Henegar Center to Present CRY-BABY

The Henegar Center announces Cry-Baby the Musical. This is the World Community Theatre Premiere of the show. The Henegar is making history and you're invited to be a part of it!

Cry-Baby was originally a John Waters' film, and launched Johnny Depp's film career in 1990. The film has become a cult classic and was adapted into a Broadway musical, which was nominated for four Tony Awards. The lyrics are by David Javerbaum, the Emmy Award winning writer of TV's "The Daily Show", with music by Adam Schlesinger, from the pop group Fountains of Wayne, and the book is by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan. O'Donnell and Meehan also adapted Waters' film Hairspray for the musical stage.

Cry-Baby is a musical comedy that 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.

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. The show played 45 previews and 68 performances.

The show was remounted by New Line Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri in March 2012. It had a smaller band, and cast. The show was re-orchestrated and revised by the original composers and writers for the New Line production. It remains the only production to be done of Cry-Baby the Musical since its life on Broadway.

Opening May 2015, The Henegar Center in Melbourne, FL will be the first community theatre granted permission to produce Cry-Baby the Musical. Plans are in place to produce a blog and video series documenting the process of redeveloping the show for community theatres, and capturing this historic event for Brevard.

Tickets are ON SALE NOW for Cry-Baby the Musical! The show runs from May 15-31 in the mainstage theatre, and is directed by Hank Rion, with vocal direction by Kaimi Lucker, and choreography by Amanda Manis. Tickets are $26 for adults, $23 for seniors, and $16 for students, plus a small handling fee. Group rates are available for groups of 15 or more. Reserved tickets may be purchased in person at the Henegar Center Box Office Monday through Friday from 1pm to 5pm, by calling 321-723-8698, or at www.henegar.org. For additional information, please visit www.henegar.org.

Moving forward into the 2015-2016 season, the Henegar Center is beginning the transition to becoming the Space Coast's first professional theatre. The first steps towards this transition include hiring actors to work alongside our community actors.

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