Jaystarr's 10/10 Report on CRY-BABY (with stage door photos) — Page 2

I have no idea? Yeah- the Playbill that I got has a leaftlet of Tory Ross as Hackett Face.
Yup. I saw the show yesterday 5/18 3 pm matinee-burnsy & brettystar can attest to that!

J*

great review as always my fellow madonna lover XXXxx

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Another fantastic review, jay ! And I'm glad we once again agree, more or less ! Though, I have to say it brought back painful memories, since it was one of my most unfortunate experiences in a theater ! The choreography, Spencer, Ali, Christopher and Carly are wonderful, but what can they do with no score, no book, no direction and a lead that comes BLAND, even in the pictures with you ! I went with low expectations and I was still dissapointed. And of course, this is only my opinion, I'm glad there are people who like it, because the talented cast deserves that. But NO, nobody can convince me that it deserved a Best Musical nomination over Catered Affair or EVEN Young Frankenstein

Updated On: 5/19/08 at 07:50 PM

Yeah~I dont know what happened to the juicy HX page...it was probably deemed as inappropriate. Well at least my whole thread was not deleted- thanks mod! just those inappropriate photos...

but for those who missed.. here's the link to...

Ooooooh, Baby!
HX Magazine swimsuit edition graced by :

Marty Lawson:
http://www.hx.com/index.cfm

Spencer Liff:
http://64.78.33.181/features/index.cfm?id=4197&cat=1&page=features&sub_page=weekly

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Travis- Thank you for the nice compliment! and pls do go see the show, you might like it.

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Panos- Yes! I am like you.. I enjoyed some aspects of the show, but overall~ as a musical..I thought it was not that great! You know when I saw the show ..I was with two guys who like the show a lot..I did explain it to them as to why? and they explained me as to why they like it...and I guess..people have different taste.

My major complain is the book~I thought they lost some of the John Waters' oddities in the movie like:

1. drinking tears from the glass... ew! but soo John Waters.

2. Hackett face having surgery to be beautiful at the end. The movie is more true~ to the character- like when she rescued Cry-Baby..she burst out of the movie
screen and every inmate yelled...bec. they saw her f** up face..its so funny! like she said..she has character! The musical is just an actress with over the top make up and she keeps yelling like --Upper A**!

Also Cry-Baby's character- you cant really feel sympathy towards him, in the musical...unlike Hairspray-where you have this overweight girl who does not care what everyone thinks about her...you can really feel for the character. The movie Cry-baby was good bec. of Johnny Depp, and also Allison's transformation into a bad character- she was just basically removing her clothes~from 50's ballroom gown to sexy undergarments- what an awful idea! unlike Amy Locane in the movie- there's something WILD about her,,,you know she is clean cut, but really bad inside. Unfortunately I did not feel the same way with Elizabeth Stanley-btw she is very pretty in person. I just see her as a pretty face that cannot really be bad at all. I was not convinced at all.

J*

Updated On: 5/19/08 at 08:40 PM

Great Review

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Thanks burnsy!

J*

Jay I was at the same show as you! I saw you at stagedoor and I was waiting for you to post a review! =)

That OUT Mag shot is Hot.

But if you read the article it says something to the effect, sorry stage door gay johnnies, James Snyder has a girlfriend in CA.
Guess it was written before the reviews and threads came out and we don't care at all about him, but the dancers make us drool.

Updated On: 5/20/08 at 11:08 PM

Great as usual Jay*

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