The original John Waters film on which the musical is based
Director Scott Miller's background and analysis essay about Cry-Baby to be included in his next book
The New Liners' Cry-Baby Blogs, chronicling the creative process
The podcast My Favorite Murder, and the true crime that inspired John Waters' Cry-Baby film
A New York Times preview of the Broadway production
A great NPR interview with the Cry-Baby songwriters
Some of the Cry-Baby songs, on a webpage for a tour that never happened
The official John Waters Dreamland website
John Waters' own words about his work, in the books Crackpot, Shock Value, and John Waters: Interviews -- also a very recent blog interview with Waters.
John Waters on Artsy.net
The films Jailhouse Rock,The Wild One, and Rebel Without a Cause
The webpage 1954: The People's History, another webpage about the 1950s, and The Memory Lane website's 1954 page
An entire 1954 issue of Life magazine online, including a story on the polio vaccine!
The official website for The Hi-Lo's, the model for Cry-Baby's Whiffles
David Halberstam's outstanding book The Fifties, and the book The 1950s' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Rock & Roll Rebels, Cold War Crises, and All American Oddities