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ADDITIONS LATE DAY May 4, 2009

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Everyday Rapture reviewed by Adam R. Perlman
The world was created for Sherie Rene Scott. This is one of the options presented by "Everyday Rapture," her one-woman autobiographical show—which is neither strictly one-woman nor strictly autobiographical.

nytheatre.com

Review: Everyday Rapture

AmericanTheaterWeb

Review: Everyday Rapture
A Life Torn Between Opposites

New York Times

Story of a Semi-Star, From Kansas to Broadway
Sherie Rene Scott’s sensational diva-as-trash-goddess show qualifies as one of the year’s most extravagantly entertaining new musicals.

New York Daily News

Her past, with great presence
How fitting that a show with music called "Everyday Rapture" features a song urging us to "go up the ladder to the roof, where we can see heaven much better."

New York Post

Kansan's yellow brick road
With "Everyday Rapture," Sherie Rene Scott proudly comes out as a Mennonite (OK, half of one) and a geek who's into show tunes and magic tricks. In this wonderfully crafted production, she reminisces about a Kansas childhood, sings U2's "Elevation" and skewers a balloon without popping it. Simple pleasures, maybe...

Associated Press

Sherie Rene Scott Examines a Woman's Semi-Stardom
Thank goodness for crises of identity and faith.

Bloomberg.com

Semi-Mennonite Turned Broadway Diva Finds `Rapture' in Song: Jeremy Gerard
Sherie Rene Scott has been winning the hearts of Broadway theatergoers for years, and why not? She played the beautiful dumped girlfriend Amneris in “Aida,” the beautiful swindler in “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and the hideous Ursula in “The Little Mermaid.”

Variety

Review: Everyday Rapture
Smart, funny and deftly balanced in its blend of self-exposure and theatrical artifice, this musical autobiography is an unpredictable voyage of spiritual reflection that charts the path of a Kansas Mennonite in New York with charming candor.

TheaterMania

Review: Everyday Rapture
Sherie Rene Scott delivers a fabulous performance in her vibrant, autobiographically-based musical.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Everyday Rapture
Blessed with killer beauty, a brightly burnished copper waterfall of a voice, and a delicately dirty sense of humor, Sherie Rene Scott doesn’t seem like a performer who should have spent more than a decade searching for her ideal role. But that time has been well spent, at least judging by Everyday Rapture, the new show she’s cowritten with Dick Scanlan that just opened at Second Stage. Because she’s discovered that the best person for her to play is herself. Well, sort of. . . .

CurtainUp

Review: Everyday Rapture
This charming, offbeat little show has enough sources to fall into a new genre: a mixed jukebox musical