Buckle up for Ruthless! The Musical, the hilariously twisted comedy where the spotlight can be deadly, launching\u00a0Island City Stage\u2019s 14thSouth Florida Season\u00a0on November 6. Meet eight-year-old Tina Denmark\u2014a pint-sized diva who knows she was destined to play Pippi Longstocking in her school musical, and if she has to knock off the competition to get the part? Well, that\u2019s showbiz! This Off-Broadway cult favorite is a deliciously campy satire packed with sharp wit, outrageous twists, and over-the-top characters. The show will run through December 7.<\/p>\n
The book and lyrics of\u00a0Ruthless! The Musical\u00a0are by\u00a0Joel Paley, music by\u00a0Marvin Laird, and the production is directed by Island City Stage\u2019s Artistic Director,\u00a0Andy Rogow.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people ask me about\u00a0Ruthless! The Musical,\u00a0I say, \u2018Imagine a mash up of\u00a0The Bad Seed,\u00a0All About Eve\u00a0and\u00a0Gypsy,\u2019 and they immediately start laughing,\u201d said\u00a0Rogow. \u201cEvery time\u00a0Ruthless!\u00a0The Musical\u00a0has been produced in South Florida it has won Carbonell Awards because the roles in it are gold mines for musical theatre performers. Island City Stage has been fortunate to assemble a truly gifted cast chock full of award-winning South Florida musical theatre stars.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruthless! The Musical\u00a0opened at the Players Theatre in New York City\u2019s Greenwich Village on March 13,\u00a01992\u00a0and ran for 342 performances. The lead role of Tina was originally played by nine-year-old Laura Bell Bundy, best known today as a highly successful country music artist and TV, stage and screen actress. A bit of trivia: two other stars of tomorrow, Natalie Portman and Britney Spears, served as understudies for the original production. The show won the 1993 New York Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. The show opened in Los Angeles in 1993, in Miami in 1995 and in London in 2002, among many other venues since then.<\/p>\n
Island City Stage\u2019s production of\u00a0Ruthless! The Musical\u00a0stars nine-year-old child actressDaisyTanner\u00a0(Tina Denmark),\u00a0Lindsey Corey\u00a0(Judy\/Ginger),\u00a0Leah Sessa\u00a0(Louise\/Eve),\u00a0Maribeth Graham\u00a0(Miss Thorn\/Reporter),\u00a0Michael Ursua (Sylvia St. Croix) and\u00a0Aaron Bower\u00a0(Lita).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buckle up for Ruthless! The Musical, the hilariously twisted comedy where the spotlight can be deadly, launching\u00a0Island City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-6839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}