Baltimore, 1954. With the city's teens split between the refined Squares and the rebellious Drapes, Cry-Baby, an effortlessly cool Greaser, and his Perfecto-clad gang stir up trouble and break hearts.

If I tell you this musical adaptation of John Waters’ 1990 film is gloriously trashy you can take it as high praise indeed ... the drag queen Divine. But Cry-Baby and its older sister Hairspray ...

Based on the 1990 John Waters film that starred a young Johnny Depp (which I haven’t seen), Cry-Baby, The Musical is a 1950s-set frippery about romance across the class divide that never takes itself ...