NBC Looking To John Waters Classic For Next Live Musical

The next live musical produced by NBC looks to be simply Divine.

Entertainment Weekly reports network head Robert Greenblatt said on the Television Critics Association press tour that he'seyeing the musical version of "Hairspray" for next December.

The John Waters original was filmed in Baltimore and set in 1962, and hit theaters in 1988. Besides Divine as mom Edna Turnblad, the cast included Ricki Lake, Jerry Stiller and Debbie Harry. The musical went to Broadway in 2002, and that was adapted into the 2007 film starring John Travolta as Edna alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, James Marsden and Christopher Walken.

Greenblatt, however, said producers aren't necessarily trying to reunite the 2007 cast.

“I don’t think we’re going to try to replicate the movie. We want to do a new version of it," he said. “Sure, we’d take John Travolta. He did it. I don’t think that would be a possibility, but we’d be thrilled to have John Travolta.”

The take on "Hairspray" would be the third such live musical produced by NBC in as many years, following productions of "Peter Pan" and "The Wiz."