Everyday Rapture Tickets

Everyday Rapture is what can be termed as a loosely autobiographical show created by Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan about Scott’s journey from Kansas to stardom, or “semi- stardom” as she herself would put it. The show has also been called “stage memoir disguised as fiction” and a “mixed jukebox musical.”

Everyday Rapture defies easy categorization, as does the woman who created it. Yes, it has music, but it is not traditional musical. It has been called autobiographical, but it is “not an autobiography in any sense of the word…It’s autobiographical, but it’s not an autobiography.” As Scott told the Associated Press, “I co-wrote it, and I still don’t understand it, and I consider that a good thing! What it is is a completely new show.”

Sherie Rene Scott’s Personal Rapture

What Scott does is sing a lot of great songs, gives her points of view on life and her journey to “semi-stardom,” but none of it is traditional, or like anything you’ve seen before (Songs from artists as eclectic as David Byrne from The Talking Heads, to tunes from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood are performed). She also performs Get Happy by Judy Garland, one of her heroes growing up who, of course we all wanted to believe, got yanked out of Kansas by a tornado into another magical world in The Wizard of Oz.

“I really enjoyed the writing process,” Scott told Playbill, “and I was really hoping to write it for someone else, but I was convinced to perform it. Then I got re-convinced and re-convinced, doing it. That's a part of me that's not really known to others.” And as Scanlan offered,"What we tried to do was make a voice that was ours. This other character that we call Sherie in the play was a lot of her and a lot of me. She's up there speaking that character's voice.”

Everyday Rapture was performed off-Broadway in 2009, and went to Broadway the following year, 2010. As free-form and stream of consciousness as the play may seem, theater fans get it, and love it. The New York Times called Everyday Rapture, “one of the year’s most extravagantly entertaining new musicals.”

A Completely New Show

Sherie Rene Scott is a singer, Broadway and off-Broadway performer, writer and singer who has also founded several record labels as well. Sh-K-Boom and Ghostlight, the labels she founded, keep original theater cast albums, and albums by Broadway performers alive. The soundtrack to Everyday Rapture has been released through her Sh-K-Boom label.

Sherie Rene Scott was born in Kentucky and raised in Kansas, and has performed in many musicals, including a 1993 revival of The Who’s Tommy, Rent, Grease, Aida, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Little Mermaid, Randy Newman’s Faust, and more.

Everyday Rapture has been nominated for two Tony Awards, Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (for Sherie Rene Scott of course), and Best Book of a Musical (for Sherie again and partner Dick Scanlan. Everyday Rapture also earned five Drama Desk Nominations including Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Outstanding Orchestrations, and Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical.