(Alan), Bernadette Hisey (Arlene), David Robeano (Nick) and Maggie Stahl-Floriano (Pam) under the direction of Fred Sternfeld. The production won ten Cleveland Times Tribute Awards for Outstanding Theatre in 2010. Showbiz Theatre Company in Stockton, California, presented the Music Theatre International production of Baby from March 29 to April 14, 2019. The cast featured Mary Peterson (Arlene), Tayler Thompson (Lizzie), Karene Vocque (Pam), Cole Bryant (Nick), Jason Kell (Alan), and Asante Azevedo (Danny). The production was directed by Jon Robinson with Assistant Director Christine Martin, Choreographer Adam Green, Lighting Designer Nikki Pendley, Sound Designer Craig Vincent, Scenic Designer Tony Parker, and Costume Designer Kathie Dixon. Out of the Box Theatrics, New York, presented a modern off Broadway version of the musical featuring Pam and Nick Sakarian (originally heterosexual) as a lesbian couple on December 10, 2019. It was directed and choreographed by Ethan Paulini. The cast featured Alice Ripley (Arlene), Gabrielle McClinton (Nicki), Christina Sajous (Pam), Evan Ruggeiro (Danny), Elizabeth Flemming (Lizzie) and Robert H. Fowler (Alan). International The first Australian production of Baby was staged at the Suncorp Theatre in Brisbane, for the Royal Queensland Theatre Company from February through March 1986. The cast included Patrick Phillips as Danny, Rhonda Burchmore as Pam and Geraldine Morrow as Arlene. Baby was staged at the Meralco Theatre in Manila from August 18 through September 5, 2004. The cast included Lea Salonga in the role of Lizzie Fields and David Shannon as Danny. A Brazilian production opened on May 15, 2011, starring Tadeu Aguiar, Sylvia Massari, Olavo Cavalheiro, Sabrina Korgut, Daíra Sabóia, André Dias and Amanda Acosta. Response Critical reception Frank Rich, theatre critic for The New York Times, wrote, "At a time when nearly every Broadway musical, good and bad, aims for the big kill with gargantuan pyrotechnics, here is a modestly scaled entertainment that woos us with such basic commodities as warm feelings, an exuberant cast and a lovely score. Perfect Baby is not, but it often makes up in buoyancy and charm what it lacks in forceful forward drive... Sybille Pearson has chosen her characters as if she were a pollster in search of a statistical cross-section of modern (and uniformly model) parents. Worse, this writer... values hit-and-miss one-liners over substance... Miss Pearson is also fond of such plot contrivances as mixed-up lab reports, and, in Act II, the story runs out altogether. The last trimester for the mothers