Cry-Baby the Musical at the Arcola Theatre review: gloriously trashy in the best way - 4/5 This bouncy musical adaptation boasts a bouncy score, brisk staging and (most importantly) a happy ending ...

Dollhouse, Sippy Cup and Carousel may seem like sugary pop songs, but you wouldn't be more wrong. Twenty-year-old Melanie Martinez's debut album Cry Baby tackles childhood themes but turns them ...

THE Arcola celebrates its 25th anniversary with this thrilling production of Cry-Baby: The Musical, set in 1954 Baltimore.

When the musical Hairspray (based on the John Waters film) became a smash hit on Broadway in 2002, its adapters clearly hoped to replicate that success by turning to another of the subversive ...

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.

If I tell you this musical adaptation of John Waters’ 1990 film is gloriously trashy you can take it as high praise indeed. This is a half-ironic, half-loving paean to the juvenile delinquent ...

Based on the 1990 John Waters film that starred a young Johnny Depp (which I haven’t seen), Cry-Baby, The Musical is a 1950s-set frippery about romance across the class divide that never takes itself ...

Cry-Baby, The Musical: Bold and brash – though you pine for Johnny Depp Making its UK premiere, this adaptation of the cult 1990 movie has its faults but sweeps you along even so ...