Spring Musical: Cry-Baby
Venue: The Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts
Tech Week & Performances: May 8th - 14th 2022
If you are interested in directing 'Cry-Baby the Musical', now is the time to throw your hat in the ring! Deadline for application is December 30th. In your application please include any directorial experience and why you would like to be considered for the role of director. Please email Emily at [email protected] to apply, or with any questions.
*Preference will be given to current Leduc Drama Society members in good standing.
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. Cry-Baby and the square rich girl, Allison, are star-crossed lovers at the center of this world. Fueled by hormones and the new rhythms of rock and roll, she turns her back on her squeaky clean boyfriend, Baldwin, to become a "drape" (a Baltimore juvenile delinquent) and Cry-Baby's moll. At the other end of the topsy-turvy moral meritocracy of 1954 America, Baldwin is the king of the squares and leads his close-harmony pals against the juvenile delinquents, who are ultimately arrested for arson, sending the drapes all off to prison. It's Romeo and Juliet meets High School Hellcats.