Original Star Tracy Jai Edwards Returns to RUTHLESS! Tonight

Original cast member Tracy Jai Edwards returns to Off-Broadway's RUTHLESS! tonight (June 20) in the dual roles of Eve Allabout and Louise Lerman. The show was recently extended through September 10th. Tracy is set to appear on Broadway later this season in the new Jerry Mitchell musical GOTTA DANCE, with rehearsals beginning in January. Her other Broadway credits include HAIRSPRAY and LEGALLY BLONDE, and she has appeared on TV in "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "White Collar" and "Mercy."

Book and lyrics for RUTHLESS! are by Joel Paley with music by Marvin Laird. Paley also directed the original 1992 incarnation of the show as well as productions in L.A., South Beach and the record-breaking concert event starring Bernadette Peters. He once again serves as director of the new production, with Marvin Laird on board as music supervisor.

When THE BAD SEED meets GYPSY, it's fun for the whole dysfunctional family! Tina Denmark is a pretty, charming and demonic third-grader who "was born to entertain." With the encouragement of slick and overbearing potential agent Sylvia St. Croix, Tina will do anything to play the lead in her school play. The question is, where does such remarkable talent and unstoppable ambition come from? The answer is shocking in this Stage Mother of all musicals.

Also featured in the cast of RUTHLESS! are Kim Maresca (Westport's TWELFTH NIGHT), Paul Pecorino (DEVIL BOYS FROM BEYOND, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW), Rita McKenzie (ETHEL MERMAN'S BROADWAY, RUTHLESS! L.A.), Andrea McCullough (URINETOWN, GREASE), and introducing Tori Murray (READY OR NOT, HERE I COME! at Feinstein's/54 Below).

RUTHLESS! is produced Off-Broadway by Maxine Paul, Evan Sacks and Ken Schur. The playing schedule is Mondays at 8 PM, Thursdays at 7 PM and Saturdays at 2 PM at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46 Street (just west of Eighth Ave.)

Photo Credit: Walter McBride