Cry Baby Script - Dialogue Transcript
Transcript written by and used with the courtesey of Angela Sugden
Mr Malnorowski
Get your cigarettes. Penny a piece. Six for a nickel.
Mrs Malnorowski
You owe me from yesterday, young man.
Student
Please, look, I'll pay you tomorrow.
Mrs Malnorowski
Wouldn't you like to have one?
Student
Oh, come on, just a drag. Just a drag!
Mrs Malnorowski
No cash, no tobacco. Go on, scram. Hey, Mona! Get over here and help your poor mother.
Mrs Woodward
Hi, kids. Remember, always look both ways before crossing.
Wanda
Mother!
Mrs Woodward
We're having your favourite supper tonight, Wanda. Potatoes au gratin. Now walk. Look left, look right.
That's right, then walk. Good teenagers.
Milton
Are you gonna work this summer?
Mr Woodward
Wanda, honey. You want a ride home with Dad?
Wanda
I got a lift. Thanks, anyway.
Mr Woodward
We could count out-of-state licence plates. I saw one this morning all the way up from Virginia.
Wanda
Dad, would you just leave me alone?
Mr Woodward
Bye, honey.
Allison
I'm so tired of being good. Hi.
Cry-Baby
Well. You're a pretty little Square. Wanna hang out with us Drapes tonight?
Mrs Vernon Williams
Allison Vernon Williams, get in this car.
Baldwin
What's the trouble, honey? These hoodlums bothering you?
Allison
No, no, we were just talking. Grandmother, Baldwin, this is Wade Walker.
Cry-Baby
They call me Cry-Baby. This here's my sister, Pepper.
Pepper
Greetings, Granny-o.
Baldwin
Allison's my girl, so hands off, Cry-Baby.
Cry-Baby
You could've fooled me, Square. Mrs Vernon Williams, I hear you're having a talent show out at your charm school today.
Mrs Vernon Williams
I can barely imagine what you would call music.
Cry-Baby
I can sing pretty good.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Well", not "good". Haven't you ever heard of the English language?
Pepper
Don't go and flip out, mama.
Hatchet-Face
Yeah. Sometimes shook-up old ladies... get cut.
Baldwin
Come on, honey. They're just bums.
Wanda
Mr Puniverse wants a fat lip.
Allison
I'd like to hear you sing.
Mrs Vernon Williams
I will say this once, and once only. Stay away from my granddaughter, you common juvenile delinquents.
Allison
It was nice talking to you all.
Cry-Baby
Let's go.
Mrs Vernon Williams
The prettiest and most talented girl in school, and yet she socializes with Drapes.
Baldwin
We're Squares, Allison, and Squares got to stick together.
Allison
Yeah, but Drapes are people too, they just look different. Maybe Cry-Baby can sing. Something cool, something hep.
Mrs Vernon Williams
And where did you learn those vulgar jazz words? Your poor dead parents would turn over in their graves.
Baldwin
It's those jukebox records she listens to. Honey, his kind of music isn't even on the Hit Parade.
Allison
How can I think when you're always touching me?
Mrs Vernon Williams
I have told you, Baldwin, a young lady does not like to be pawed.
Cry-Baby & Wanda (singing)
The women want a Cadillac, She don't want no man, I used to have a woman, Said she loved me so, I used to
have a woman, Said she loved me so...
Pepper
I think Cry-Baby's got a girlfriend.
Milton
Cry-Baby and Allison sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
Cry-Baby
Shut up, Milton.
Wanda
Hey, Hatchet-Face, you think Cry-Baby's got blue balls for the chick?
Hatchet-Face
Allison's a Square, Wanda. Cry-Baby don't dig Squares.
Pepper
No, she's a "Scrape". Part Square, part Drape. I think she's pretty.
Wanda
Cry-Baby want some hooch?
Cry-Baby
I don't drink and drive.
Mrs Vernon Williams
You're too young to know the shameful truth about the Walker boy's family. But let me warn you, evil is in his blood.
Cry-Baby, Pepper, Wanda, Milton & Hatchet-Face (singing)
Oh, please, listen to me...
Baldwin
Move up, now.
Mrs Vernon Williams
That's not funny.
Cry-Baby (singing)
Why I love that girl, love that girl. Hold me, baby, squeeze me. Never let me go. I'm not taking chances...
Baldwin
You're a dead man, Walker.
Cry-Baby, Pepper, Wanda, Milton & Hatchet-Face (singing)
Oh, gee. Yes, I love her.
Baldwin
Car!
Cry-Baby (singing)
...why I love that girl.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen... and welcome to the annual RSVP Talent Show.
Audience
Good afternoon, Mrs Vernon Williams.
Mrs Vernon Williams
First I must apologise for my frazzled nerves. However, this afternoon we were attacked... by a gang of juvenile delinquents.
It's all right. No one was injured. Juvenile delinquents are everywhere. Right here in this community. Boys with long hair
and tattoos, who spit on the sidewalk.
Old Woman
Can't believe it.
Woman
How disgusting.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Girls, who wear tight slacks. Hysterectomy pants, I call them. And if one of these creatures ever approach you on the street,
you are to silently repeat to yourself the four "B's" you learned here at RSVP. And what are they children, the four "B's"?
Audience
Beauty, brains, breeding, bounty!
Mrs Vernon Williams
Yes! Yes!
Mr Hackett
Teenagers everywhere repent! Let Jesus Christ be your gang leader! Get out of Turkey Point before it's too late.
Toe-Joe
Oh, take it easy, honey. I'm not getting any younger here, you know. That is what I call a really great shape. Knockers up,
sweetheart. Here it is! Beautiful. All right, here you go, honey pot. Thanks for the picture. All right, who's up? Toe-Joe
Jackson's art photography right here! Be a nudie-cutie, make good money to bootie. Hey, I'm paying three bucks a shot. You
got it, what the hell, why not show it, right? Hey, you. Yeah, you, the looker with the class-A sealed-beam headlights. You
want to pose for Toe-Joe?
Wanda
Beat it, creep.
Mrs Hackett
Here he comes now, with that devil woman.
Hatchet-Face
Hi, Mrs Hackett.
Mr Hackett
Imagine our shame. Our only child, and he carries illegal weapons, drives fast cars, and wears clothes obviously designed by
homosexuals. But he knows better. Jesus is still in his heart.
Milton
Jeez, Mom and Dad, go home. You're embarrassing me. I'm a teenager. I wanna live. Looks like somebody lost their laundry.
Lenora
Hello, Cry-Baby. You scorch me, man.
Cry-Baby
Later, Lenora.
Lenora
Oh, but, Cry-Baby, I need a date for tonight's Jukebox Jamboree.
Cry-Baby
Well, I'm solo, sugar.
Lenora
Wanna see these gun-boats? I give, Cry-Baby. I give bare second on the first date.
Cry-Baby
Use your mentality and cool down.
Wanda
Yeah, Lenora, your bosoms ain't nothing.
Hatchet-Face
Better watch it, bozo. You might catch a cold.
Pepper
My brother wouldn't touch your titties with a ten foot pole. He likes his women bad, Lenora, not cheap.
Baldwin (singing)
Life could be a dream. If I could take you up in paradise up above. If you would tell me, I'm the only one that you love.
Life could be a dream, sweetheart.
Whiffles (singing)
Hello, hello again. Sh boom, I'm hoping we'll meet again.
Baldwin (singing)
Oh, life could be a dream. If only all my precious plans would come true. If you would let me spend my whole life loving you.
Life could be a dream, sweetheart.
Baldwin & Whiffles (singing)
Sh boom, sh boom. Sh boom, sh boom. Sh boom, sh boom. Sh boom. Now, every time I look at you. Something is on my mind. If
you'd do what I want to you. Baby, we'd be so fine. Oh, life could be a dream. If I could take you up in paradise up above.
If you would tell me I'm the only one that you love.
Baldwin (singing)
Life could be a dream, sweetheart.
Baldwin & Whiffles (singing)
Hello, hello again. Sh boom, I'm hoping we'll meet again. Sh boom, sh boom.
Baldwin (singing)
Life could be a dream, sweetheart.
Cry-Baby
Uncle Belvedere!
Belvedere
You caught me in my birthday suit, buck-naked.
Pepper
Grandma, we're home!
Dupree
How much?
Ramona
That muffler? Dupree, for you... fifteen bucks take it or leave it.
Dupree
Come on, Ramona. Ten. This thing's hotter than a pistol.
Ramona
You guys wanna do business with Ramona Rickettes, or would you rather shop at Sears? Now, give me the bread and keep your trap shut!
Dupree
You're a hard woman.
Ramona
I'm gonna see you in hell, Dupree. Go on, get outta here.
Pepper
Have you been bothering you great-grandma all day? She has customers.
Dupree
Hell, no. They helped me steal a car.
Snare-Drum
It's a fifty-one Olds. It's really cool.
Pepper
That's my little Snare-Drum.
Susie-Q
And Ma, I swiped six hubcaps like a big girl.
Pepper
Way to go, Susie-Q.
Snare-Drum
Make those monster faces, Hatchet. Please.
Ramona
Goddamn gopher's digging up my front yard. What are you teenagers waiting for? Turkey Point is open for business! Let's celebrate! Yee-ha!
Belvedere
Come on.
Ramona
Come on.
Belvedere
Come on, everybody. Come on in. Today's a special day for me and your grandmother. We've been together ten whole years.
Ramona
I'm just so proud of all my Drape children. Oh, Wanda, you sure is pretty in them tight clothes, all painted up like trash.
Wanda
I wish you and Belvedere were my parents.
Ramona
Oh... Now, Milton... boy, you are everything a man should be. You're young, stupid and mean.
Milton
We're gonna play some cool music for you tonight, Ramona.
Ramona
And, Hatchet-Face. Oh, honey. You're just like me. Now, you put the "T" in "tough". So hard, you could've been eating nails
for breakfast. But that's the way a woman's got to be these days.
Hatchet-Face
I'd kick a Square's ass for you in a minute, Mrs Rickettes.
Ramona
Oh, this is the best gang my grandson could ever have.
Pepper
Grandma, I'm so happy all knocked up... I wish I was having triplets.
Ramona
Well, we've got a little surprise for your young'un in your oven. You show her, Bel.
Belvedere
Sure will.
Cry-Baby
Oh, Pepper, ain't that cute?
Pepper
It's beautiful, Grandma.
Ramona
Cry-Baby. When you was a boy, you had to be the man of this family.
Belvedere
But I taught you how to dress, didn't I, Cry-Baby?
Cry-Baby
Sure did, Uncle Bel.
Ramona
Oh, well. You're the future now, boy. You're the only future for this godforsaken family. And I want you to go out there tonight and
sing, boy. I want you to sing your heart out. You can show him now, Belvedere. This took a lot of hubcaps, Cry-Baby.
Hatchet-Face
Wow.
Pepper
Whoa.
Snare-Drum
Cool.
Susie-Q
Cool.
Pepper
Wow.
Snare-Drum
That's neat.
Cry-Baby
Grandmother, Uncle Belvedere... you've made me the happiest juvenile delinquent in Baltimore. And guess what? I met a girl!
Allison (singing)
My friends all know it. How I adore him. I've whispered to angels. What I'd do for him. He is the answer. To a teenage prayer.
He won't go steady. The crowd has told me. But I keep waiting. To have him hold me. Why won't you listen? To a teenage prayer.
I wait by the window at seven. And chill when my thrill passes by. His kiss could send me to heaven. Into his arms I would fly...
My girlfriend, Betty. Tells me he's lazy. But I know Betty. Loves him like crazy. He is the answer to a teenage prayer. Yes, he
is the answer...
Mrs Vernon Williams
All right, girls. What this is, this is unfortunately a red alert. So please take your duck-and-cover positions immediately. It,
it is only an air-raid drill. There are no atom bombs actually being dropped.
Baldwin
You were incredible, honey. Where did you learn to sing like that?
Allison
Just practicing. Baldwin.
Mrs Vernon Williams
All right, boys and girls. That's the all-clear signal. You can come out now. Everyone is safe and sound. Stay in your places.
Baldwin
Whiffle. Is he here? Is he here? I can't see anything.
Square
Yeah, that's him. Cry-Baby Walker.
Cry-Baby
I'm sorry about this afternoon, Mrs Vernon Williams. Is Allison home? 'Cos, er, I'm going to sing tonight and I thought she might
like to hear me. Aagh!
Mrs Vernon Williams
Baldwin! Mind your manners.
Baldwin
This is what we think of your kind of music.
Allison
How dare you hit him! You don't own me, Baldwin. I have the right to hear Cry-Baby sing.
Baldwin
Don't get all worked up, honey. The punk got what he deserved.
Cry-Baby
Come on.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Allison.
Square
Get up. Get up. Go!
Mrs Vernon Williams
Allison.
Cry-Baby
Hop on, honey.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Just one minute, young lady.
Cry-Baby
Listen, I'll take good care of her, Mrs Vernon Williams. I promise. And it's okay about my face. It don't hurt much.
Allison
Please. It's not a school night and I've been a good girl. Just one night of happiness, that's all I ask.
Mrs Vernon Williams
But... what if you get your dress dirty?
Allison
Thank you, grandmother.
Cry-Baby
You okay? I didn't get no axle grease on you, did I?
Allison
No. No, I'm fine.
Cry-Baby
You been to Turkey Point before?
Allison
My grandmother wouldn't let me. She calls it the Redneck Riviera.
Cry-Baby
It's where I live. Beautiful, ain't it?
Allison
It's really wild. But I'm, I'm afraid that I'm not gonna fit in here. You know, with your friends and stuff.
Cry-Baby
You're cool, Allison. You just look Square. Underneath it all, I think you're really hep.
Hatchet-Face
Well, what have we here?
Wanda
First Square to ever set foot in Turkey Point.
Pepper
Hey, fine mama. Welcome to the Jukebox Jamboree.
Cry-Baby
These are the Cry-Baby girls. That's Wanda.
Wanda
Dig it, babe. You need a new look.
Hatchet-Face
Don't you got tits? Stick 'em out, for God's sake.
Cry-Baby
That's Hatchet-Face. She don't mean no harm.
Pepper
First thing a Cry-Baby girl learns, our bazooms are our weapons.
Cry-Baby
Now, Pepper's pregnant. But she can fight like a man.
Wanda
I wouldn't be caught dead in a full skirt.
Pepper
Hey girls, what do you think? Let's give Allison here a bad-girl beauty makeover. Are you game?
Allison
Sure. Think I got what it takes?
Cry-Baby
You got it, Allison. You got it raw.
Ramona
Hey, hey, hey! Dig it all you hep cats and cool chicks. You know me. Ramona Rickettes! Now let me introduce to you the Cry-Baby
Combo... Milton, Pepper, Wanda, Hatchet-Face.
Snare-Drum & Susie-Q
Hi, Mom.
Ramona
And now, the baddest baby of them all... the man you came here for... the big boo-hoo... the terrible teardrop... ladies and gentlemen, my grandson,
Cry-Baby!
Cry-Baby(singing)
Well, one for all and all for one. And all we want is to have some fun. Squares beware of our property. Yeah, if you're looking to rumble,
you're looking at me. 'Cos I'm the king. 'Cos I'm the king.
Cry-Baby Combo (singing)
King cry baby.
Cry-Baby (singing)
Yeah, I'm the king.
Cry-Baby Combo (singing)
King cry baby.
Cry-Baby (singing)
A king with a tear in my eye. If you mess with the king, you're gonna cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry. Well, I was
born on the wrong side of the tracks. In the back seat of a stolen Cadillac. I had my first cigarette before I could walk. And I was
strumming this guitar before I could talk. 'Cos I'm the king.
Cry-Baby Combo (singing)
King cry baby.
Cry-Baby (singing)
Yeah, I'm the king.
Cry-Baby Combo (singing)
King cry baby.
Cry-Baby (singing)
Oh, I'm the king.
Cry-Baby Combo (singing)
King cry baby.
Cry-Baby (singing)
A king cry baby with a tear in my eye. If you mess with the king, you're gonna cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry. Well,
I'm a lonely king who needs a queen. Yeah, you're the sweetest hunk of sugar that I've ever seen. Ain't got a ring or a crown for you.
Well, if I had your love. I'd lose these cry baby blues.
Cry-Baby Combo (singing)
She's the queen.
Ramona
Go on now, honey.
Belvedere
Go on.
Ramona
Go on.
Cry-Baby Combo (singing)
She's the queen.
Allison (singing)
Well, let people talk, I don't care. Let me prove to you, daddy, that I ain't no Square.
Cry-Baby (singing)
You be my queen and I'll be your king. Yeah, but if you leave my hive, you're gonna feel my sting. 'Cos you're my queen.
Allison (singing)
You're the king.
Cry-Baby & Allison (singing)
King, queen.
Cry-Baby (singing)
A king cry baby with my queen by my side.
Cry-Baby & Allison (singing)
And if you mess with us, man, you're gonna cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry. Cry, baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry. Cry,
baby, cry, baby, cry, baby, cry.
Cry-Baby
Kiss me. Kiss me hard.
Allison
I've never given a French kiss before.
Cry-Baby
Watch. It's easy. You just open your mouth... and I open mine... and we wiggle our tongues together. And it feels real sexy.
Allison
I won't get mononucleosis, will I?
Cry-Baby
No, Allison. Just try it. If you don't like it, I promise I'll stop.
Square
Break the window.
Cry-Baby
I'm sorry, Allison. It's just that... you're so beautiful.
Allison
I want to let you, but I can't. For my parents' sake. Cry-Baby, they're both dead. I'm an orphan.
Cry-Baby
I'm sorry, Allison. No wonder we're together, honey. I'm an orphan, too.
Allison
You are?
Cry-Baby
Yes. And orphans have special needs.
Allison
Just on the outside of the shirt, okay?
Cry-Baby
Is it okay with you?
Allison
Yes. Oh, yes. My parents were, they were good people and they loved me.
Cry-Baby
I want you. I need you. I love you, too, Allison.
Allison
They had to go on a business trip together. It was their first airplane ride. Oh, Cry-Baby, your fingers feel so good.
Cry-Baby
I've been saving it up for a girl like you, honey.
Allison
Mummy and Daddy took separate planes for safety. In case one plane crashed, I'd still have a living parent. But, Cry-Baby, both planes
crashed and I never saw my parents alive again.
Cry-Baby
God damn! Lightning!
Allison
What's the matter, Cry-Baby?
Cry-Baby
Everything's the matter.
Allison
It's just a thunderstorm. Heat lightning. It's sexy.
Cry-Baby
It's not sexy. Electricity makes me insane.
Allison
Why, Cry-Baby, why?
Cry-Baby
Here's why. Electricity killed my parents.
Allison
They died in the electric chair?
Cry-Baby
That's right, Allison. My father was the Alphabet Bomber. He may have been crazy, but he was my pop. The only one I ever had.
Allison
God. I heard about the Alphabet Bomber. Bombs exploding in the, in the airport and barbershop.
Cry-Baby
That's right, all in alphabetical order. Carwash, drugstore. I used to lay in my cradle and hear him scream in his sleep.
A, B, C, D, E, F, G... Pow! Pow!
Allison
But your mom?
Cry-Baby
My mother tried to stop him. She couldn't even spell, for Christ's sake, but they fried her, too. But I'll pay them all
back, Allison. Any that's why every day, I gotta do something rotten for my parents' sake, and I cry for what I have to do.
But not much, though. One single, salty tear... is all they'll ever suck out of this Cry-Baby.
Pepper
Cry-Baby!
Lenora
I'm going to have his baby.
Baldwin
Allison!
Allison
Oh, my God. What have they done to you?
Baldwin
Allison, come home. They beat me and kicked me. All because I love you.
Cry-Baby
Get on.
Baldwin
Don't do it, Allison. No!
Drapes
Too smart to work, too cool to care! Come to Turkey Point, man, if you dare! Too smart to work, too cool to care! Come to
Turkey Point, man, if you dare! Too smart to work...
Baldwin
Hey, let her go. She's with me. Her name's Allison and she's a nice girl.
Cry-Baby
Allison, I'm sorry to get you locked up. But tonight... you were the coolest date I ever had.
Allison
But, Cry-Baby, who is that girl? Why didn't you tell me you already had a lady friend?
Cry-Baby
Lenora ain't nothing to me. I swear on my daddy's grave. I'm burning inside to touch you, baby.
Press Man 1
How do you feel about your granddaughter becoming a Drapette?
Press Man 2
Mrs Vernon Williams, a picture, please.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Please, no pictures.
Hatchet-Face
Get your hands off me! Let go of me! Get your hands off me!
Judge
Order. Order in this courtroom. What a sad vision of today's youth. The juvenile authorities have had it with Drape gangs.
Milton Hackett. Wanda Woodward. Mona Malnorowski, also known as Hatchet-Face. You are blights on this community. Are the parents here?
Mr Hackett
Yes, your Honour. We've been praying all night for our son.
Mrs Hackett
Praying so hard we've got headaches.
Mr Woodward
Hi, Wanda, honey.
Mrs Woodward
You were on the radio.
Wanda
Would you just get me the fuck outta here?
Mrs Woodward
What's "fuck" mean, Hector?
Mr Woodward
Oh, Meg, it's just a teen nonsense word Wanda uses to make herself feel all grown up.
Mrs Woodward
Your Honour, could we take Wanda the fuck home?
Judge
Good God! Order. Order in this courtroom.
Mr Hackett
You hear that, your Honour? It's a sign. She's speaking in tongues. God's in her gullet. And he's in yours, too.
Mrs Hackett
(Mumbles incoherently)
Mr Hackett
Let him out. Let the words of the Saviour be heard.
Mrs Hackett
(Mumbles incoherently)
Judge
Order! Order! No wonder your children are in trouble. And you, Miss Malnorowski... By the way, that's a shame about your face.
Hatchet-Face
There's nothing the matter with my face. I got character.
Judge
I see that your parents haven't taken the trouble to come to get you.
Mr Malnorowski
Oh, yes, we did. You happy now, Mona? Huh? You finally did it. You put your own mother in an iron lung.
Judge
Mrs Malnorowski, there is no smoking in this courtroom.
Mrs Malnorowski
Why not? I pay taxes on cigarettes, don't I? And what do I get for those taxes? Happiness? Hell, no. I get tuberculosis.
Oh, Christ! Now I got a flat tyre.
Judge
I am going to release these delinquents to their parents' custody. And if they were mine... I'd give them a bare-asses whipping.
Ramona
Oh, they can sing, your Honour. You should hear 'em. Oh! It's new, it's exciting.
Belvedere
We don't know what to call it. It sort of rocks, man, it, it spins.
Ramona
Yeah!
Belvedere
Nah, let me get the right words. It twirls. It twirls.
Judge
Ramona and Belvedere Rickettes, I find you guilty of disturbing the peace and I fine the both of you, one thousand dollars.
Ramona
But, that's all we have.
Belvedere
How are we supposed to live?
Judge
Damn you. Handcuff those brats.
Pepper
Don't touch my children!
Judge
And you, Pepper Walker... I'm going to have your two children put in the custody of the Chatterbox Orphanage, until they are adopted
by God-fearing parents who at least will give them Christian names.
Pepper
Not my children. They're my flesh and blood.
Cry-Baby
She's a good mother.
Pepper
They're all I have!
Judge
Mrs Tadlock.
Pepper
Get away from them. You leave my kids alone!
Ramona
Don't you touch them kids.
Mrs Tadlock
Come on.
Pepper
I love you, children.
Judge
Wade Walker, better known as Cry-Baby... What a sad and silly name for a young man. You were the ringleader in tonight's gang war.
Allison
Grandmother, help him. We were just singing together.
Cry-Baby
Judge, let Allison go and I'll take the full blame. I didn't mean no harm, Mrs Vernon Williams. I may be a Drape, but I love your
granddaughter. And if that's a crime, I'll stand convicted... ma'am.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Your Honour, I am Allison's grandmother. And, er, if Mr Walker does have a musical talent... I am willing to give him a second chance.
Won't you? The boy is at least polite.
Judge
Mrs Vernon Williams... are you aware that Negroes were present at tonight's disturbance?
Mrs Vernon Williams
My granddaughter is fond of all kinds of music.
Judge
I am going to release Allison this one time... because you are a fine and beautiful woman, Mrs Vernon Williams. But not you, Cry-Baby
Walker. The only place you're going to sing is in jail.
Allison
No!
Judge
I find you guilty of rampant juvenile delinquency... and I hereby sentence you... to the Maryland Training School for Boys until your
twenty-first birthday.
Cry-Baby
Ha!
Judge
Court dismissed! Lock him up!
Ramona
You can't lock up his music!
Cry-Baby
I'll get out, sugar dumpling, I'll get out if it's the last thing I do! I swear!
Allison
Cry-Baby!
Lenora
Boy, do I have a story for you.
Press Man 1
How does it feel to be a juvenile delinquent?
Cry-Baby
It feels good. I've never been so happy in my whole life. Lenora you filthy hag. I wouldn't let you shine my boots! Allison's my
girl. A-L-L-I-S-O-N, fellows.
Press Man 2
When did he propose?
Lenora
Just last night. You see, I'm pregnant with his child. You know that Cry-Baby is an orphan. He wants his baby to have a real family...
for the family that he himself never had.
Inmates
(Arguing and Shouting)
Warder
Shut up! Shut up! Delinquents, hit the sack!
Inmate 1
I swear.
Warder
Strip down, asshole. It's beddy-bye time. Now don't for get to say your prayers. God bless my probation officer!
Inmates
God bless my probation officer.
Warder
God bless the draft board!
Inmates
God bless the draft board.
Warder
God bless the juvenile authorities!
Inmates
God bless the juvenile authorities.
Warder
We're gonna give you a haircut tomorrow, pretty boy. You ever hear of a whiffle? Well, that's what you're gonna get, you big old
cry-baby, you. God bless Dwight Eisenhower!
Inmates
God bless Dwight Eisenhower.
Warder
God bless Roy Cohn!
Inmates
God bless Roy Cohn.
Warder
God bless Richard Nixon!
Inmates
God bless Richard Nixon.
Warder
Nighty-night, boys.
Allison
Cry-Baby.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Teardrops are falling. Teardrops are falling.
Inmates(singing)
Cry, go on, cry. Cry, go on, cry.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Teardrops are falling. Out my eyes. Teardrops are falling. I wonder why. Teardrops are falling. For you made me cry.
Dupree(singing)
Yes, teardrops are falling. Falling from my eyes. Yes, yes, yes. You made me cry. When you went away. You stayed away so long.
Come back, my dear.
Cry-Baby(singing)
My heart is aching. Almost breaking. If you hear me. Come back to me. Teardrops are falling. And you made me cry.
Inmates(singing)
Cry, don't cry. Cry, don't cry. Cry, don't cry. Cry, don't cry.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Oh, God.
Radio Announcer
Call these Drapettes bold, call them brazen, but whatever you do, don't call them Square. Yes, mothers, you should be worried.
Following last night's disturbance at Turkey Point, Cry-Baby Walker, convicted delinquent, had the nerve to announce his engagement
to fellow gang member and known hussy... Lenora Frigid, mother-to-be of his child.
Lenora
Cry-Baby is an orphan. And he wants his baby to have a real family... for the family that he himself never had.
Radio Announcer
Wade Walker, defiantly entering the Maryland Training School for Boys had this to say...
Cry-Baby
It feels good, man. I've never been so happy in my whole life.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Hurry, Allison, hide. The newspapers have blown this completely out of proportion.
Allison
He lied to me, grandmother. And the whole world knows I'm just a Drape fool.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Heavy hangs the head, that last night wore the crown. Allison.
Baldwin & Whiffles(singing)
The naughty lady of Shady Lane. Has hit the town like a bomb. The back-fence gossip ain't been this good. Since Mabel ran off
with Tom. Our town was peaceful and quiet. Before she came on the scene. The lady has started a riot. Disturbing the suburban routine...
Mrs Vernon Williams
Allison Vernon Williams, you don't have to decide today. Give your heart some time to think.
Baldwin & Whiffles(singing)
The naughty lady of Shady Lane. So delectable. Quite respectable. Me, oh, my, what a girl.
Baldwin
Allison, would you sing with me today?
Dupree
Hey, man, you old lady's on the radio. There's trouble, Cry-Baby, big trouble.
Cry-Baby
Allison!
Baldwin
There's a new place that's opening. It's... sorta wild, kinda cool. It's called a theme park and it's the first in the state of Maryland.
Allison
I'd be proud to, Baldwin. Cry-Baby Walker, I hope you're happy with Lenora. I only have one thing to say to you. I think
you're a liar, and a cad... and I spit on your tears.
Baldwin
I can sing better than Cry-Baby Walker any day of the week.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Well, I ain't here 'cos I drive too fast. And I'm too young to have a criminal past. Some good behaviour would be all right.
But I don't seem to qualify. I'm just out for a little fun. But I'm guilty till I'm twenty-one. I guess I'm doing time for being
young. So cut these shackles off of me.
Inmates(singing)
Let me go. Let me go.
Cry-Baby(singing)
This kind of suit don't set me free.
Inmates(singing)
Set me free. Set me free.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Well, I can't live if I can't ride.
Inmates(singing)
Let me ride. Let me ride.
Cry-Baby(singing)
And I want my baby by my side.
Inmates(singing)
I want my baby by my side.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Yes, I'm just out for a little fun. But I'm guilty till I'm twenty-one. I guess I'm doing time for being young. Now, I can't let
the right thing stand in my way. Someday, baby, I'll know better. But right now I'm making them pay. What do I do, who do I thank?
Inmates(singing)
What can I do? What can I do?
Cry-Baby(singing)
To get me out of this stinking tank.
Inmates(singing)
Stinking tank. Stinking tank.
Cry-Baby(singing)
It's heartbreaking to be this age.
Inmates(singing)
Stuck in a cage. Stuck in a cage.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Locked in the prison of teenage rage.
Inmates(singing)
Stuck in a cage with a teenage rage.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Well, I was out for a little fun. I guess I'm guilty till I'm twenty-one. I must be doing time for being young.
Inmates(singing)
Stuck in a cage with a teenage rage.
Cry-Baby(singing)
I don't want to be doing time for being young.
Wanda
Who the hell is this?
Mrs Woodward
This is Inga. She's from Sweden. She's an exchange student. And she's going to be staying with us for a while.
Mr Woodward
Inga, this is our daughter, Wanda. Say hello.
Inga
Ja.
Wanda
I'm blowing this joint.
Mr Woodward
Look, Inga doesn't understand English very well. Inga, say hello to Wanda.
Inga
Ja?
Mrs Woodward
Say hello to our daughter.
Inga
Ja.
Mr Woodward
Er, honey, why don't you come over and sit down? Get to know one another. Look at all the wonderful presents she's brought us
from her native land.
Mrs Woodward
Let's all put on a folk hat and learn something about a foreign culture.
Mr Woodward
Do we have a surprise for you? Don't we, Meg?
Mrs Woodward
We sure do. All this silly trouble you've been having lately... Wanda, honey, you're going to Sweden, this afternoon at three o'clock.
Wanda
You mean you swapped me? For a milkmaid?
Mr Woodward
Oh, honey... Inga's mater and pater will treat you just like one of the family. Ja, Inga?
Inga
Ja. Ja, ja.
Wanda
You want to learn about America, Inga? In America, we like boys. We like hot boys. Boys with roaming hands and rushing fingers.
Mrs Woodward
Wanda, honey, want some Ovaltine?
Inga
Ja. Ja, ja.
Wanda
Yeah, I'm just a bebop baby. And I don't take nothing from no one. See you later daddy-o's. Have a cool Yule and a frantic First.
Toe-Joe
Hey, you going my way?
Wanda
Oh, it's you. You ever hear of something called a theme park?
Toe-Joe
Yeah, there's a big opening over there today.
Wanda
Well, that's where I'm going, stallion.
Toe-Joe
Well, hop on in.
Dupree
Hold on, homeboy. Almost done. I know it hurts, but being this cool's always a pain.
Cry-Baby
Ah, the pain ain't nothing, Dupree. I've been hurt all my life, but real tears wash away. Ow! This one's for Allison and I
want it to last forever.
Dupree
Oh. There you go. It's a beauty. You never have to cry again.
Warder
I heard talking in here. What's that on your face, blubber-boy?
Cry-Baby
Are you blind? It's a lonely teardrop.
Warder
Now ain't that cute? It ought to go real good with your new haircut.
Cry-Baby
I ain't getting no haircut.
Warder
You want to bet? You're next, sniffle-snot.
Dupree
Cry-Baby, look! It's your only chance, man.
Cry-Baby
Nobody's gonna turn me Square, Dupree. I want my girl... I want my family, and I want my gang. Thanks for the tattoo.
Milton
Come on, gorgeous.
Hatchet-Face
Look. Is that the prison? Move over, Milton. Let me try. Geronimo!
Inmate 1
Look at that!
Inmate 2
What do we have here?
Inmate 3
Who is that?
Hatchet-Face
This is a jailbreak!
Cry-Baby
Milton! Hatchet!
Hatchet-Face
Cry-Baby, where are you? Cry-Baby!
Inmate 4
He's in the library!
Inmate 5
No, no, he's in the cafeteria!
Inmate 6
No, man, he's in the hole!
Inmate 7
No, this way, he's in the movies!
Inmate 8
That way!
Hatchet-Face
Cry-Baby!
Woman in Film
Hurry, David.
Man in Film
I've almost got it.
Inmate 9
Hurry up.
Inmate 10
Come on.
Cry-Baby
Whoa! What's down here? What, this way? Oh... thanks pal.
Mrs Tadlock
Just come right this way. Now, er, this is, er, Sheila. She's Caucasian, but that's about all I can recommend. Bad table manners.
Ramona
Ah, we were thinking of two children, actually.
Pepper
About six of seven years old.
Belvedere
With some spunk.
Mrs Tadlock
Well, what about him? Little Joey, mother's little helper. He not only vacuums, he does windows. Irons.
Ramona
Yes.
Pepper
Here, these are the ones we want.
Belvedere
A double-header.
Ramona
Oh, they're adorable. We'll take them.
Mrs Tadlock
Ah, now, that's a thing with two heads, absolutely not. Siamese twins are a financial burden. Sewing all those old school
clothes together. You're nor psychologically equipped.
Pepper
Mrs Tadlock, these are my children, and I'm taking 'em with me.
Ramona
That's right, sister.
Mrs Tadlock
You! Let me out of here! Help!
Pepper
Good going. Good going.
Ramona
That was great.
Pepper
I'm so proud of you.
Ramona
Come on, we got to get to the Enchanted Forest. Turn left.
Belvedere
No, turn right.
Allison, Baldwin & Whiffles(singing)
Mister Sandman...
Baldwin(singing)
Yes...
Allison(singing)
Bring me a dream...
Allison, Baldwin & Whiffles(singing)
I am the cutest that she's ever seen. Give her the word that I'm not a rover. Then tell her that her lonesome nights are over...
Mrs Vernon Williams
What?
Ramona
Ssh.
Allison(singing)
Mister Sandman, I'm so alone. Don't have nobody to call my own. Please turn on your magic beam...
Baldwin & Whiffles(singing)
Mister Sandman, bring her a dream...
Allison, Baldwin & Whiffles(singing)
Mister Sandman, bring us a dream. Give him a pair of eyes with that come-hither gleam. Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci.
And lots of wavy hair like Liberace. Mister Sandman, someone to hold. Would be so peachy before we're too old. So please turn
on your magic beam. Mister Sandman, bring us. Please, please, please. Mister Sandman, bring us a dream.
Allison
Aargh!
Ramona
Yeah!
Baldwin & Whiffles
Drapes!
Milton
Allison Vernon Williams, the decision is yours.
Belvedere
You sand with the Squares. Now sing with the Drapes.
Mrs Vernon Williams
Yeah!
Hatchet-Face
Cry-Baby needs you.
Baldwin
We'll get married and live in suburbia. I love you, Allison.
Allison
I don't want to hurt you, Baldwin.
Lenora
I had my baby. Isn't he cute? I'm a Square now. Wave to Allison.
Mrs Vernon Williams
You may be a Square, Lenora, but you're still a tramp. Allison, pick the man who loves you the most.
Allison(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free? Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free? He don't belong in prison,
though he's as guilty as can be. But the only crime he's guilty of, is simply loving me. Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let my man go free?
Allison & Inmates(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer...
Allison(singing)
Won't you let my man go free? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Allison & Inmates(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer, won't you let this jailbird free?
Allison(singing)
Just look into his eyes. Open up that door. Just listen to his guitar, you'll know the score.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer, let an honest man go free.
Allison(singing)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cry-Baby & Inmates(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer, don't you make no lifer out of me.
Inmates(singing)
I'm innocent, I swear it. Let my woman testify. She'll tell you where I was that night.
Allison & Inmates(singing)
Yeah, I'm his alibi.
Inmates(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer...
Allison(singing)
Won't you let my man go free?
Cry-Baby & Inmates(singing)
Well, I'm tired of pressing licence plates, down in this rotten hole. I gotta reach the outside before I lose control.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer, don't you make no lifer out of me.
Allison(singing)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tannoy
Walker, Wade Walker, you have a visitor.
Cry-Baby & Inmates(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer, let me out of this penitentiary.
Inmate(singing)
Let me out.
Cry-Baby & Inmates(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer, don't you make no lifer out of me. Please, Mr Jailer...
Allison(singing)
Won't you let my baby go free? Oh-oh, Whoa-oh. Let my man go free.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Whoa-oh. Don't make no lifer out of me.
Cry-Baby & Inmates(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer, can't you see how much love she's got for me?
Allison(singing)
Well, let him go, let him go. Let him go. Let my man go free.
Cry-Baby & Inmates(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer...
Cry-Baby(singing)
Well, let me out.
Cry-Baby & Inmates(singing)
Please, Mr Jailer, don't make me shout. Please, Mr Jailer...
Cry-Baby(singing)
Well, let me out.
Baldwin
Criminal!
Judge
Cry-Baby Walker, society has given you a second chance. You're rehabilitated now. Here is three dollars and fifty cents.
And a pair of clean underwear.
Lenora, Baldwin & Whiffles
Boo! Boo! Boo!
Baldwin
You think you're a big man, Cry-Baby. But you're lower than your dead father. And guess who pulled the switch on that jerk?
My grand-pappy, that's who. And every Christmas since, my whole family gathers together and he re-tells the story of the day he
electrocuted your daddy... and we just laugh.
Hatchet-Face
Let me punch his ugly face.
Cry-Baby
It's okay, Hatchet. You're beautiful, baby. But I'll take care of this maggot. Do you know how to play the automobile game called "chicken"?
Baldwin
Sure, my can and your jalopy. We head toward one another at full speed. First to turn the wheel before we smash is a chicken.
Judge
Is that legal?
Mrs Vernon Williams
Stop this insanity.
Cry-Baby
I got some new rules, sucker. How 'bout you and me on top of the car?
Baldwin
I'm man enough, you big cry-baby.
Cry-Baby
That's Mr Baby to you. Fellows of the press, this chicken race tonight is for my daddy. And I'd like to sing something in his
memory, something... hillbilly. Something coloured. Something my daddy would have loved.
Cry-Baby(singing)
You call us hoods, and say we've gone mad. 'Cos we feel so good when we're being bad. We're high school hellcats.
Drapes(singing)
On our own.
Cry-Baby(singing)
High school hellcats.
Drapes(singing)
Almost grown.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Come on and pick a fight, I wish you would. We love being bad.
Drapes(singing)
'Cos it sure feels good.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Wow!
Mrs Vernon Williams
Baldwin, please. Be a gentleman and call off this race, it's too dangerous.
Baldwin
Mrs Vernon Williams, you were born a Square and you're gonna die a Square. You're coming with me.
Whiffle
Come on!
Mrs Vernon Williams
No!
Whiffle
Come on!
Mrs Vernon Williams
No!
Allison(singing)
Yeah. Stand back, look out. We're renegade teens. Friends of the devil. But twice as mean. We're looking for kicks.
We want them now. We're gonna get them.
Drapes(singing)
And we don't care how.
Allison(singing)
We're high school hellcats.
Drapes(singing)
On our own.
Allison(singing)
High school hellcats.
Drapes(singing)
Almost grown.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Come on, pick a fight. We wish you would. We love being bad.
Drapes(singing)
'Cos it sure feels good.
Cry-Baby(singing)
Come on! Come on! Come on! Who-oo! Well, you lock us up in your schools. We weren't born to live by rules...
Mrs Vernon Williams
Get down from there this minute.
Baldwin
Sit down, you traitor.
Cry-Baby(singing)
When you say stop, I say go, cat, go. We're high school hellcats.
Drapes(singing)
On our own.
Cry-Baby(singing)
High school hellcats.
Baldwin
Cry-Baby!
Drapes(singing)
On our own...
Mrs Vernon Williams
What are you doing?
Cry-Baby(singing)
.Wish you would. We love being bad.
Pepper(singing)
'Cos it feels so good.
Pepper
Uh-uh. Yes.
Cry-Baby(singing)
USA, the land of the free. We should be what we want to be. But everyone says we should be like them.
Cry-Baby & Allison(singing)
But we're high school hellcats and we never fit in.
Cry-Baby(singing)
We're high school hellcats...
Mrs Vernon Williams
Allison, Help! Help me!
Cry-Baby(singing)
Come on and pick a fight, we wish you would. We love being bad.
Drapes(singing)
'Cos it sure feels good.
Cry-Baby(singing)
We're high school hellcats. We're high school hellcats. Come on a pick a fight, we wish you would. We love being bad,
'cos it sure feels good. We love being bad, 'cos it sure feels good.
Baldwin
Turn the wheel!
Cry-Baby(singing)
'Cos it sure feels good.
Baldwin
Chicken!
Cry-Baby
Yeah!