Shows · Cry-Baby
Cry-Baby
Opened 2008
68 performances
Musical, Modern
In 1954 Baltimore, squeaky-clean good girl Allison Vernon-Williams falls for Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker, a delinquent orphan from the wrong side of the tracks with a talent for shedding a single tear. Their forbidden romance ignites a war between the uptight Squares and the rebellious Drapes, complete with drag races, jailbreaks, and a climactic battle of the bands that threatens to tear the town apart.
- Music
- David Javerbaum, Adam Schlesinger
- Lyrics
- David Javerbaum, Adam Schlesinger
- Book
- Mark O'Donnell, Thomas Meehan
Productions1 on Broadway
Recordings 1 recording
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Cry-Baby matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
Cry-Baby is a musical based on the 1990 John Waters film of the same name. The music is by Adam Schlesinger, lyrics by David Javerbaum and the book is by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, who had previously done the book for the musical Hairspray, also based on a John Waters film of the same name. The musical focuses on Baltimore teenager Allison Vernon-Williams, who is drawn across the tracks from her 1954 finishing-school background into a relationship with the orphaned Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, the leader of a pack of rebel outcasts.
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