Hairspray Live! is event television at its sloppy finest

The nonsensical but utterly magical trend of major broadcast networks producing expensive and messy live musicals continued last night with NBC’s production of Hairspray. Thank goodness!This production was based on the 2002 Broadway musical, which is based on the 1988 John Waters film (the definition of a cult classic), but Hairspray was most recently experienced by a broad audience in the summer of 2007 as Zac Efron’s post-High School Musical star vehicle. That film adaptation, dire