This summer, Mike Doughty makes his Broadway debut with Ruby Vroom:
The Musical, a stage adaptation of the first Soul Coughing album, with
book by Tim Rice and choreography by Twyla Tharp.
Ruby
Vroom: The Musical tells the story of Ruby (Scarlett Johansson), a
transgendered youth growing up in 1970s Chicago. After a botched,
self-administered sex change operation, Ruby enters a series of
ill-fated love affairs, all set to the musical backdrop of her caustic
avant-punk trio, The 5% Nation. Convinced that one of her lovers is
Satan, she travels from Chicago to Kansas, Detroit and eventually Los
Angeles, where she is sidetracked by drugs, mad kidnapping plots and
the tawdry allure of the Hollywood lifestyle. And just when she is
about to succumb to bitterness, an older woman, Janine (Patti LuPone),
enters her life and changes everything.
Press previews
for Ruby Vroom: The Musical will begin in late June at the St. James
Theater on West 44th St., with a public opening in mid-July. Says Mike,
currently on tour with his band, "I am immensely excited about the
opportunity to work with the fabulous Ms. LuPone. She is the bucket of
shoes in my foyer."
For ticket information, see http://www.rubyvroomtickets.com/
I wish I had seen this on the day instead of randomly hearing about it on 103.1 WRNR and then stealing it from some blog. But ah well. I was busy working another temp job and having a girlfriend the entire day.