Given that Hairspray's plot focuses heavily on dance, choreography became a large aim for Shankman, who hired 4 assistant choreographers, Jamal Sims, Anne Fletcher, and Zach Woodlee, and place both of those his acting cast and more than 100 and fifty dancers as a result of two months of rehearsals. https://thejillist.com/story7207740/details-fiction-and-goth-juice-hairspray