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"There is no such thing as naturalism in the theatre, merely degrees of stylization," Edward Albee once observed. If nothing else, the musical version of John Waters's 1990 film "Cry-Baby" (directed by Mark Brokaw, at the Marquis) is a lesson in careful, moderate style. Set in Baltimore in the nineteen-fifties, "Cry-Baby" is about two young lovers: Allison (Elizabeth Stanley), a pampered good girl, and Wade (James Snyder), a guitar-wielding, leather-jacket-wearing member of a gang of ruffians known as the Drapes. Wade was orphaned when both of his parents were executed for a crime that they didn't commit; after they died, he was nicknamed Cry-Baby. ("I cried when my ...