Boobs! The Musical: The World According to Ruth Wallis
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 19, 2003
Closed Feb 8, 2004
Opened May 19, 2003
Closed Feb 8, 2004
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Running Time:
1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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Boobs! The Musical: The World According to Ruth Wallis is based on the songs of 1950's and 60's vocal star & songwriter Ruth Wallis. The show romps through such naughty party song Wallis hits as "Davy's Dinghy," "Ugly Man With Money" and "I Need A Man of My Own." The musical revue has a book by Steve Mackes and Michael Whaley and is directed by Donna Drake and choreographed by Lawrence Leritz.
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Before Marilyn Monroe declared diamonds to be a girl's best friend, Ruth Wallis said the same thing of boobs. This was risqué stuff for the 1940s. Vendors stored Wallis's records in paper bags underneath counters; Australian customs officers confiscated her material in accordance with obscenity laws. Not only did this raunchy broad write and sing about the human anatomy, she broached taboo topics like cross-dressing and marital infidelity.
How do Wallis's music and lyrics stand up today? This is the question that the producers of Boobs! The Musical set out to answer. Everything about the production suggests that Ruth Wallis is not just a historical curiosity. The treatment resists vi[...]