Mermaid Diva Sherie Rene Scott to Star in Everyday Rapture at Second Stage

Tony nominee Sherie Rene Scott will star in a new semi-autobiographical show, Everyday Rapture, at Second Stage Theatre next spring. Written by Scott who’s currently on Broadway as Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid and Dick Scanlan Thoroughly Modern Millie, with musical supervision by Tom Kitt Next to Normal, High Fidelity, the show will be directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer Spring Awakening. Everyday Rapture will begin previews on April 7, 2009, and officially open off-Broadway in late April.

Featuring a cast of five led by Scott, Everyday Rapture is described as 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 features songs made famous by David Byrne, George Harrison, U2, The Dap Kings and Judy Garland. Scott presented an earlier form of the show titled You May Now Worship Me last March 31 as a one-night benefit for the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative of The Actors’ Fund.

In addition to The Little Mermaid, Scott’s New York theater credits include her Tony-nominated performance in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Landscape of the Body, Aida, Tommy, Rent, The Last Five Years and Debbie Does Dallas. With her husband, Kurt Deutsch, she co-founded Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records, which has produced more than 50 albums, receiving five Grammy nominations and a 2006 Drama Desk Award for dedication to the preservation of musical theater through cast recordings.