Cry-Baby (musical)

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.

Cry-Baby
MusicAdam Schlesinger
LyricsDavid Javerbaum
Book
  • Mark O'Donnell
  • Thomas Meehan
BasisCry-Baby
by John Waters
Productions
  • 2007 San Diego
  • 2008 Broadway
  • 2012 St. Louis
  • 2015 Melbourne
  • 2018 Sydney
  • 2019 Wellington
  • 2020 Rackheath

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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