Chicago Street Theatre Presents
Cry-Baby The Musical
Written by Thomas Meehan and Mark O’Donnell
Music and Lyrics by Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum
Based on the Universal Pictures film written and directed by John Waters
Directed by Michael Glorioso
Dates & Times:
Friday, June 25, 2027 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, June 26, 2027 @ 7:30PM
Sunday, June 27, 2027 @ 2:30PM
Friday, July 2, 2027 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, July 3, 2027 @ 7:30PM
Friday, July 9, 2027 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, July 10, 2027 @ 7:30PM
Sunday, July 11, 2027 @ 2:30PM
Friday, July 16, 2027 @ 7:30PM
Saturday, July 17, 2027 @ 7:30PM
Sunday, July 18, 2027 @ 2:30PM
Location:
Chicago Street Theatre
154 W Chicago St, Valparaiso, Indiana
1950s Baltimore, the conservative squares face off against the leather-clad delinquents in this rockabilly musical.
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. Cry-Baby and the square rich girl, Allison, are star-crossed lovers at the center of this world. Fueled by hormones and the new rhythms of rock and roll, she turns her back on her squeaky clean boyfriend, Baldwin, to become a "drape" (a Baltimore juvenile delinquent) and Cry-Baby's moll. At the other end of the topsy-turvy moral meritocracy of 1954 America, Baldwin is the king of the squares and leads his close-harmony pals against the juvenile delinquents, who are ultimately arrested for arson, sending the drapes all off to prison. It's Romeo and Juliet meets High School Hellcats.
Cry-Baby features a delightfully demented book from the writers of Hairspray and a rockabilly score from the co-founder of Fountains of Wayne and the executive producer of "The Daily Show."