I guess it was only a matter of time... The New York Post reported today that the Broadway stage musical of John Waters' CRY-BABY will open next March after a premiere in California at the end of the year.
After the huge success of HAIRSPRAY, now in it's 5th year on Broadway, I guess this was bound to be next.
The book will be written by the HAIRSPRAY writers and the score will be by Adam Schlesinger of the band Fountains Of Wayne and lyrics by David Javerbaum who was head writer for Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. The press blurb states that Waters has taken a more active hand in this production and chose the songwriters.
I wonder when they'll get round to PINK FLAMINGOS?
2 comments:
What's with this compulsion to turn everything into a stage musical(then a movie of the musical of the movie...)? Cry Baby wasn't that great to start off with anyway.
Pink Flamingos I see more as a low-budget cartoon on Saturday morning kids' TV.
Cos the public know them.
Why take a chance with a story the audience may have to struggle with for the first 20 minutes when they can come in knowing what they are going to see?
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