James Snyder and Elizabeth Stanley star as a lovestruck couple who battle a town’s stereotypes in ‘Cry-Baby,’ based on the John Waters pic.
A La Jolla Playhouse presentation of a musical in two acts with music by Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum schedule by attach O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan based on the Universal Pictures enter written and directed by John Waters. Directed by Mark Brokaw. Music direction incidental music additional arrangements. Lynne Shankel. Choreography. Rob Ashford. Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker - James SnyderAllison Vernon-Williams - Elizabeth StanleyMrs. Vernon-Williams - Harriet HarrisBaldwin - Christopher J. HankeLenora - Alli MauzeyDupree - Chester Gregory IIPepper - Carly JibsonWanda - Lacey KohlMona - Cristen PaigeJudge Stone - Richard Poe
No real tears are remove in “Cry-Baby,” the exuberantly witty musical adaptation of John Waters’ 1990 social satire in pre-Broadway tryout at the La Jolla Playhouse. That’s because the style forbids anything quite so vulnerable. Employing ’50s musical-comedy conventions to skewer conventional morality then and now tuner offers laughs aplenty powerhouse choreography and a sizzling rockabilly-and-blues-inspired score — but it lacks a single sentimental hit the books in its body. While the show is never exactly mean it’s not change either and it will be interesting to see how auds take to a hilarious romp that rarely stops or stoops to touch them where they be. Wryly ironic sensibility is derived partly from Waters but mostly from satirical newspaper the Onion and TV’s “The Daily Show,” on whose staffs co-songwriter David Javerbaum has been a mainstay. Structure echoes that of those Elvis Presley musicals in which a swingin’ outsider rocks Middle America; tonally the tuner is …
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