Summary of the musical Hairspray :
We are in 1962 in Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad, a chubby teenager, dreams of only one thing: to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a dance program on local television. When Tracy joins the show, she becomes an overnight celebrity. She meets a group of black dancers and campaigns for the show to accept people of color on the show. The United States is in the midst of social upheaval…