Coming Up Harvey by Jason Gay
"Queen needs makeup!" Harvey Fierstein said. It was late afternoon on Monday, August 5, and Mr. Fierstein, primed to return to Broadway in heels upon a hot pink, giddy steamroller—the musical version of John Waters’ Hairspray—sat before a mirror in a windowless white studio in the West Village, his face under construction for yet another magazine photo shoot. Dressed in a flowered orange smock and sandals, his…