Roundabout’s EVERYDAY RAPTURE ends limited engagement July 11

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY

EVERYDAY RAPTURE

Will conclude its limited engagement on Sunday, July 11^th at 2:00PM

“A smashing show that reminds us why so many of us keep going back to Broadway.

Sherie Rene Scott has never shined brighter or more illuminatingly.” – Ben Brantley, New York Times

“Scott has a bold, brassy voice and one of those quirky, expansive theater personalities that can really fill a stage.” – Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre

Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway production of Everyday Rapture, starring Sherie Rene Scott will end its limited engagement on Sunday, July 11^th at 2:00PM.

The critically acclaimed new Broadway musical was written by Dick Scanlan & Sherie Rene Scott and directed by Michael Mayer.

Everyday Rapture will have played 11 previews and 84 performances at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42^nd Street). The limited engagement will end on July 11^th, 2010.

Everyday Rapture is the story of a young woman’s psycho-sexual-spiritual journey on the rocky path that separates her mostly Mennonite past from her mostly Manhattan future. Her life takes her from the cornfields of Kansas to the clover fields of New York (with a disturbing detour through YouTube). Everyday Rapture also features songs made famous by David Byrne, Roberta Flack, Mister Rogers, The Supremes, Elton John, Tom Waits, U2 and Judy Garland.

The cast features Eamon Foley, Lindsay Mendez and Betsy Wolfe.

The artistic team includes: Choreography by Michele Lynch, orchestrations & arrangements by Tom Kitt, music supervision by Michael Rafter and music direction by Marco Paguia. The design team includes Christine Jones (Sets), Tom Broecker (Costumes), Kevin Adams (Lights), Brian Ronan (Sound) and Darrel Maloney (Projections).

The Everyday Rapture cast album is available from Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records.  www.sh-k-boom.com

TICKET INFORMATION:

Tickets are available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212)719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the American Airlines Box Office (227 West 42^nd Street).  To become a Roundabout subscriber visit www.roundabouttheatre.org or call Roundabout Ticket Services (212)719-1300.  Ticket prices range from $66.50 to $116.50.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Everyday Rapture plays tonight and Saturday evening at 8:00PM & Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00PM.

www.roundabouttheatre.org

Roundabout’s EVERYDAY RAPTURE launches fan lip synch contest.

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY

Announces a Broadway fan lip-synch contest

for

EVERYDAY RAPTURE 

Lip-synch your way to Semi-Semi Stardom!

“A smashing show that reminds us why so many of us keep going back to Broadway. Sherie Rene Scott has never shined brighter or more illuminatingly.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Fans of Everyday Rapture now have their shot at semi-semi stardom! 

Log on to www.facebook.com/RoundaboutTheatreCompany to submit a video of yourself lip synching a song from the musical before June 27^th.  One lucky winner will be chosen to receive two complimentary tickets to Everyday Rapture, a meet and greet with Sherie Rene Scott and the cast of Everyday Rapture, a cast album and a gift pack.  Song clips and the cast album are available for download on the submission site.

On Tuesday, June 15 the cast album will be wherever music is sold.  That same night, Sherie Rene Scott, Dick Scanlan and the cast of Everyday Rapture will be signing CDs at the American Airlines Theatre beginning at 8:30PM.

EVERYDAY RAPTURE in the news

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY 

Two Tony Nominations 

including Best Actress in a Musical

EVERYDAY RAPTURE

In the news

VOGUE.COM:CLICK HERE

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’s Tony Nominee’s Circle of Magic: CLICK HERE 

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL’s Foley’s Everyday Act: CLICK HERE 

BROADWAY.COM: CLICK HERE  
 
BROADWAYWORLD.COM:CLICK HERE 

“A smashing show that reminds us why so many of us keep going back to Broadway.

Sherie Rene Scott has never shined brighter or more illuminatingly.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“Scott has a bold, brassy voice and one of those quirky, expansive theater personalities that can really fill a stage.”  -Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

EVERYDAY RAPTURE’s Scott on WCBS 2 News

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY
 
EVERYDAY RAPTURE’s

Sherie Rene Scott

will be featured this weekend on 

WCBS 2 News

Sunday, May 30th

Between 8:30AM-9AM on channel 2 

“A smashing show that reminds us why so many of us keep going back to Broadway.  Sherie Rene Scott has never shined brighter or more illuminatingly.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times 

“Scott has a bold, brassy voice and one of those quirky, expansive theater personalities that can really fill a stage.”  -Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

On Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre

This weekend, Everyday Rapture’s Sherie Rene Scott, will appear on WCBS 2 News on Sunday, May 30th between 8:30AM-9AM on channel 2.  
 
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents Sherie Rene Scott starring in Everyday Rapture, the critically acclaimed new Broadway musical by Dick Scanlan & Sherie Rene Scott and directed by Michael Mayer.

Meet The Nominees – SHERIE RENE SCOTT, EVERYDAY RAPTURE – BEST LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

SHERIE RENE SCOTT

 

NOMINATIONS/WINS:

TONY Awards – Nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical 

 

LINKS: 

Production website: www.RoundaboutTheatre.org/EverydayRapture

Sk-K-Boom & cast album website: www.Sh-K-Boom.com

Twitter Page: www.twitter.com/RTC_NYC

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/RoundaboutTheatreCompany

YouTube.com Page: www.youtube.com/RTC

Wikipedia.org: www.wikipedia.org/SherieReneScott

TheaterMania: www.theatermania.com/EverydayRapture

Broadway.com: www.broadway.com/EverydayRapture

BIOGRAPHY:

SHERIE RENE SCOTT is honored to be working with Roundabout for the first time, after appearing at Second Stage Theater in Everyday Rapture, which she co-wrote with Dick Scanlan (Lortel nominations best musical and best actress.). She has created roles for the Original Broadway productions of The Little Mermaid (OCC nom), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations; Drama League honor), Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (Derwent Award, Drama League honor), Tommy and the original production of The Last Five Years (Drama Desk nomination, Drama League honor). Also appeared in: Landscape of the Body (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Drama League honor), Rent, Debbie Does Dallas, Randy Newman’s Faust, Kander & Ebb’s Over and Over (Helen Hayes nomination). She is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse. With husband Kurt Deutsch she co-founded Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight records (www.sh-k-boom.com) which has produced more than 70 albums, including the cast album of Everyday Rapture. Sh-K-Boom has received a Grammy Award, seven Grammy nominations and Drama Desk and New York Musical Theatre Festival awards for dedication to the preservation of musical theatre through cast recordings.

 

Sherie Rene Scott & Dick Scanlan talk about the show’s journey to Broadway

 

Everyday Rapture video montage

 

Read New York Times Arts & Leisure feature on SHERIE RENEE SCOTT: CLICK HERE 

Read ‘Sherie Rene Scott talks to The Star-Ledger’: CLICK HERE 

 

“Just as the Broadway theater season is drawing to its close, a smashing little show has arrived to remind us of why so many of us keep going back to Broadway.  I can’t think of another production in recent years that captures and explains so affectingly the essence and allure of musicals, and why they’re such an indispensable part of the New York landscape.  Written by Dick Scanlan and Ms. Scott, and directed with virtuoso efficiency and wit by Michael Mayer.  Ms. Scott performs with the sophistication that a New York audience (or rather an audience of New Yorkers) demands. And there’s no denying that when she sings, from a wildly diverse song list, she’s polished and inventive. Ms. Scott naturally translates life size into bigger than life.  The orchestrations and arrangements for the first-rate onstage band are by Tom Kitt (the composer of Next to Normal). And her director is, remember, Mr. Mayer, the man who staged “Spring Awakening” and this season’s American Idiot.  What Ms. Scott and her team summon here is that strange alchemy of ego, hunger, desperation and mysticism that infuses every great Broadway performance. Ms. Scott has never shined brighter or more illuminatingly.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times READ HERE

“Sherie Rene Scott’s Everyday Rapture is a tuneful and witty autobiographical musical.  With those doleful eyes, that wide permafrost smile set at a perpetual three-minutes-to-irony, and a crinkly mezzo that slingshots from brassy to bruised, Sherie Rene Scott (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Aida) has steadily established herself as New York’s leading comic divette. Does that mean we care about her life? Scott, smartly, assumes we don’t.  Scott uses the blimp-hangar that is the American Airlines Theatre as an echo chamber for her wit, backed by her “Mennonettes” and an eclectic set list that ranges from Judy Garland to Tom Waits to, yes, an erotic Mr. Rogers tribute medley. Tom Kitt’s typically brilliant arrangements are half the reason for showing up; the other half is Scott, whose lambent ease with the absurd (cleverly refined by director Michael Mayer and book co-writer Dick Scanlan) makes Everyday much more than just another maudlin auto-cabaret.” – Scott Brown, New York Magazine READ HERE

 

PRODUCTION PHOTO:

[Pictured: Sherie Rene Scott (Sherie Rene Scott)]

 www.RoundaboutTheatre.org/EverydayRapture

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EVERDAY RAPTURE’s Sherie Rene Scott in the news

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY

Two Tony Nominations

including Best Actress in a Musical

EVERDAY RAPTURE’s
Sherie Rene Scott
In the news

To read NY MAGAZINE:CLICK HERE 

To read NEWSDAY: CLICK HERE

“A smashing show that reminds us why so many of us keep going back to Broadway. Sherie Rene Scott has never shined brighter or more illuminatingly.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“Scott has a bold, brassy voice and one of those quirky, expansive theater personalities that can really fill a stage.”  -Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre

EVERYDAY RAPTURE’s Sherie Rene Scott in Star-Ledger

Roundabout’s EVERYDAY RAPTURE is currently playing on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre.

‘Everyday Rapture’ is paradise for star Sherie Rene Scott

The Star-Ledger
May 2, 2010
By Ronni Reich

“The idea of doing a one-person show was kind of a nightmare,” says Sherie Rene Scott. “I’m a very private person.”

This is the same Sherie Rene Scott starring in “Everyday Rapture,” which takes the idea of a solo show and turns it into a full-blast musical experience, complete with flashing lights, backup singers and signature dance moves. She’s also the same brassy-voiced diva to thrive in such attention-grabbing roles as Ursula in “The Little Mermaid” and Amneris in Elton John and Tim Rice’s “Aida.” And the same woman who, in her latest venture, openly shares hilarious, touching, detail-filled stories of a Mennonite childhood and of a journey to “semi”-stardom, complete with a candid announcement of her love of the audience’s adoring gaze.

The catch?

Those stories aren’t quite hers — or at least not entirely. “It’s all true, just not necessarily factual,” Scott says.

Highlights of 2009-2010 Broadway Season

2009-2010 Broadway Season Officially Ends

HIGHLIGHTS OF A HISTORIC STAR-FILLED YEAR, PACKED WITH SHOWS:

Burn The Floor • Bye Bye Birdie • The Royal Family • Hamlet • After Miss Julie • Wishful Drinking • Ragtime • White Christmas  • A Little Night Music • A View From the Bridge • The Miracle Worker • A Behanding in Spokane •
Times Stands Still • Present Laughter • Next Fall • Looped • Red • Lend Me a Tenor • Million Dollar Quartet • La Cage aux Folles •  Sondheim on Sondheim • Fences • Collected Stories • Everyday Rapture

With the opening last night of Roundabout Theatre Company’s Everyday Rapture, the 2009-2010 Broadway Season officially comes to an end.
 
One of the busiest and exciting Broadway seasons in years included many moments that will make it truly memorable.  
 
Follow along with us on Twitter (@BBBway) as we look back at this electric, star-packed season.  
 
@OfficialBTF:
“Last summer, the Longacre heated up with the dancers of BURN THE FLOOR.  Maks and Karina from DWTS were a special treat for audiences.”
 
@B3onBroadway:
“The new Henry Miller’s Theatre opened in September with the first revival of the famous rock-n-roll musical BYE BYE BIRDIE.  Mayor Bloomberg cut the ribbon!”

@MTC_NYC:
“THE ROYAL FAMILY was so luscious, even the NY Times is still talking about it:   http://tinyurl.com/39yw4vg .”
 
@HamletBway09:
“Jude Law returned to Broadway last fall in the Donmar Warehouse’s mega-hit acclaimed production of HAMLET.”
 
@NightMusicBway:
“Celebrated stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury lit up Broadway this Winter in the first revival of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.”
 
@RTC_NYC:
“Carrie Fisher had audiences rolling in the aisles as she told her sordid, martini soaked tale in WISHFUL DRINKING.”
 
@BBBWAY:
“The Neil Simon Plays: Brighton Beach Memoirs, directed by David Cromer, earns enthusiastic reviews, but plays briefly at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre.”
 
@RTC_NYC:
“Patrick Marber’s AFTER MISS JULIE brought Sienna Miller & Jonny Lee Miller together in an intoxicating tango.”
 
@SignatureTheatr:
 “Signature Theatre enjoys one of its biggest critical successes with the marathon trilogy production, Horton Foote’s THE ORPHANS’ HOME CYCLE, directed by Michael Wilson.”
 
@RagtimeonBway09:
“The celebrated musical RAGTIME returned to Broadway this Fall, breathing new life into the beloved American epic.”
 
@BBBWAY:
“IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS returned to Broadway at the Marquis Theatre this Winter, making it New York’s newest holiday tradition.”

@VIEWonBroadway:
“The new year began dramatically with Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson in a definitive production of A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE.”
 
@RTC_NYC:
“The dashing Victor Garber nailed the classic Noel Coward matinee idol role in a very funny revival of PRESENT LAUGHTER.”
 
@MTC_NYC:
“Donald Margulies’ newest play, TIME STANDS STILL earns rave reviews in its Broadway debut at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.”
 
@MiracleWorkerNY:
“THE MIRACLE WORKER brought Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin to Circle in the Square for her Broadway debut, alongside Tony nominee Alison Pill.”
 
@LoopedBroadway:
“Valerie Harper returned to Broadway in March in a tour-de-force performance as Tallulah Bankhead in LOOPED.”
 
@NextFall:
“Geoffrey Naufft’s new American play NEXT FALL opened in March and was lauded by critics for its humor, compassion and depth.”
 
@BehandingBWAY:
“March roared in like a lion with Chris Walken’s memorable portrayal of a one-handed man in A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE.”
 
@MillionDQuartet:
“In April, MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET became Broadway’s newest smash hit musical featuring a treasure trove of beloved rock and roll songs.”
 
@LendTenorNYC:
“Uproarious laughter has filled The Music Box since the April bow of Ken Ludwig’s madcap comedy Lend Me A Tenor, directed by Stanley Tucci.”
 
@RedonBroadway:
“Stage & screen vet Alfred Molina and Broadway newcomer Eddie Redmayne paint NY RED in John Logan’s new play, directed by Michael Grandage.”
 
@LaCageBroadway:
“LA CAGE AUX FOLLES opens to raves for Kelsey Grammer & Douglas Hodge and the ingeniously reinvented production, directed by Terry Johnson.”
 
@RTC_NYC:
“The adoration for Sondheim’s musical genius continued this spring in SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM.  Barbara Cook is a rare treat for Broadway audiences.”
 
@MTC_NYC:
“Donald Margulies’ COLLECTED STORIES premiered on Broadway at MTC, starring Linda Lavin, Sarah Paulson and directed by Lynne Meadow.”
 
@FencesBroadway:
“The first Broadway revival of FENCES, directed by Kenny Leon, opened to a chorus of raves for stars Denzel Washington and Viola Davis.
 
@RTC_NYC:
“Sherie Rene Scott finished the season off with a bang, wowing critics with her new musical EVERYDAY RAPTURE.” 

www.twitter.com/bbbway 
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Critics rave for Everyday Rapture & Sherie Rene Scott

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY

The critics have weighed in and LOVE Broadway’s new musical

EVERYDAY RAPTURE

Starring Sherie Rene Scott

NEW YORK TIMES
“Just as the Broadway theater season is drawing to its close, a smashing little show has arrived to remind us of why so many of us keep going back to Broadway.  I can’t think of another production in recent years that captures and explains so affectingly the essence and allure of musicals, and why they’re such an indispensable part of the New York landscape.  Written by Dick Scanlan and Ms. Scott, and directed with virtuoso efficiency and wit by Michael Mayer.  Ms. Scott performs with the sophistication that a New York audience (or rather an audience of New Yorkers) demands. And there’s no denying that when she sings, from a wildly diverse song list, she’s polished and inventive. Ms. Scott naturally translates life size into bigger than life.  The orchestrations and arrangements for the first-rate onstage band are by Tom Kitt (the composer of Next to Normal). And her director is, remember, Mr. Mayer, the man who staged “Spring Awakening” and this season’s American Idiot.  What Ms. Scott and her team summon here is that strange alchemy of ego, hunger, desperation and mysticism that infuses every great Broadway performance. Ms. Scott has never shined brighter or more illuminatingly.” – Ben Brantley
http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/theater/reviews/30everyday.html

VARIETY
“In the opening scene of the charmingly frenetic philosophical/autobiographical rumination-with-songs, Everyday Rapture, Sherie Rene Scott classifies herself as “one of Broadway’s biggest, brightest semi-stars.” Not anymore, lady. Here is Scott. She is not merely carrying this enchanting carnival — coauthored by herself — on her more than capable shoulders; she is the show. Scott is a force to be reckoned with. Everyday Rapture has provided an entertaining jolt to the season’s less-than-stellar lineup of new musicals. The show’s assets remain as refreshing as they were last May at Second Stage Theatre: Michael Mayer’s smart direction; Michele Lynch’s fitting choreo-graphy; Tom Kitt’s savvy orchestrations; the performances of the backup ‘Mennonites’ Lindsay Mendez and Betsy Wolfe; and the carryings-on of teenager Eamon Foley (who offers a cartoonishly over-the-top version of Scott).” -Steven Suskin

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117942662.html?categoryId=33&ref=vertlegit&cs=1

NY1
“What do Jesus, Judy Garland and Mister Rogers have in common? Sherie Rene Scott. And finding that common thread amounts to a wonderful kind of stage magic…the kind of magical synthesis that occurs when a performer marries her tremendous talents with the perfect material to produce a show that is as entertaining as it is artistically satisfying. Marked by a stream of contrasts, this natural entertainer reveals herself to be both humble and narcissistic, spiritual and hedonistic. And both sides are on ample display that she co-wrote with Dick Scanlan highlighting her journey from Kansas to Broadway.  She pulls it off brilliantly thanks to an exquisite set of pipes and sheer force of personality. Under Michael Mayer’s solid direction it remains both a witty parody of confessional shows and an earnest showcase for a gifted diva. Scott makes fun of herself as one of Broadway’s brightest semi-stars, but her glittering performance proves she is a full-fledged star.” – Roma Torre
http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/117865/ny1-theater-review—everyday-rapture-

EVERYDAY RAPTURE raved for in NY Times

NEW YORK TIMES
April 30, 2010
THEATER REVIEW

A Semi-Star Torn Between Two Superstars

By BEN BRANTLEY

Just as the Broadway theater season is drawing to its close, a smashing little show has arrived to remind us of why so many of us keep going back to Broadway, even though it’s broken our heart so many times.

“Everyday Rapture,” which opened on Thursday night at the American Airlines Theater, is by no means a conventional Broadway musical. Yet I can’t think of another production in recent years that captures and explains so affectingly the essence and allure of musicals, and why they’re such an indispensable part of the New York landscape.