Ruthless!!The Musical

[Unknown User]

Ruthless!!The Musical#0

Posted: 8/12/05 at 4:43pm

I've been searching high and low for this cd. No one has it. I've listened to a couple of songs on BWW radio. Is the whole cd good?

[Hanna from Hamburg]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#1

Posted: 8/12/05 at 4:43pm

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this CD.

". . . POP . . ."

[Unknown User]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#2

Posted: 8/12/05 at 4:44pm

I should have bought it when I had the chance.

[Hanna from Hamburg]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#3

Posted: 8/12/05 at 4:44pm

check PM

". . . POP . . ."

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#4

Posted: 8/12/05 at 4:45pm

LOVE IT! Joan is a friend of mine and I actually copied her second act dress and used to perform her solo in Act II in my caberet show.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Hanna from Hamburg]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#5

Posted: 8/12/05 at 4:46pm

I SWEAR more theatre companies need to do Gypsy and then follow it up with Ruthless.

". . . POP . . ."

[WonderBoy]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#6

Posted: 8/12/05 at 5:41pm

OMG! That is a great idea!!!

"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds." ~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns

[Hanna from Hamburg]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#7

Posted: 8/12/05 at 5:44pm

Actually, as I rethink it, Gypsy, Applause, THEN Ruthless! Covers most of the bases and makes the jokes in Ruthless funnier.

". . . POP . . ."

[StephanietheStar]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#8

Posted: 8/12/05 at 7:26pm

My college did this show last Fall..it was fantastic....

I sooooo wanted to be Judy/Ginger...I'm so sad I wasn't

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

[shira467]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#9

Posted: 8/12/05 at 9:15pm

It's positively hilarious -- I did the show, and played Sylvia St. Croix.

Deet: Shira, I Love You!

[roquat]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#10

Posted: 8/12/05 at 11:33pm

It's a marvellous show--I did a basement production of it where the actors just went with it...added more quotes and references beyond the script...when the monster child Tina and her mother were arguing, Tina yelled, "And I am not...one of your...FANS!!!" a la "Mommie Dearest." I've seen this CD in Borders--it must be available online.

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

[Unknown User]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#11

Posted: 8/13/05 at 12:46am

I've looked for it everywhere. Online.

and isn't Sylvia supposed to be a guy in drag?

[CastAlbumFan]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#12

Posted: 8/13/05 at 7:50am

http://www.footlight.com . $18.95.

The song Tina's rival sang had me in stitches!

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

[magruder]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#13

Posted: 8/13/05 at 8:34am

I prefer the B movie title treatment of the original Off-Broadway production...

EDITED TO SAY: Sorry! I meant to put this in the "I Hate Musicals" thread. But isn't it nice to see it?

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

Updated On: 8/13/05 at 08:34 AM

[roquat]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#14

Posted: 8/13/05 at 11:47am

Sylvia is often played by a guy in drag, but any combination is possible--the second time I did it, Sylvia, Tina, Lita, and Eve/Louise were ALL played by guys in drag, and it was hysterical (although the girl who played Miss Thorn out-camped them all).

I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

[StephanietheStar]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#15

Posted: 8/13/05 at 3:04pm

"--TINA TAKE THE THIRD CHORUS!!! Tina:You may say I'm motherless but I must disagree for I live in my mother and my mother lives in me!"

Louise--"How d'ya do? my name is Pippy P-I-P-P-I!"
Ms. Thorn---"P-I-P-P-Y!"
Louise---"oh! 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 (*can't remember what comes next!*)...BUT I don't give a lick!
Ms. Thorn--"SING OUT LOUISE!!!"

I friggin love this show!

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

[Thenardier]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#16

Posted: 8/13/05 at 3:06pm

Who sings (character wise) IT WILL NEVER BE THAT WAY AGAIN and, well, what happens in ACT TWO?

Mama Korey

The Beauty Is: Kelli O'Hara Online

[StephanietheStar]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#17

Posted: 8/13/05 at 3:08pm

Ginger Del Marco!!! my favorite song!

"I'm A STAAAAAR!! Now people LOVE me...from HELL TO MAINE!" hehehe

and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...

[magruder]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#18

Posted: 8/13/05 at 3:12pm

Incidentally, the line about "I had enough trouble with the Pippi people over the damn rights!" is not too far off from the truth. When it began previews Off-Broadway, they couldn't use the character name of Pippi, so she became Lippy Popsticky. So the "Lippy Song" had a verse that went, "My first name is Lippy, the second's kinda tricky/But Tricky's not the name/The name is Popsticky!"

Some other lines got dropped here and there in the various versions from New York to Chicago to L.A. Miss Thorn, in her speech about who is going to play the lead in the school show made mention that the winner would get a fabulous all expenses paid trip to New York City, "where she'll dine at the world famous Mamma Leone's...and see Cats. If she wants to." There was also a little Lerman Hardware jingle ... which I don't think is in the show anymore. "When you've got that yen for lumber/Grab the phone and call this number/PI-lgrim 5-4-4-4-4 ... 4. The extra '4' is '4'...lumber."

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

Updated On: 8/13/05 at 03:12 PM

[magruder]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#19

Posted: 8/13/05 at 3:22pm

SPOILERS BELOW





Tina's mother discovers she's the daughter of legendary star, Ruth Del Marco, and goes off to New York to become a big Broadway star, Ginger Del Marco. After killing her rival in Act One, Tina is sentenced to the Daisy Clover School for Psychopathic Ingenues, but when Act Two is taking place, she's free, and shows up on her mother's doorstep. There's much drama between mother and daughter, and then Sylvia St. Croix reveals herself to be none other than the legendary Ruth Del Marco. There's a brief family reunion, until a scuffle ensues over who'll play one of the roles in Ginger's next show. Long story short, Tina ends up killing everyone onstage before going off to LA to become a sitcom star. The end.

Remembered one other bit from Act Two that was cut that I loved...

Sylvia St. Croix seeing Tina for the first time after she's been freed from Daisy Clover, with her short cropped bob haircut, in place of her long flowing blonde hair from Act One.

"Tina...You're here. You're home. Your HAIR!"

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

Updated On: 8/13/05 at 03:22 PM

[Hanna from Hamburg]

re: Ruthless!!The Musical#20

Posted: 8/13/05 at 4:16pm

They must have gotten the Pippi problems resolved while it was still in NY (or just performed it with Pippi anyway) because it was in when I saw it including the Pippi wig (which was a big part of the show).

Stephanie -- the missing lyric is "never learned arithmetic."

While I think the show would work well with all characters in drag, I think it adds too much of a camp feel to a piece that has enough in just the material. Silvia St. Croix as a drag queen works well, but it was played by a female in NY when I saw it. It's SUCH a great female ensemble piece that isn't performed as much as I think it should be. It has 2 piano accompaniment and could easily be produced on a tight budget.

". . . POP . . ."

[magruder]

Pippi#21

Posted: 8/13/05 at 5:33pm

Yes, by the time the show opened in NY, they were able to use the name Pippi Longstocking. But even as Lippy Popsticky, Louise Lerman wore a Pippi-esque red wig.

"Gif me the cobra jool!"