The musical adaptation of John Waters' 1990 film Cry-Baby is aiming for Broadway next spring. According to a season preview announcement, the show will begin previews in March 2008 and open in April after a world-premiere production at La Jolla Playhouse this fall. Cry-Baby will be directed by Mark Brokaw and choreographed by Rob Ashford; no casting has been announced.
The songwriting team of Adam Schlesinger bassist /songwriter for Fountains of Wayne and David Javerbaum Emmy Award-winning writer/producer of The Daily Show will make their Broadway debut with Cry-Baby, which features a book by Hairspray librettists Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan
In this send-up of teen melodramas set in Baltimore in 1954, everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism, and Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker originally played on film by Johnny Depp is the baddest boy in town. He's a rebel with a cause—truth, justice and the pursuit of rock 'n' roll—and when he falls for a good girl, this square little suburb is sure to rock around the clock.
The La Jolla Playhouse production of Cry-Baby is set to run November 6-December 16.
