Adam Shankman, director and choreographer from the film. Pursuing the success with the Broadway musical of your same name, which won eight Tony Awards in 2003, New Line Cinema, who owned the rights for the 1988 John Waters film upon which the phase musical is based, grew to become thinking about adapting the stage demonstrate to be a musical film.G

The Baltimore film commission made a major Participate in to try to have us come there. We requested the dilemma 'Does one have significant audio levels?' and, uh, unfortunately the answer was no. When you are doing a movie musical you would like major seem stages to create major sets, so simply because Baltimore didn't have any large sets we shot