Grease Gets a Makeover in Cry-Baby
May 16, 2008 – 2:01 amCry-Baby has been a sensation since it first came to light and every time it comes to stage, the show’s popularity rises even more. Deriving its central idea from Grease, Cry-Baby has given the all time favorite musical a make-over and made it even more admirable than before.
Cry-Baby is a musical based on the 1990 John Waters movie of the same name. The music is written by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger and the book is by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan. The show premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego on November 18, 2007 and ran through December 16. A Broadway production of Cry-Baby will began previews at the Marquis Theatre on March 15, 2008, with an opening on April 24.
Directed by Mark Brokaw with choreography by Rob Ashford, Cry-Baby is the second of Waters’ films to be adapted for the stage as a musical comedy, the first being Hairspray.
Synopsis
Treading the lines of Grease, Cry-Baby details the story of Wade Walker, Baltimore’s resident greaser/Drape, and his gang. Walker is the Cry-Baby and his group consists of disfigured Hatchet-Face Malnorowski, pregnant sister Pepper, Hatchet’s boyfriend Milton Hackett and sexually-active Wanda Woodward. They are feared by all Baltimore residents. One day after school, after getting an intense polio vaccine, Cry-Baby falls in love with Allison Vernon-Williams, a pretty but simple/Square girl, equally in love with him. Allison’s grandmother and boyfriend Baldwin are disgusted by this and try to keep them away.
How Wade and Allison manage to bring the Drapes and Squares together forms the plot of Cry-Baby.
Cry-Baby, the film
Cry-Baby was released in April 1990 and was essentially a parody teen musicals such as Grease, of Elvis Presley movies and of 1950s ‘juvenile delinquent’ movies. Johnny Depp played the lead, a 1950s teen rebel Wade ‘Cry-Baby’ Walker.
Cry-Baby did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release but has subsequently become a cult movie.
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The ever popular teen movie, Cry-Baby, is now a major Broadway musical and promises to be every bit as entertaining. If you loved the film, you will love the theater version even more. So get ready to dance to the tunes of Cry-Baby because Wade and Allison are coming to a theater near you!
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