Vaccinate yourself against boredom and conformity with Theatre Kraken’s Cry Baby
Step back into the 50s, where the squares were hip, the conformists were applauded, and the free-spirits were as feared as nuclear warfare, communism, and polio. Cry-baby is the campy, comedy tale of Wade “Cry-baby” Walker, orphaned leader of a gang of uncouth youths in a town of proud to be squares. We open at the town’s Polio Vaccination Festival (taking place the same day as the unveiling of the local Country Club’s fallout shelter) where the Squares’ celebration is interrupted by Cry-baby and his gang of delinquents. There, Cry-baby meets Allison of the Good Girls, and it’s Romeo & Juliet styled love at first sight. Will Allison give up her goodly ways? Will anybody ever really understand Cry-baby? Is there a way for these star-crossed lovers to find a middle ground in a strange world? Buy your tickets to find out. Or Google it, I guess.
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Sitting in the late show of Movin’ Melvin Brown’s A Man, A Magic, A Music, I glanced off and saw his silhouette projected against the side wall. Ten-feet tall. Larger than life. I knew that that was how I had to start this review because that’s the best way to describe him. Movin’ Melvin Brown has such a strong personality, he’s exploding with it in every word he says or sings, every tap he dances, every laugh he laughs.
Luna is…
Do You Want To Live Forever? is a story told primarily through dance with a side of poetry added for good measure. It is the story of a man who has learned to live forever and is seeking a worthy partner. Or it is the story of a woman stuck in the doldrums of life with the weight of impending death weighing her down. Their stories overlap in a relationship spanning centuries that eventually sees her reconsidering her place in it all. Neither character is named in the text so I’ll be calling them He and She.
