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JOAN MARCUSJames Snyder and Elizabeth Stanley, center, star in "Cry-Baby," Broadway's adaptation of the 1990 John Waters movie. Cry-Baby.Where: Marquis Theatre, 1535 Broadway, New York.

As the title character memorably told his good-girl-gone-bad sweetheart in John Waters' 1990 movie, "You got it, Allison. You got it raw." ...

It's 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism, and Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He's a bad boy with a good cause -- truth, justice, and the pursuit of rock and roll.

Depp played a James Dean/Elvis-style rebel named Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker in the John Waters musical comedy, which was set in 1950s Baltimore and also starred Ricky Lake, Willem Defoe and Iggy Pop.

According to the Daily Mail, Pitt had auditioned for the role of Milton Hackett (Cry-Baby Walker’s sidekick) in the 1990 movie but lost out to Darren E. Burrows.

This loving tribute to those corny 1950's teen movies is about Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker (Johnny Depp)– a "drape" (rebel) with a minor cause, and Allison Vernon-Williams (Amy Locane), a square who ...

Here, Wade ‘Cry-Baby’ Walker is the king of his band of outlaw greasers because his pacifist parents were executed in World War II as communists.

No real tears are shed in "Cry-Baby," the exuberantly witty musical adaptation of John Waters' 1990 social satire in pre-Broadway tryout at the La Jolla Playhouse. That's because the style forbids ...