Cry-Baby, The Musical: Bold and brash – though you pine for Johnny Depp Making its UK premiere, this adaptation of the cult 1990 movie has its faults but sweeps you along even so 3/5 ...

But Cry-Baby and its older sister Hairspray (1988 ... but can’t match the sheer beauty and smouldering charisma Johnny Depp brought to the titular, emotionally bruised antihero.

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 credible and catchy doo-wop and ...