Everyday Rapture

Book by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott

Memorabilia Available

Her new show, Everyday Rapture, is so wonderful because it shines the spotlight not only on the voice that her devoted fans have adored for so long but on the voice that we may not have been as aware of, her personal story of her emotional/spiritual journey from her Mennonite childhood to her current divadom. Part musical, part one-woman show (plus two female backup singers and a teenage boy, for one fantastic sequence), part Bette Midler-style concert with covers of songs both classic and obscure, heartfelt and campy, part performance art piece, part cabaret act, this mostly autobiographical work is the perfect showcase for Sherie Rene Scott and her enormous talent, allowing us a peek into the psyche of this remarkable performer and the opportunity to hear her fabulous interpretations of some fantastic music.

Concept

The show is called a “stage memoir disguised as fiction”, and a “mixed jukebox musical”. Songs by singers and songwriters include David Byrne, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and the Johnny Mercer-Harry Warren “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.” The Judy Garland standards “Get Happy” and “You Made Me Love You” are sung, the “latter amusingly illustrated with a series of cheeky images of Jesus.”[1] Songs from Mister Rogers’ Neighbourhood are also sung.[2]
Scanlan described the show as “‘a one-person show with four people in it.’ The other three, besides Scott, are a younger actor who has an extended YouTube sequence and two women who serve as backup singers—’The Mennonettes’—and share other scenes with her.”[3]

Run

Opening Night Cast

Opening Night Production Credits

Video

Song List

From the original cast recording:

• “The Other Side of This Life” (Overture)
• “Got a Thing on My Mind”
• “Elevation”
• “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”
• “Get Happy”
• “You Made Me Love You”
• Mr. Rogers Medley (“It’s Such a Good Feeling”, “Everybody’s Fancy”, “I Like to Be Told”)
• “It’s You I Like”
• “I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City”
• “Life Line”
• “The Weight”
• “Rainbow Sleeves”
• “Why”
• “Won’t You Be My Neighbour?”
• “Up the Ladder to the Roof”

Bonus Tracks:

• “Remember”
• “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)”

Links

1. Sommer, Elyse. “Curtain Up review: Everyday Rapture”. Curtainup.com, May 1, 2009
2. Grode, Eric. “Everyday Rapture Glimpses (Funnily) into Tug Between Narcissism and Discipline”. Village Voice, 2009, accessed April 19, 2010
3. Arnold, Monty.“Sherie Rene Scott Slips Into Rapturous Persona”, Playbill.com, April 23, 2009.

Everyday Rapture at Lortel Archives

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