Cry Baby Reviews - YIKES! — Page 3

Holy Crap if word of mouth was pretty dismissive you know its a disaster lol

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I agree with you, bwayguy, but if the Word of Mouth review is bad... Yikes! I thought they were, um, encouraged to like everything?

Best part of Word of Mouth:

The chick who played Allison... didn't like her.

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The chick who played Allison....didn't like her.

Both the leads need to be replaced.


Best word of mouth quotes since the Raul lip licking incident.

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Updated On: 4/24/08 at 08:16 PM

Variety is up - Mixed to Negative


"As the title character memorably told his good-girl-gone-bad sweetheart in John Waters' 1990 movie, "You got it, Allison. You got it raw." But one problem for "Cry-Baby" was that the underground trashmeister's rebel rawness was diluted into benign, kitschy satire in his attempt to follow "Hairspray" with a further step toward the mainstream. So it's perhaps not surprising that watered-down Waters has yielded a flavorless Broadway musical that revels in its down-and-dirtiness yet remains stubbornly synthetic. There's a lot of talent, sass and sweat onstage, particularly in the dance department, plus a sprinkling of wit in the show's good-natured vulgarity. But somehow, it never quite ignites."

"But without a central romance that cooks, the show's pleasures evaporate as they unfold. Javerbaum and Schlesinger angle to send the audience out on a high with the good-time closer "Nothing Bad's Ever Gonna Happen Again," but unlike "Hairspray," where "You Can't Stop the Beat" was a mandate to celebrate, we don't care enough about anyone onstage in "Cry-Baby" to share their joy."

"Inevitable as they are, the comparisons to the previous Broadway musical fashioned from a Waters film are secondary to the grab bag of elements in "Cry-Baby" that recall everything from "Grease" and "Little Shop of Horrors" to "All Shook Up" and "The Wedding Singer." Whatever its inspirations, this vanilla show lacks a fresh identity of its own."







Variety - Crybaby

Updated On: 4/24/08 at 08:34 PM

Yeah, love, the Variety review I had already put up.

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Associated Press - Negative

An insistently cartoonish `Cry-Baby' works hard at trying to entertain

NEW YORK (AP) - Can we shed a tear for Cry-Baby, a strenuous, insistently cartoonish stage adaptation of John Waters' cinematic trash fest? Well, maybe one or two.

The laborious musical that opened Thursday at Broadway's Marquis Theatre works hard at trying to entertain, never relaxing for a moment as it tells a familiar story: the
romance between a good girl and a bad boy, set against the backdrop of 1950s social mores and mortality.

AP

No, cause at least some of the reviews were mixed.

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So, what happened as far as Variety is concerned between La Jolla and Broadway?

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Snipe if you like about Mermaid. The numbers tell the story of success.

Yes, and AP only happens to run around the world and is the biggest name in global news.

What the hell do they know?

I have never been so undecided about whether to see a show or not in my life. I will if I can get a good seat - here's hoping the premiums get released as cheaper seats by mid May.

I am glad to see some positive reviews for this show. It annoys me how so many people want to compare it to Hairspray. They are two different films so why would you not expect two different shows?

Re the two leads, is it possible that the producers would replace them? The general consensus seems to be that they aren't very good and from the sounds of things if they were replaced then maybe the show would be a lot better?

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I am glad to see some positive reviews for this show.

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