The run closed June 22, 2008
- Opened
- April 24, 2008
- Closed
- June 22, 2008
- Performances
- 68
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Marquis Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 254th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it26 named
Christopher J Hanke
Carly Jibson
Cameron Adams
Ashley Amber
Nick Blaemire
Michael Buchanan
Eric L Christian
Stacey Todd Holt
Laura Jordan
Lacey Kohl
Marty Lawson
Mayumi Miguel
Eric Sciotto
Peter Matthew Smith
Allison Spratt
Charlie Sutton
Andrew C Call
Sara Sheperd
8 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 18 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters10 roles recorded
James Snyder Wade "Crybaby" Walker
Elizabeth Stanley Allison Vernon-Williams
Harriet Sansom Harris Mrs. Vernon-Williams
Christopher Hanke Baldwin
Alli Mauzey Lenora Frigid
Chester Gregory Dupree
Carly Jibson Pepper
Lacey Kohl Wanda
Ryan Silverman Skippy Wagstaff
Tory Ross Mona
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Creative team
- Director
- Mark Brokaw
- Choreographer
- Rob Ashford
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 4 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Cry-Baby is a musical based on the 1990 John Waters film of the same name. The music is by Adam Schlesinger, lyrics by David Javerbaum and the book is by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, who had previously done the book for the musical Hairspray, also based on a John Waters film of the same name. 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 rebel outcasts.
Lisa Gajda, one of our swings, received the Gypsy Robe. Cry-Baby is her 10th Broadway show. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2007 To May 2008 Viagas Robert 4th Annual Ed, p. 95
- for every successful Little Shop of Horrors, there is a box office failure like Cry-Baby. Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 863
- as I injured my hamstring during the first week of rehearsals, and took over my full track when I was Pepper, then went on for Pepper (after I had become Hatchet-Face) when Carly caught the “Cry-Baby Crud” that we keep giving to each other because we have a song in which we all make out with one another. As of print ti… The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2007 To May 2008 Viagas Robert 4th Annual Ed, p. 96
- World Premiere of Cry-Baby Produced by La Jolla Playhouse The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2008 May 2009 Fifth Robert Viagas 5th Annual, p. 72
- Omigod You Guys! Year II: Shows With Pre-Teen, Teenage or Barely Post-Teen Girls As Lead or Important Characters (Though Not Always Played By Teens): August: Osage County, The Color Purple, Cry-Baby, Grease, Grey Gardens, Gypsy, Hairspray, Legally Blonde, Les Misérables, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Spelling Bee,… The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2007 To May 2008 Viagas Robert 4th Annual Ed, p. 13
- Teen Sex Leads to Trouble: August: Osage County, Cry-Baby, Equus, Grease, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia!, Spring Awakening, West Side Story. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2008 May 2009 Fifth Robert Viagas 5th Annual, p. 13
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What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Cry-Baby at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.