Cry-Baby (musical)

*Cry-Baby*
Cry-Baby
Music	Adam Schlesinger
Lyrics	David Javerbaum
Book	Mark O'Donnell; Thomas Meehan;
Basis	Cry-Baby ; by John Waters
Productions	2007 La Jolla Playhouse; 2008 Broadway; 2012 St. Louis; 2015 Melbourne; 2018 Sydney; 2019 Wellington; 2020 Rackheath;

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.^[1]

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.

^ "John Waters's 'Cry-Baby' on Broadway". The Sun. April 25, 2008. Archived from the original on May 25, 2018.

[1] "John Waters's 'Cry-Baby' on Broadway". The Sun. April 25, 2008. Archived from the original on May 25, 2018.

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