I have the pleasure of being co-producer on Rated RSO, a sold out one-night only event tonight at Joe’s Pub.
After two sold out shows in Los Angeles, RATED RSO: The Music and Lyrics of Ryan Scott Oliver will receive its New York premiere tonight!
Presently portraying the sexy schoolteachers, provocative rent-boys, and obsessive homicidal teenagers of Oliver’s works will be Broadway talents Alex Brightman (Wicked, Glory Days), Morgan Karr (Spring Awakening), Natalie Weiss (Wicked), Jay Johnson (Hair, A Chorus Line), and Lindsay Mendez (Grease, Everyday Rapture), with Geoff Kidwell, Mat Burrow, Lyle Mackston, Katie Gassert, Cait Doyle, Grace Wall, and introducing Jennifer DeRosa.
Travis Greisler directs the evening, which will include several of Oliver’s better-known tunes, including “Lost Boy,” “Out of My Mind,” “When Lily Came,” “Never” and “Mrs. Sharp.” Showtime is at 11:30pm and at the time of this posting, the show is sold-out.
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Ryan Scott Oliver is a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient and wrote the music and lyrics for Mrs. Sharp (2008 Richard Rodgers Award Winner, formerly Alive at Ten), Darling (Pace New Musicals 2009), the song cycle Out of My Head, music for Angus Oblong’s The Debbies and music and co-lyrics for the hit YouTube TV show The Battery’s Down. His work has been presented in showcases including the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Goodspeed Musicals, William Finn & Barrington Stages, The York Theatre, Monday Nights New Voices, the Festival of New American Musicals in Los Angeles, and most recently The Ryan Scott Oliver Project conceived by Philly Music Theatre Works. He is a Dramatists Guild Fellow, and the recipient of numerous awards including the first-ever ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award for Excellence in Lyric Writing. Currently he is working on an untitled show for TheatreworksUSA which will open off-Broadway in 2010. B.A. Music Composition, UCLA; M.F.A. Musical Theatre Writing, NYU-Tisch, a proud member of A.S.C.A.P.
