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 ...

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

This is especially true of Cry-Baby himself. Depp, who leant into the kitschy vibe and managed to make the character edgy and sensitive, is an impossibly cool act to follow, but this musical seems ...

Described as “Romeo and Juliet” meets “High School Hellcats”, this subversive musical directed by Mehmet Ergen, Artistic Director of Arcola Theatre, promises a toe-tapping, boundary-breaking good time ...

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 3/5 ...

But Cry-Baby and its older sister Hairspray (1988, also notably turned into a musical) marked a shift from the confrontational to the affectionate in his oeuvre. There’s still sly spikiness just ...

But Cry-Baby and its older sister Hairspray (1988, also notably turned into a musical) marked a shift from the confrontational to the affectionate in his oeuvre. There’s still sly spikiness just under ...