'Hair' apparent

(A) No other teen film heroine has enjoyed herself as much as Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) in Hairspray. She's always singing about her elation and her delight in feeling that elation. She belts out all her love: for her hometown in "Good Morning, Baltimore," for Zac Efron's sympathetic, ready-for-action Link Larkin in "I Can Hear the Bells" and for an optimistic and open-for-anything age of music and dancing in "You Can't Stop the Beat."

By Michael Sragow

July 20, 2007