Cry-Baby, Company, West Side Story To Be Featured in 5th Avenue Theatre’s 2006-2007 Season

The new musical Cry-Baby, based on John Waters’s 1990 film of the same title, will have its world premiere at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre during the 2006-2007 season. Other offerings will include Company and a 50th anniversary staging of West Side Story.

The season will begin with the national tour of Bombay Dreams (September 12-October 1), followed by Company (October 17-November 5) and White Christmas (November 28-December 17). Cry-Baby will run February 13-March 4 and will be directed by Mark Brokaw. The show has a book by Hairspray collaborators Thomas Meehan and Mark O’Donnell, a score by Adam Schlesinger (a member of the pop group Fountains of Wayne) and David Javerbaum, and will feature choreography by Tony Award winner Rob Ashford. Set in 1954, the musical focuses on Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker (played on film by Johnny Depp), a bad boy who can drive girls wild with a single tear. When a high school good girl falls for him, how far will she go to get her man?

After Cry-Baby, the season will continue with the Broadway-bound revival of Camelot, starring Michael York (March 20-April 8), and the musical version of another Johnny Depp film, Edward Scissorhands, directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne (April 25-May 13). Closing out the season will be the 50th anniversary production of the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents musical classic West Side Story in a co-production with Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater, which is led by choreographer Donald Byrd (The Color Purple). The show will run May 29-June 17.

For more information, call 202-625-1900 or visit www.5thavenue.org.