New Line Theatre Announces Casting for Regional Premiere of Rock Musical "Cry-Baby"
Summary
" Saint Louis, MO, November 10, 2011 --( The New Line cast includes... Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker -- Ryan Foizey Allison Vernon-Williams -- Taylor Pietz Mrs. Vernon-Williams -- Cindy Duggan Baldwin -- Mike Dowdy Pepper Walker -- Marcy Wiegert Wanda Woodward -- Jeanitta Perkins Mona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski -- Sarah Porter DuPre -- Ari Scott Lenora Frigid -- Terrie Carolan The Whiffles -- Evan Fornachon, Devon Norris, Christopher Strawhun Judge Stone -- Joel Hackbarth Everyone Else -- Zachary Allen Farmer Square Girls/Drape Girls -- Courtney Brown, Alexandra Taylor The show will be directed by Scott Miller and choreographed by Robin Michelle Berger.Cry-Baby focuses on teenager Allison Vernon-Williams in 1954 Baltimore, right at the birth of rock and roll, who wanders across the tracks from her square boyfriend and finishing-school life into a relationship with the orphaned Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, the leader of a pack of "bad kids.Cry-Baby runs March 1-24, 2012, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings, at 8:00 p.m., at the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of Big Bend.Vernon-Williams -- Cindy DugganBaldwin -- Mike DowdyPepper Walker -- Marcy WiegertWanda Woodward -- Jeanitta PerkinsMona "Hatchet-Face" Malnorowski -- Sarah PorterDuPre -- Ari ScottLenora Frigid -- Terrie CarolanThe Whiffles -- Evan Fornachon, Devon Norris, Christopher StrawhunJudge Stone -- Joel HackbarthEveryone Else -- Zachary Allen FarmerSquare Girls/Drape Girls -- Courtney Brown, Alexandra TaylorThe show will be directed by Scott Miller and choreographed by Robin Michelle Berger.Cry-Baby has a score by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger, and a book by Mark ODonnell and Thomas Meehan.Cry-Baby focuses on teenager Allison Vernon-Williams in 1954 Baltimore, right at the birth of rock and roll, who wanders across the tracks from her square boyfriend and finishing-school life into a relationship with the orphaned Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, the leader of a pack of "bad kids.