Sherie Rene Scott's EVERYDAY RAPTURE Replaces LIPS TOGETHER; Opens April 29, 2010 — Page 2

I can see Everday Rapture getting 5 nominations:

Best Musical
Best Book of a Musical - Dick Scanlan & Sherie Rene Scott
Best Actress in a Musical - Sherie Rene Scott
Best Orchestrations - Tom Kitt
Best Direction of a Musical - Michael Mayer

It could easily take home Book and Actress.

I don't think it gets a Director nomination. Michael Mayer will be recognized for American Idiot, but there are too many directors this season to give a small show like this a nomination for Direction.

I don't see it getting an Orchestrations nomination either. But I agree with you about Book, Musical, and Sherie. And, if Brantley has his way, Eamon Foley will be nominated for Featured Actor.

Wooooooo hoooooooooo

I'm so coming up from DC *does happy dance with backflips and cartwheels

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Not to burst everyone's bubble. But I can see them awarding Sherie for book, but giving Actress to a woman playing an actual character. Like Stew in 2008.

I would agree with that, ljay, if PASSING STRANGE and EVERYDAY RAPTURE were similar. Sure, they're both autobiographical but in terms of execution, they couldn't be any more different. ER is much more mainstream and easily accessible for the average theater-goer. And the Tonys probably wouldn't feel like they were taking so much of a "risk" by awarding Sherie Best Actress. It's not right, but it's probably the truth.

And Sherie does much more in ER than Stew did in PS in terms of being involved in the actual story-line. Stew served (exclusively) as the narrator and Daniel Breaker did most of the real "acting," hence why Breaker was considered to be a real threat to Boyd Gaines. I remember hearing grumblings that Stew wasn't really doing any "acting" in PS which is why his nomination was considered his "win." But Breaker was the one being considered as a legitimate potential winner because he played more of an interactional role in the show.

Sherie does double duty: playing narrator AND "acting" as herself in book-scenes.

Plus, also, I think a lot of EVERYDAY RAPTURE wouldn't work without Sherie delivering the lines. On paper, some of the show sounds very vain and narcissistic, but with Sherie leading the way, it comes off as very self-deprecating. In an odd way, she's really walking a tightrope the entire show. She could very easily come off as arrogant, because the material allows room for that to happen, but she instead is anything but. And on top of all that, she makes it look effortless.

So on paper, I think the comparison to Stew is fair, but in reality, I think Sherie has the Tony in the bag.

Updated On: 4/1/10 at 04:54 PM

This is also not a particularly strong year for Leading Actress in a Musical. Honestly, the one person who deserves the award more than anyone else might not even be nominated because her show closed so long ago. Last year, Sherie wouldn't have won. The year before that, Sherie wouldn't have won. The year before that, Sherie wouldn't have won. This year, definitely.

Lucille Lortel Nominations for Everyday Rapture!

Outstanding Musical:
Everyday Rapture; Second Stage Theatre, Producer; Written by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott.

Outstanding Lead Actress:
Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture
Lucille Lortel Noms

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great to see the same cast is kept!
are there going to be understudies?
im not sure if there were any at 2nd stage

Billy Crystal's understudy was Derek Jeter.

broadway_show_fan, I was talking about Kate Baldwin, sorry. I guess I forgot to actually say her name, lol. And no, I meant of the women OTHER than Sherie, Kate was the only one deserving to win. I think Sherie is fantastic in Everyday Rapture.

There are samples of the cast recording on the show's website:
http://www.sh-k-boom.com/EverydayRapture/#

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There's no song list or even song credits listed in the Playbill from Second Stage, but I'll try to describe the show.

It's broken into 6 sections:

1. BOTH SIDES NOW - She has two pieces of paper in her pockets. One says "The world was created for me." The other says "I am a speck of dust." This sets up the main themes of the show (as the promotional materials say: balancing her mostly Mennonite past and her mostly Manhattan future).

2. THE NAME OF MY STAR - She discusses growing up half-Mennonite in Topeka, Kansas. Includes mentions of "Pastor Fred" (Fred Phelps) and Judy Garland.

3. BEAUTIFUL DAY - Talks about her love of Mr. Rogers.

4. LIKE MAGIC - Here she tells about her first trip to New York and a man she met there.

5. REACH OUT AND TOUCH - . . . I'm totally blanking on this part. Anyone? I think this may have been where she discussed the fall-out from her time with the man she met in New York.

6. FOUR-LEAF CLOVER - She shares her realization that she doesn't need to wait for the rapture - as she was taught by the Mennonites - because it's already here. Everday. Rapture.

That's a very, very simplified version of what I can remember from a year ago but it'll hopefully give you an idea.

Is it one or two acts?