Sherie Rene Scott's Everyday Rapture Extends at Second Stage

Second Stage Theatre has announced the extension of Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott's Everyday Rapture. The show, which opened May 3, was originally scheduled to end its limited engagement on May 17. The production, directed by Michael Mayer, will now play through June 14.

Everyday Rapture is the semi-autobiographical 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. The production stars co-creator and Sherie Rene Scott, and features Eamon Foley, Lindsay Mendez and Betsy Wolfe.

The show features songs made famous by David Byrne, George Harrison, U2, The Dap Kings and Judy Garland. Scott presented an earlier form of the production titled You May Now Worship Me on March 31, 2008, 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.