Well, I just realized something today, after knowing about and listening to
Ruthless! The Musical! since it was first released in 1994...seventeen years ago:
SPOILERS!! There's a lot of back-stabbing and murder and the characters are ruthless in getting what they want. Judy Denmark (Tina's mother) has no mother of her own (or so she thinks) and in the second act, she becomes Ginger Del Marco. Sylvia St. Croix, the talent scout, turns out to be the former Ruth Del Marco AND Judy's mother (I hope I got that right)! But for all those years, Judy had no mother, so that made
her Ruth-less! I never made that connection!
