Cry-Baby (musical)

Cry-Baby (musical)
Cry-Baby
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Music Adam Schlesinger
Lyrics David Javerbaum
Book Mark O'Donnell
Thomas Meehan
Basis 1990 film by John Waters, Cry-Baby
Productions 2007 San Diego
2008 Broadway

Cry-Baby is a musical based on the 1990 John Waters movie of the same name. The music is by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger, and the book is by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan. O'Donnell and Meehan also adapted Waters' film Hairspray for the musical stage.[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 lowlives.

Contents

Production

The musical premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California on November 18, 2007 and ran through December 16. Previews began on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on March 15, 2008, with an official opening on April 24, 2008.[2] Directed by Mark Brokaw with choreography by Rob Ashford, the cast featured Harriet Harris and James Snyder as "Cry-Baby".

The Broadway production closed following the matinée performance on June 22. The show played 45 previews and 68 performances.[3]

Subsequent activities

According to David Javerbaum, he is revising the musical. The revised version is expected to be produced at the New Line Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri in early 2012. It will have a "smaller band, reduced to six pieces, and a smaller cast of 16."[4]

Cast

  • Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker - James Snyder
  • Allison Vernon-Williams - Elizabeth Stanley
  • Mrs. Vernon-Williams - Harriet Harris
  • Dupree - Chester Gregory II
  • Baldwin - Christopher J. Hanke
  • Pepper Walker - Carly Jibson
  • Wanda Woodward - Lacey Kohl
  • Mona Malnorowski, a/k/a/ Hatchet-Face - Tory Ross (replaced Courtney Balan (out due to injury) in previews)
  • Lenora - Alli Mauzey
  • Judge Stone - Richard Poe

Musical numbers

Act I
  • "The Anti-Polio Picnic" - Mrs. Vernon-Williams, Allison, Baldwin, Ensemble
  • "Watch Your Ass" - Pepper, Wanda, Hatchet-Face, Dupree, Cry-Baby, Ensemble
  • "I'm Infected" - Allison, Cry-Baby, Ensemble
  • "Squeaky Clean" - Baldwin, The Whiffles
  • "Nobody Gets Me" - Cry-Baby, Pepper, Wanda, Hatchet-Face, Ensemble
  • "Nobody Gets Me (reprise)" - Allison
  • "Jukebox Jamboree" - Dupree
  • "A Whole Lot Worse" - Pepper, Wanda, Hatchet-Face
  • "Screw Loose" - Lenora
  • "Baby Baby Baby Baby Baby (Baby Baby)" - Cry-Baby, Allison, Ensemble
  • "Girl, Can I Kiss You...?" - Cry-Baby, Allison, Ensemble
  • "I'm Infected (Reprise)" - Allison, Cry-Baby
  • "You Can't Beat the System" - Company
Act II
  • "Misery, Agony, Helplessness, Hopelessness, Heartache and Woe" - Allison, Cry-Baby, Dupree, Pepper, Wanda, Hatchet-Face, Mrs. Vernon-Williams, Ensemble
  • "All in My Head" - Baldwin, Lenora, Ensemble
  • "Jailyard Jubilee" - Dupree, Ensemble
  • "A Little Upset" - Cry-Baby, Dupree, Allison, Ensemble
  • "I Did Something Wrong...Once" - Mrs. Vernon-Williams
  • "Thanks for the Nifty Country!" - Baldwin, The Whiffles
  • "This Amazing Offer" - Baldwin, The Whiffles
  • "Do That Again" - Cry-Baby, Allison
  • "Nothing Bad's Ever Gonna Happen Again" - Company

Critical response

Cry-Baby received mixed reviews. Terry Teachout, in the Wall Street Journal, wrote that "the new John Waters musical, is campy, cynical, totally insincere and fabulously well crafted. And funny. Madly, outrageously funny."[5] Similarly, Newsday offered that the musical is "pleasantly demented and - deep in the sweet darkness of its loopy heart - more true to the cheerful subversion of a John Waters movie than its sentimental big sister Hairspray.[6]

On the other hand, Ben Brantley, in the New York Times, wrote that the show is "without flavor: sweet, sour, salty, putrid or otherwise. This show in search of an identity has all the saliva-stirring properties of week-old pre-chewed gum.... Mr. Ashford brings his customary gymnastic vigor to the choreography: lots of revved-up jumping jacks, push-ups and leg lifts, usually led by a trio of athletic muscle boys."[7] Variety added that "watered-down Waters has yielded a flavorless Broadway musical that revels in its down-and-dirtiness yet remains stubbornly synthetic. There's a lot of talent, sass and sweat onstage, particularly in the dance department, plus a sprinkling of wit in the show's good-natured vulgarity. But somehow, it never quite ignites."[8] The New York Sun opined that O'Donnell and Meehan "had far more success with another retro-themed Waters adaptation, Hairspray.... Cry-Baby is content to stay in the shallow end and focus on a standard wrong-side-of-the-tracks tale.... But rather than supply a jolt of not-too-outsider-energy, [the songwriters] have instead coasted on their magpie skills, tossing out an undistinguished stream of pastiche numbers. The lyrics occasionally have a welcome crispness.... The songs themselves, however, are as generic as the lyrics are pointed: It's the first time I can recall forgetting a show's melodies before they were even finished."[1]

USA Today wrote "The rockabilly-inspired numbers that David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger have crafted for Cry-Baby aren't as ambitious or infectious [as Hairspray], but the show is similarly good-hearted, and has more of a Waters edge. Javerbaum and Schlesinger's lyrics and Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan's book are both more inventively crass and less snarky than those of other contemporary musical winkfests; you get the sense that these writers share Waters' affection for his goofy subjects."[9]

Awards and nominations

Original Broadway production

Year Award Ceremony Category Nominee Result
2008 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Choreography Rob Ashford Won
Drama League Award Distinguished Production of a Musical Nominated
Distinguished Performance Harriet Harris Nominated
James Snyder Nominated
Alli Mauzey Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding New Broadway Musical Nominated
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Harriet Harris Nominated
Outstanding Choreographer Rob Ashford Won
Tony Award Best Musical Nominated
Best Book of a Musical Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan Nominated
Best Original Score David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger Nominated
Best Choreography Rob Ashford Nominated

References

  1. ^ a b Grode, Eric. NY Sun review of April 28, 2008
  2. ^ playbill article, March 15, 2008, "Cry-Baby Sheds Its First Tear on Broadway March 15"
  3. ^ Broadway.com article, June 18, 2008, "Cry-Baby to End Broadway Run on 6/22"
  4. ^ Hetrick, Adam.Revised Cry-Baby and To Die For Musical on Tony Nominee David Javerbaum's Plate" playbill.com, December 18, 2010
  5. ^ reviewWall Street Journal, April 25, 2008
  6. ^ Winer, Linda.reviewNewsday, April 25, 2008
  7. ^ Brantley, Ben."Swivel-Hipped Rebel and Restless Virgin Meet Cute" New York Times, April 25, 2008
  8. ^ Rooney, David.reviewVariety, April 24, 2008
  9. ^ Gardner, Elysa.reviewUSA Today, April 24, 2008

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