Never try to beat actress Carolyn Cole in a klutzy-daze competition. Early on in Signature Theatre's zesty, aerosol-buoyant "Hairspray," Cole's character, Tracy Turnblad, a full-figured 1960s teenager with audacious dreams, bumps into a boy she has a crush on. For an enjoyably drawn-out series of beats, the young woman in the plaid skirt and Peter-Pan-collared blouse looks stunned. Her eyes glaze over; she sways; she…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:14PM on December 19, 2011