The Sharks and the Jets have nothing on these exes.
Hot-shot Broadway producer Tony Ponturo’s “Bronx Bombers” opens Feb. 6, but ex-wife Ruthe isn’t pining away for him from the Upper East Side duplex they once shared.
She has a show of her own, “Til Divorce Do Us Part,” which begins previews the very next day.
“He’s probably surprised that I’m able to pull it off,” according to Ruthe, 64, who said she hasn’t spoken to Tony in more than a year. “I was never the one who had to raise money or anything.”
In 2011, Tony, 61, dumped her after 34 years of marriage for auburn-locked knockout Fran Kirmser, 42, his leggy producing partner.
“He was very open about it — he didn’t sneak around,” she noted.
But instead of being les misérable, Ruthe sold off the jewelry Tony gave her to finance a tell-all show then titled “Divorce — The Musical.” It debuted in September 2012 at the Triad Theatre on the Upper West Side and , in which Ruthe also starred, was such a success that she managed to raise $700,000 to take the show Off-Broadway to the DR2 Theatre in Union Square.
“He never even wished me well,” Ruthe recalled.
It’s no wonder, since the play included 25 barbed ditties such as “Bitter Pill,” with the lines “That brain behind your zipper/Made you a liar and pretty mean/You’d better get Viagra/To fill out those designer jeans.”
The revamped production, for which she’s the choreographer and lyricist, features songs from the original, and new ones as well, such as “Wedding Vows,” which goes: “I said ’til death do us part/I meant it/But he understood it to mean/’Til I meet someone else I like better some day/And you, my dear wife, I’ll just throw you away.”
Ruthe’s play is just a 12-minute train ride from Tony’s production at the Circle in the Square Theater on Broadway.
Tony, who produced the Tony Award-winning musical, “Memphis,” as well as “Lombardi,” didn’t return a call for comment.
Don’t expect Ruthe to be in the audience at his latest premiere.
“It’s another sports play — not a play that I would probably be interested in seeing,” she sniffed.
“It opened at Primary Stages in the fall, and it didn’t get great reviews, so I was surprised when he moved it to Broadway.”
Erin Maguire, the ginger-maned actress-comedienne now playing Ruthe, was even more direct.
“Here’s hoping for a bomb for them!” she crowed.
Happily married Maguire, 37, called Ruthe an inspiration.
“She took her pain and turned it into something to share to the world,” Maguire said.
And if it wasn’t for Tony’s wandering eye — none of it would be possible.
“One woman’s jilted love has spurred employment for so many people — if misery can be made into money, I guess this is it,” she observed.