Ruthless!

Ruthless! The Musical is an all female musical with music by Marvin Laird and book and lyrics by Joel Paley that spoofs Broadway musicals, like Gypsy and Mame, and movies such as The Bad Seed and All About Eve. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 1992.

Production history

The musical opened off-Broadway at the Players Theatre on March 13, 1992 and closed January 24, 1993 after 342 performances. It was directed by Joel Paley with musical direction by Marvin Laird. (Laird was later the musical director for the Broadway revivals of Annie Get Your Gun (1999) and Gypsy (2003)). The central role of Tina was played by Laura Bell Bundy, and featured Natalie Portman and Britney Spears as understudies.

Ruthless! The Musical was then produced in Los Angeles at the Canon Theatre, where it opened on November 15, 1993. A recording was made by the 1993 Los Angeles cast on Varèse Sarabande and released on March 29, 1994.

The show won the 1993 New York Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. The musical has had a number of professional productions, particularly in regional theatre. Ruthless! The Musical played at the Colony Theatre, Miami, Florida, in January and February 1995, directed by Paley.

Ruthless

Ruthless can refer to:

See also

Ruthless (Bizzy Bone album)

Ruthless is a solo album released by Bizzy Bone on March 4, 2008.

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Lies Agreed Upon

Lies Agreed Upon is an documentary produced by Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence in response to a documentary aired by Channel 4, named Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The documentary gives the Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence response to war crimes accusations and rebuts points made by the producers of the Channel 4 documentary, who presented it as "a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers." "Lies Agreed Upon" was first aired at an official function held at Hilton Hotel, Colombo on 1 August 2011, one and half months after the broadcasting of "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields". Ministry of Defence released another report named Humanitarian Operation – Factual Analysis : July 2006 – May 2009 on the same day.

The documentary shows a number of interviews given by ex-LTTE cadres, ex-IDPs, residents of Vanni area, government doctors who worked inside the LTTE held territory during the period etc. It also includes criticism of the eyewitnesses produced by the Channel 4 video and the alleged "trophy videos" by Sri Lankan soldiers. International Crisis Group reacted to the documentary stating, government’s challenge to Channel 4′s reporting is far from the successful refutation, and raises more questions than it answers. In November 2013 Channel 4 showed No Fire Zone, a further documentary examining the last 138 days of the war which challenged the government narrative and which included further evidence of the Sri Lankan government's brutality. Though the government barred independent journalists from the No Fire Zones during the endgame of the conflict, mobile phones, used by both victims and perpetrators, captured the story.

Ruthless (Ace Hood album)

Ruthless is the second studio album by American rapper Ace Hood. It was released on June 30, 2009, by We the Best Music Group and Def Jam Recordings. The album debuted at number 23 on the US Billboard 200, selling 19,700 copies in its first week.

Singles

The album's first single, "Overtime" featuring T-Pain and Akon, was released on May 19, 2009. The production on the song was handled by The Runners, while it was co-produced by Kevin Cossom.

The album's second single, "Champion" featuring Jazmine Sullivan and Rick Ross, was released on June 16, 2009. The production team The Runners, would once again produced this song, this time alongside with the production handled by Carvin & Ivan.

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Ruthless (horse)

Ruthless (1864–1876) was an American Thoroughbred filly and a National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame-inducted racehorse. She is best known as the winner of the inaugural Belmont Stakes.

Early life

Owned and bred by Francis Morris of New York, and was foaled on Morris' farm at Throgg's Neck, New York. Ruthless was sired by the imported stallion Eclipse (born 1854) and out of the imported mare Barbarity who also produced several other award-winning daughters collectively known as the "Barbarous Battalion". The other "Battalion" members, all full sisters, were Remorseless, Relentless, Regardless, and Merciless. Barbarity was an 1854 bay mare sired by Simoon and her dam was named Dam who was sired by Buzzard, Eclipse was sired by Orlando and out of the mare Gaze by Bay Middleton. and was imported at the same time as Eclipse.

Racing career

As a two-year-old, Ruthless won the Nursery Handicap in 1866. This was the inaugural running of the race, which took place at Jerome Park Racetrack and was a 1 mile (1,600 meters) race restricted to two-year-olds. Her jockey was Davidson and she carried 97 pounds (44 kilograms) for the win. Second place was Maid of Honor and third was Monday. The value to the winner was $2,450 (approximately $40,000 as of 2016) and the winning time was 1 minute 49 seconds. She won by six lengths, and the correspondent for the New York Times commented that she finished the race "galloping along as if she was at exercise".