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NYMF presents - The Road To Ruin Part II
Nov 10, 2022
Is America going to hell in a basket? Find out in THE ROAD TO RUIN (The 1928 Exploitation Musical), where sex delinquents, neglectful parents, blackmailing- nymphomaniacs, bottled water and corporate Christians conspire to bring down Little Sally Canfield, 'The Nicest Girl at Central High.'
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Road to Ruin was part of a genre called Exploitation Films, which were all made by sort of
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Hollywood Bottom Featers. The most famous movie of the genre is for madness, and all the movies dealt with some sort
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of scurrilous subject matter, venereal disease, incest, cocaine abuse, and the road to
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ruin, which was the 1940 silent movie, tells the story of Little Sally Canfield, the
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nicest girl with Central High, through the course of the show, starts smoking. drinking, bobbing her hair, wearing makeup, and by the end of the show, she's a pro
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On the road to ruin. Ten years ago, my wife and I were down at Spring Lake, New Jersey
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and I found this little booklet that said, The Road to Ruin
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banned in three states, and mothers and fathers of America, beware. And I said, this is the funniest thing I've ever read
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I've ever read in my life. And it's a musical. And what I found out was that the Road to Ruin was a 1928 silent movie
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And what I had purchased was the synopsis of the movie. Good girl caught bad
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I'm Bill Zephro and I wrote The Road to Ruin. I'm the director of Rote to Ruin
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Mary Kate has been vastly improving it This is the fabulous Shay Sullivan She the choreography group And she was also the first person that I asked to join the team
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Yes, yes. Yes. Yes. ...in the slumber This dank and sad
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Is that too Egyptian? You're on this great show and part of the New York Music Meadeeer
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You know maybe I should talk about the cast We have this incredible group of people that have assembled to do the Road to Ruin
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And here we are with the lovely, the talented, the fabulous Christy McIntosh
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Christy, we're so happy to have you on the road to ruin
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I'm happy to be here. Now, Christy, don't you play a few characters in this show
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I do. I play Faith, the second nicest girl in Central High
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One British fellow, an Irish guy. Penelope, a desperate housewife, and an abortion nurse
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A woman named Prudence, several others that I'm trying to remember. Ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to the fabulous John O'Cray
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the fabulously talented Anne Morrison. Or Annie to some people Lori Hamill Hello Christina Fadale Hello Lori is on the road to ruin I am I been waiting to go on the road to ruin all my life and finally Bill Zephyr was giving me the opportunity
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Christina played Maureen in rent for five years? Uh, yeah, pretty much
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Five years, she jumped over the moon. I did, I did. Haven't I had you on the road to ruin since 2004
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Since the first cobblestones fell off the truck. I was there. You want to know about Road to Ruin
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You want to know about many things. You want to know why I'm here. Yes. I'm having fun
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That's why I'm here. And now we have her in the Road to Ruin. Christina has been there from day one
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Yeah. I think you were there and we had about 30 pages. That's right. It's grown exponentially
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It was Christina's voice that rang in my ears. Lucky for me as I started to write this part
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You wrote a wonderful piece, by the way. Well, thank you. It's totally fun. Just come out and see this wonderful piece
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You can always earn a little. a buck on your back. How's the rehearsal process been going? Great
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It's a little frenetic because when you first hear you have 30 hours a week, four weeks
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especially when all you've been doing is readings. I think I had the luxury of 10 hours of rehearsal last year in LA
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And I wish we had another hundred, but it's going to be great
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Those are the sounds of Radithor in there. As long as you're hearing it, I may as well tell you what Radithor was. was
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Raid a Thor Ray to Thor energizing your every poor In every year American Heritage does an issue the best and worst medical breakthroughs of all time
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And in 1999, the American Heritage had as the worst medical breakthrough of all time was Radithor
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And I started reading about this, what Radithor was. and will never age
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People would drink it in the 20s to lose weight, to give them more energy, more get up and go
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It was supposed to cure epilepsy. It was supposed to basically cure everything
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The trouble was, after people drank it for a couple of years, they started to develop holes in their skull
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their hair started to fall out, their teeth fell out, and they talked like this
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because every bottle of Radithor contained one microchury of pure, pure radium. Yes, people were guzzling radium. So my idea when I found out about it was
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why not have little Sally Canfield's family and all the ladies of the town guzzling this stuff
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like iced tea. So that is one of our subplots in the show and they are currently rehearsing
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it as we speak. Radithor, Radithor, energizing your every pore, epilepsy, or epilepsy, and we're, and we're
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Or losing weight, simply radiate. Radith Thor, what's it for
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