Two love-struck dreamers fall in love during the height of the hair-metal scene as they navigate the seedy world of drugs mullets & stripping while at a club on the Sunset Strip in this adaptation of the hit off-Broadway musical Chris D& Arienzo adapts his own stage book with HAIRSPRAY&S Adam Shankman handling direction & choreography duties Tom Cruise Russell Brand Alec Baldwin & Julianne Hough head up the cast alongside Diego Boneta who portrays the lead character Drew Boley