DR FJL - re: the humor in DRS and CB - Gotcha. Strangely(?) enough, I thought the humor in CB needed to be a bit cruder and ruder - much closer to the original movie - where a lot of it was actually just "real" - at least John Waters' version of Baltimore reality. DRS's bad taste humor was, at least, imho, smartly done, and had an edge to it. As for CB, a lot of seemed to go for the "let's shock them" laughs; I actually caught myself groaning out loud a few times. And book-wise, well... As they entered the final face-off (hope that's not a spoiler), I actually said, "Oh, no," out loud too. Spoo!
However, there is some great talent on that stage. I loved the girl who played Lenora, Alli Mauzey. And Christopher J. Hanke is just still so cute, cute, cute! (And not in a stupid-ass way.)