Everyday Rapture

Everyday Rapture
Broadway Playbill cover
Music	Various Artists
Lyrics	Various Artists
Book	Dick Scanlan Sherie Rene Scott
Productions	2009 Off-Broadway 2010 Broadway

Everyday Rapture is a musical with a book written by Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan and music by various composers. It ran Off-Broadway in 2009 and opened on Broadway in 2010. The musical is a loose autobiography of Scott herself, showing her travels from her half-Mennonite Kansas childhood to a life in show business.

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." Songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood are also sung.

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."

Everyday Rapture debuted Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre on April 7, 2009 in previews, opening officially on May 3, and closed on June 13, 2009. It starred Sherie Rene Scott with direction by Michael Mayer, choreography by Michele Lynch and orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt. Featured in the cast were Eamon Foley, Lindsay Mendez and Betsy Wolfe. Scott was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress, and the show was nominated as Best Musical.