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Fierstein
- In Harvey Fierstein
of John Waters’s camp film Hairspray. For his role as teen heroine Tracy Turnblad’s doting mother, Edna, Fierstein won his fourth Tony Award. He later appeared in Broadway revivals of Fiddler on the Roof, in 2005–06, and La Cage aux folles, in 2011. In addition, he wrote the librettos for…
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Grande
- In Ariana Grande: Return to acting and eternal sunshine
…live production of the musical Hairspray (2016), in which she played the part of Penny Pingleton. In 2021, however, she became a coach on the televised singing competition The Voice. That same year she acted in the film Don’t Look Up, a satiric science-fiction comedy costarring Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep,…
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