Sun coverage: 'Cry-Baby'

Boohoo! 'Cry-Baby' musical to close

This week, when the Broadway cast of Cry-Baby launches into its second-act number "Misery, Agony, Helplessness, Hopelessness, Heartache and Woe,"the rendition may be particularly heartfelt. It was announced yesterday that the $12.5 million production will close after Sunday's matinee.

Jumping for joy as 'Cry-Baby' gets four Tony nods

Cry-Baby, the exuberant song-and-dance spectacle inspired by Baltimore bad-boy John Waters, was nominated for four Tony Awards yesterday - including the most important prize, best musical.

Waters parties like it's 1954

Only at the cast party for a Broadway musical inspired by John Waters would you find impeccably coifed and gowned drag queens rubbing shoulders with movie stars. Sometimes you could even tell them apart.

'Cry-Baby' has flash, wit, but no heart

Opportunity knocked last night at the door of the Marquis Theatre, where Cry-Baby is making its Broadway debut. But nobody answered.

What's next for John Waters? Just imagine.

Hand that man a crown. John Waters, Baltimore's venerable Filth Elder, is extending his reign over Broadway. On Thursday, Waters will be represented by not one, but two Broadway musicals based on his movies.

Theater Review

Lots of pizazz - and a puzzle - in 'Cry-Baby'

Cry-Baby the musical is tantalizingly, teasingly, heartbreakingly close to success. That makes it all the more frustrating to see success receding in the distance, marching out of Southern California in search of someplace else to settle down.

At debut, secrets and brie

As Ricki Lake can testify, once you join John Waters' wonderfully warped artistic family, you're part of it forever.

Waters' next act

During his misspent youth, John Waters often joked that his future lay behind barbed wire and guard towers.

Tailoring the '50s for 'Cry-Baby'

This spring, Catherine Zuber picked up her third back-to-back Tony Award for costume design. By any tape measure, that makes her a star in the theater world. But she, nonetheless, was on pins and needles last week, anticipating the opening of her newest project, Cry-Baby.