Adam Epstein, a producer for Hair Spray, died at the age of 49.Adam passed away today at Adventist Health Hospital in Glendale, Arizona. He had been sick with brain cancer for a short time.

The Hollywood Reporter was the first to write about it.Amadeus and The Crucible were brought back to life by him, and The Wedding Singer and Cry-Baby were turned into movies.

Adam got sick while filming his 2021 podcast, Dirty Moderate With Adam Epstein. When he worked with Margo Lion as a co-producer on the first Broadway show of Hairspray in 2002, he was only 28 years old.

Harvey Fierstein played Edna Turnblad in the first show. More than 2,600 performances of Hairspray took place between 2005 and 2009.