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Overview
Synopsis
Ruthless is the story of a naive 1950s housewife, Judy, and her adorable but sociopath 8-year-old daughter Tina. Encouraged by her manager, Sylvia, Tina will do ANYTHING to get the lead role in her school play “including murdering the leading lady!" In Act II, while Tina spends time at a reform school for psychopathic ingenues, Judy discovers from her adoptive mother that her birth mother was a famous actress. Judy decides that she should be famous as well and becomes a Broadway diva.
Show Information
- Book
- Joel Paley
- Music
- Marvin Laird
- Lyrics
- Joel Paley
- Category
- Musical
- Age Guidance
- Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
- Number of Acts
- 2
- First Produced
- 1992
- Genres
- Comedy, Dark Comedy, Parody
- Time & Place
- 1950s
- Cast Size
- small
- Ideal For
- All-Female Cast, Includes Child, Adult, Mature Adult, Young Adult Characters, Small Cast
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near New York, NY
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