If any actress has the chops to take on a role formerly played by Ruth Brown and Queen Latifah, it's Jennifer Hudson. That's probably exactly why Hudson was cast in Hairspray Live! as Motormouth ...

Motormouth Maybelle is a role in Hairspray, a musical that opened Broadway in 2002. Winner of eight Tony(R) Awards including Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Direction and Best Male and Female ...

Deidre Lang as Motormouth Maybelle and company in Hairspray. Credit: Photo by Jeremy Daniel More than 20 years after it first premiered on Broadway, the new North American tour of Hairspray arrives at ...

MusicalFare presents Hairspray at Shea’s 710 Theatre, located at 710 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202 (corner of Main Street and Tupper). The show stars Stevie Lou Kemp (Tracy Turnblad), Louis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ephraim Sykes as Seaweed J. Stubbs, Jennifer Hudson as Motormouth Maybelle, Martin Short as Wilbur Turnblad, Dove Cameron as Amber ...

NBC has shared first look photos featuring the star-studded cast of HAIRSPRAY LIVE!, airing Wednesday, Dec. 7 on NBC. Below, check out photos of Ariana Grande (Penny Pingleton), Jennifer Hudson ...

Being on stage is in Sandie Lee’s DNA. Performing since she was four, she comes from a long line of singers and dancers. Lee brings her talents and acting chops to Boston next week as Motormouth ...

Jennifer Hudson is currently starring on Broadway in The Color Purple, but this winter she’s bringing her acting and vocal talents to NBC’s production of Hairspray Live! Hudson will play Motormouth ...

It’s a good thing that “Hairspray” is just a movie because had Queen Latifah been around in the post-Jim Crow era ’60s, it might have been a tad difficult for her to endure some of the discrimination ...

Jennifer Hudson and Harvey Fierstein have joined the cast of "Hairspray Live!," the fifth installment in NBC's live-musical effort. Hudson, who won an Oscar for "Dreamgirls" when it left Broadway for ...

Queen Latifah turned to her mother for inspiration in her role as Motormouth Maybelle in the big-screen remake of “Hairspray,” which opens in theaters on Friday. “My mom was a high school teacher,” ...