STAGE TUBE: John Waters wishes New Line Theatre a 'Happy, Insane, Wild, Screwed Up, Alternative, Diverse, Multiracial' 25th Season

Legendarily transgressive film director and screenwriter John Waters, whose cult favorites HAIRSPRAY and CRY-BABY were both reconceived as Broadway musicals, takes a few minutes to wish St. Louis' New Line Theatre a happy 25th season in his own distinctive style.

Waters also takes a moment to pitch his new theatre project, something guaranteed to delight and offend millions.

"The bad boy of musical theatre," New Line mounted the American regional premiere of CRY-BABY in 2012 and will begin its 25th season with the regional premiere of HEATHERS.

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New Line Theatre, "The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre," was created in 1991, at the vanguard of a new wave of nonprofit musical theatre being born across the country during the early 1990s, offering an alternative to the commercial musical theatre of New York and Broadway tours. The New Liners believe in what Broadway and film actor Laurence Luckinbill once wrote in a letter to artistic director Scott Miller: "Go broke if you must, but always over-estimate the public's intelligence. They will thank you for it."

The only company of its kind in the country, New Line was founded to involve the people of the region in the creation and exploration of provocative, alternative, politically and socially relevant works of musical theatre - daring, muscular, intelligent theatre about politics, race, violence, drugs, sexuality, religion, art, obscenity, the media, and other contemporary issues.

And a lot of four-letter words. And every now and then, a little nudity. And lots of rock and roll.

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