Playbill magazine reports that the creators of the Tony-award winning musical HAIRSPRAY are joining forces with CATCH ME IF YOU CAN director Steven Spielberg to make a new musical based on Spielberg's 2002 DreamWorks picture. Details are just starting to emerge about the project but according to the site a deal was struck between the two sides just last week.

Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman won a Tony last night for Best Score for their first Broadway musical, an adaptation of John Waters movie HAIRSPRAY. Spielberg's movie grossed more than $160 million at the box office and received Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score and Best Supporting Actor.



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It'd be interesting to see if it does actually get done. Sounds a little bizarre. I hope DiCaprio isn't in it though, because that would screw up any positive things about the play. He was okay in Catch Me If You Can, but I can't stand him in general. He screwed up Titanic and Romeo and Juliet.

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Let Christopher Walken aka Jesus star in it, and I'm in FULL SUPPORT!

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