CRY-BABy

Broadway, Marquis Theatre, 2008

Cry-Baby is a musical based on the 1990 John Waters film of the same name. With music by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger, and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, 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.