Cry Baby (album)

Cry Baby is the debut studio album by American recording artist Melanie Martinez. A concept album, it was released on August 14, 2015 by Atlantic Records through digital download, CD, and vinyl. The lead single for the album, "Pity Party", was released on June 2, 2015. The next single, "Soap", was released on July 10. "Sippy Cup", was the next single to be released from the album, the song serves as the sequel to "Dollhouse", and was released on July 31, 2015.Cry Baby, labeled as an electropop release, received generally favorable reviews, with some critics praising the album's ambitious conceptual themes and production.

Release

The album was released on August 14, 2015, by Atlantic Records, through digital download, CD and vinyl formats. The vinyl and CD have special packaging which includes a story book which follows the album by illustrator Chloe Tersigni.Cry Baby debuted at number 6 on the Billboard 200 with 41,000 units sold in its first week; it also debuted at the top of the Alternative Albums Chart.

Cry-Baby

Cry-Baby is a 1990 American teen musical romantic comedy film written and directed by John Waters. It was the first and last film of Waters' over which studios were in a bidding war, coming off the heels of the successful Hairspray. It stars Johnny Depp as 1950s teen rebel "Cry-Baby" Wade Walker, and also features a large ensemble cast that includes Amy Locane, Polly Bergen, Susan Tyrrell, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, and Traci Lords, with appearances by Troy Donahue, Joe Dallesandro, Joey Heatherton, David Nelson, Willem Dafoe and Patricia Hearst.

The story centers on a group of delinquents who refer to themselves as "drapes" and their interaction with the rest of the town and its other subculture, the "squares", in 1950s Baltimore, Maryland. "Cry-Baby" Walker, a drape, and Allison, a square, create upheaval and turmoil in their little town of Baltimore by breaking the subculture taboos and falling in love. The film shows what the young couple has to overcome to be together and how their actions affect the rest of the town.

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Music

Cry-Baby (musical)

Cry-Baby is a musical based on the John Waters movie of the same name. The music is by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger, and the book is by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan. O'Donnell and Meehan also adapted Waters' film Hairspray for the musical stage. The musical focuses on Baltimore teenager Allison Vernon-Williams, who is drawn across the tracks from her 1954 finishing-school background into a relationship with the orphaned Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, the leader of a pack of rebel outcasts.

Production

The musical premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California on November 18, 2007 and ran through December 16. Previews began on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on March 15, 2008, with an official opening on April 24, 2008. Directed by Mark Brokaw with choreography by Rob Ashford, the cast featured Harriet Harris and James Snyder as "Cry-Baby".

The Broadway production closed following the matinée performance on June 22. The show played 45 previews and 68 performances.