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 ...

Twenty-year-old Melanie Martinez's debut album Cry Baby tackles childhood themes but turns them into musical metaphors for darker feelings surrounding broken family and romantic relationships.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...