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The musical Hairspray

Camp and wacky musical, adapted from the even camper and wackier 1988 John Waters movie. The film bellyflopped on release but has since built a cult audience drawn to its tale of teen angst in 1962 Baltimore (the one on the American Eastern Seaboard, rather than overlooking Sherkin Island). From Monday, BGE Theatre, Dublin

The gig Rufus Wainwright

Pianoman Wainwright has stepped away from pop to focus on operas, a move partly motivated by the commercial underperformance — as he perceived it — of his Mark Ronson-produced 2012 album Out of the Game. But he’s back for a trek down memory lane with a show celebrating his first two albums, 1998’s self-titled debut and its rhapsodic 2002 followup, Poses. Monday, Cork Opera House, Tuesday, NCH Dublin

The movie Yellow Submarine

So weird it freaked even the hippies a little, this Beatles animated vehicle from 1968 is re-released to mark its 50th anniversary. The animation is sub-Monty Python and the story makes no sense. The tunes aren’t terrible, either. Sunday, Palais, Galway