RUTHLESS!
RUTHLESS!
bwaybound865
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/05
#0RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 12:18amHas anyone a production of the show Ruthless! the musical. If you have could anyone tell me anything direction wise that you thought was really cool. Or anything that the actors did with their characters that just really cool. I really need you guys on this one, Thanks!
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#1re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 12:20amI love Ruthless...Miss Otis (is that her name) is an Ethel Merman imitator.
bwaybound865
Stand-by Joined: 5/30/05
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#3re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 7:50am
No, the character's name is Lita Encore. "Miss Otis Regrets," which is in the lyrics to "I Hate Musicals" is a song by Cole Porter.
And Rita McKenzie, who played the role in Los Angeles, is known for her Merman impersonation, but the role was not played that way in the New York company.
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#4re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 12:31pmThis show is basically a long Carol Burnett skit. All of the characters are big and dramatic in a very forties-Hollywood way. I was fortunate enough to do it twice--the second time, almost all the cast were men in drag. The thing that counts is large, outrageous choices. See the movies that inspired it ("Gypsy", "Mommie Dearest", "Valley of the Dolls", "All About Eve") and take that sensibility even further.
#5re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 3:18pmI love "The Pippi Song"!
#7re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 6:26pmAre there any pictures of professional productions? I've only seen the pictures on the cast recording.
alli2
Broadway Star Joined: 1/6/05
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#9re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 6:50pmGreat Show! I saw my friend Joan Ryan play Ginger in LA. She was FANTASTIC...But then, she always is.
#10re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 7:24pm
"I never went to school! Not once! a fact I can't deny. I never learned to read or write, I can't spell hermaphrodite."
LMAO..I friggin love this show, we did it last year...
I have pics from ours somewhere, college though,not professional, though it looks bettr than most professional ones I think :)
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#11re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 7:26pmi did that in a troupe a few years ago as Tina. hehe i got to kill someone! that was fun! I love ruthless *pokes the little signature thing* i use born to entertain for lots of auditions
#12re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/11/05 at 7:52pmIf anyone has pictures, could you please send a link? Thanks!
Jenista
Swing Joined: 1/9/04
#13re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/12/05 at 11:26am
I was in the UK Premiere of Ruthless in London a couple of years ago and it was one of the best experiences of my performing life. I think it is one of the funniest book musicals ever written and provides incredibly juicy roles for women! I love it!
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#14re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/12/05 at 11:32am
Found a shot of original New York cast members Laura Bundy (Tina), Joel Vig (Sylvia St. Croix) and Donna English (in her Act Two Ginger Del Marco costume) on Laura Bundy's website.
#15re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/12/05 at 12:42pmMy college did this last year, it was hilarious! One of my favorite productions that they did. They had a picture of the little girl blown up into a huge portrait that hung in the living room at the beginning. Every time the lights went out her eyes would glow red! haha, that made me laugh. :)
ianacts
Swing Joined: 10/21/03
#16re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/12/05 at 12:55pm
" Teaching third Grade
Shaping the lives of a New Generation
No Longer
Afriad to get on with my life
and Off Medication"
it's the campiest musical ever written. full of refrences to old movies and some musicals. very good lyrics and a two piano score.
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#17re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/12/05 at 4:30pm
i love "mothers and daughters"
my line: why should i cry? i didnt get killed!
was So fun to say. its such a creepy little girl line
#18re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:11pm
Here's a pic from a DC area production....Sylvia looks really mannish lol.
Penny4Eyes
Stand-by Joined: 9/11/05
#20re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/12/05 at 5:23pm
LMAO..that's cuz Slyvia is played by a man...ahhaa
almost always....ours was our costume designer...
I want to find our pics now!
WriteInNYC
Chorus Member Joined: 10/1/05
#21re: RUTHLESS!
Posted: 10/12/05 at 7:39pmWhat a great little show! I saw it three times during its New York run. The style was very much in the vein of the melodramatic films from the 40's and 50's, primarily "The Bad Seed," which by today's standards is fairly over the top. The show had salutes to everything from Bette Davis' films to "Gypsy" to every Judy Garland performance ever. The very talented Joel Vig played Sylvia, but not as a man in a dress, he played her honestly and hilariously--the entire cast was impeccable.
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