(previews start on Wednesday; opens on April 23) It's a rare wake in which the honoree is on the guest list, but just try keeping Miss Ruby down. In Lisa D'Amour's new play, direct from the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago to the Manhattan Theater Club, a community of outsiders and eccentrics congregates at a New Orleans motel to give this former burlesque queen a "living funeral." The director Joe Mantello oversees the boozy memorial.