Cry Baby guarantees laughter
Cry-Baby
Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan
Music by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger
Based on the 1990 John Waters movie
A Theatre Kraken production directed by Don Fex
The opening scene features a character being wheeled around in an iron lung expressing his regret that he didn’t have his polio shot, while the ensemble prepares for theirs, in a bouncy number called The Anti-Polio Picnic.