Back in 1968, a small musical
opened Off-Broadway where it played for 575 performances. With music by Jim
Wise and book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, it was an homage
to the golden age of movie musicals.
The show “tells the story of Ruby,
who steps off a bus from Utah and into her first Broadway show. But hours
before the opening night curtain is set to rise, the cast learns that their
theater is being demolished. With the help of some adoring sailors, Ruby and
the cast set a plan in motion to perform the show in a naval battleship.”
Now, it seems that this musical is
Broadway bound, with a planned opening for 2014. The show will be directed and choreographed
by Randy Skinner, who had already shown his production at the Infinity Theatre
Company in Annapolis, MD, in 2012. Skinner got Tony nominations for his work in “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”,
“42nd Street” and “Ain’t Broadway Grand.”
The original Off-Broadway
production gave us a delightful cast recording featuring Bernadette Peters in
one of her first roles and was also produced for television in 1971 starring Ann-Margret
and Ann Miller, that unfortunately I never saw.
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