The music comes in two rocky flavors -- cheery and droopy. It's the kind of music that makes you wonder whether you've heard it before, just before you stop caring. -- Clive Barnes, New York Post
Lightning doesn't strike twice. Cry-Baby ... does not repeat the success of [John Waters'] Hairspray. Some of the creators are different, the material is different and the hero and heroine are disastrously different. -- John Simon, Bloomberg News
As of 8 p.m., we had high hopes for Cry-Baby. In the overture, the band sang to the crowd to shut its cell phones off. But when we heard the awful lyric "It's a beautiful day for an anti-polio picnic" at 8:02 p.m., we got worried. By 10 p.m. it was official: Cry-Baby had completely failed to knock our bobby socks off. -- Matt Windman, AM New York
