Hairspray Page #3

Why don't you notice me at school?

Mm-hmm.

# Ooh #

Hey, that was our very own Link Larkin

singin' It Takes Two.

And I'm Motormouth Maybelle remindin'...

the last Tuesday of this month's

your rhythm and blues day.

That's right! Negro Day

will be comin' your way.

So don't-uh... Uh... Over here.

Thank you.

So, catch all the croonin'

when y'all set and tune in.

Thank you, Motormouth.

And now it's time to...

Owner's coming. He'll call

my mother again, let's go.

...very own fun-lovin'...

Hey!

Come on up here, Brenda.

What?

Brenda will be taking a leave of absence

from the show.

How long you gonna be gone, Brenda?

Just nine months.

Seems like we'll have an opening

here on the show for a girl...

just as fun-lovin' but maybe

not quite as freewheelin'.

Wanna be one-a

the nicest kids in town?

Cut school tomorrow and come down

to station WYZT to audition.

- No.

- But, Ma.

Don't test me, Tracy Turnblad.

My diet pill's wearin' off.

But come on.

No one is auditioning for

anything in this household.

But why not? Why not?!

Because dancing is not your future.

One day you're gonna own

Edna's Occidental Laundry.

I don't wanna be a laundress.

I wanna be famous!

Look, if you wanna be famous...

learn how to take blood

outta car upholstery.

That's a skill you can take right to the bank.

- Hey, hey. What's all this ruckus in here?

- Not a word.

Daddy, tomorrow I'm auditioning

to dance on a Tv show.

- No, she is not.

- You are?

First the hair, now this?

But all the kids are battin' up

their hair now, hon.

You're no help.

It's "ratting," Daddy.

And our first lady,

Jacqueline Kennedy, does it.

I don't believe that.

What do you mean,

you don't believe that?!

- I don't.

- How else would it look that way?

I believe that it is naturally stiff.

She doesn't understand anything.

- Dancing on that show is my dream.

- I know.

Just because she wouldn't know

a dream if it bit her on the nose.

Well, I have information for you, missy.

I once had a dream that I owned

a coin-operated laundromat...

and I came down from that cloud

real quickly, I'll tell you that.

No!

- Oh, Wilbur.

- Fine! I'm going to my room!

She thinks I'm bein' mean

but I'm not. Those Tv people...

they don't pick people like Tracy,

or girls like us.

They're gonna hurt her, Wilbur.

I'll talk to her.

Ooh.

'K. Talk to her.

I'll talk to her.

Don't you worry.

OK.

What?

Tracy, this Tv thing.

You really want it?

With all my heart.

Then you go for it!

This is America, babe.

You gotta think big to be big.

Big ain't the problem

in this family, Wilbur.

You follow your dream.

Mine came true, and now I have the most

precious thing in the world.

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