Ruthie Ann Miles in The Seat of Our Pants . Photo: Joan Marcus Ruthie Ann Miles’s musical-theater career has been a study in grieving mothers. Not long after becoming one of the most exciting theater actresses in the world when she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Tony for her work in The King and I , the performer left Broadway for five years. On March 16, 2018, her daughter, Abigail, 4, died after they were both hit by a car in Brooklyn. Miles survived, but was expecting at the