May 13- 19, 2018
By Thomas Meehan & Mark O'Donnell
Music & Lyrics by Adam Schlesinger & David Javerbaum
Directed by Nik Frig
Featuring:
WADE "CRY-BABY" WALKER Marco Gutierrez |
ALLISON VERNON-WILLIAMS Samantha Farb |
MRS. CORDELIA VERNON-WILLIAMS Karen Leifheit |
DUPREE W. DUPREE Matty Pursell |
BALDWIN BRANDISH Nik Frig |
PEPPER WALKER Kat Stone |
WANDA WOODWARD Adrienne Van Horn |
MONA "HATCHET-FACE" MALNOROWSKI Dawn Cardwell |
LENORA FRIGID Cheyanne Sunken |
THE WHIFFLES Adam Tracki & Brian Steep |
ENSEMBLE
Marlee Reel | Kelly Lefler | Bella Brooker |
Greg Tullis | Ian Ellis | Bridget Lee |
Eliza Missel |
This jumping, jiving musical is based on the cult classic, 1990 John Waters film.
Cry-Baby features unforgettable songs, and an truely unique and fresh story!
It's 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism and Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He's a bad boy with a good cause – truth, justice and the pursuit of rock and roll. Cry-Baby and the square rich girl, Allison, are star-crossed lovers at the center of this world. Fueled by hormones and the new rhythms of rock and roll, she turns her back on her squeaky clean boyfriend, Baldwin, to become a "drape" (a Baltimore juvenile delinquent) and Cry-Baby's moll. At the other end of the topsy-turvy moral meritocracy of 1954 America, Baldwin is the king of the squares and leads his close-harmony pals against the juvenile delinquents, who are ultimately arrested for arson, sending the drapes all off to prison. It's Romeo and Juliet meets High School Hellcats.