Cry-Baby Cast Album released

By Joelgleo
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This fall, a cast album for the Broadway musical Cry-Baby will be released. This in itself is not really big news. Pretty much all successful musicals get cast albums these days. And Cry-Baby is a Tony nominated musical. But the thing is, it's not a new show. No Cry-Baby premiered on Broadway in 2008 and closed after just 68 performances. By pretty much all financial accounts, Cry-Baby was a musical flop. It closed so quickly that an original cast album for the show never really came together.

Cry-Baby is based on the John Waters movie of the same name that starred a very young Johnny Depp. A few years earlier another John Waters movie titled Hairspray had gone on to be a huge success on Broadway winning several Tony's in 2003 and being adapted into a movie musical in 2007. Clearly there was hope of Cry-Baby repeating the success of that show but in the end it didn't work out.

There is no exact release date on the album yet but it's been reported that for the most part all of the original Broadway cast will be returning to perform on the album making it a true original cast recording. I'm not sure if an original cast recording has ever been released so far after the run of a show before but it will finally fill a hole in the Broadway soundtrack collection of many fans.

Check out a teaser of one of the songs below.


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