Hairspray (2002 album) Hairspray (2002 album) Hairspray: Original Broadway Cast Recording is the cast album for the 2002 musical "Hairspray". The show is an adaptation of the 1988 film of the same name. It features performances from the show's cast, which includes Harvey Fierstein, Linda Hart, Dick Latessa, Kerry Butler, Clarke Thorell, Mary Bond Davis, Laura Bell Bundy, Matthew Morrison, Corey Reynolds, and Marissa Jaret Winokur as the lead character of Tracy Turnblad. The cast recording earned the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. The cast recording contains seventeen songs from the musical, with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by
Ricki Tarr Ricki Tarr Ricki Tarr is a fictional character created by John le Carré, and is a major figure in le Carré's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy". Ricki Tarr was a field agent, a member of "scalphunters", a section used when a bit of physical derring-do might be called for by the Circus, based at a fictitious Brixton laundry and jokingly described as "cosh and carry" by Smiley. He is sent on a mission to Hong Kong to run the rule over a Russian potential blackmail target who, when he gets there, Tarr realizes is a "Moscow Centre trained hood" engaged in