By Jennifer R Jones | Posted on August 11, 2007 10:43 PM
The New Musical Based On John Waters' Movie Cry-Baby Will Soon Makes Its Broadway Debut With Previews Beginning March 2008 And Its Official Opening In April
John Waters Movie "Cry-Baby" Will Come To Broadway
The last time a John Waters movie was made into a musical, it made a tremendous splash on Broadway and went on to spawn a successful movie that is still raking in the bucks. So no doubt that the producers of Cry-Baby, the new musical based on Waters' 1990 movie of the same name, are hoping to meet with similar success.
A send-up of old Elvis films and other "bad boy" flicks of the '50s, Cry-Baby starred Johnny Depp as a juvenile delinquent who falls for the classic good girl. The musical version, which has a book by Hairspray scribes Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell, is expected to start previews on Broadway in March 2008, with an April opening.
