Show Description
On Monday, January 25, Rated RSO: The Music & Lyrics of Ryan Scott Oliver plays its final performance at Joe’s PubFeatured in the cast of RATED RSO are Alex Brightman (Wicked), Gerard Canonico (Spring Awakening), Matt Cavenaugh (West Side Story, Grey Gardens), Blake Daniel (Spring Awakening), Stephen DeRosa (Hairspray, Into the Woods), Cait Doyle (MAC Award Winner), Matt Doyle (Bye Bye Birdie, Spring Awakening), Hunter Ryan Herdlicka (A Little Night Music), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Hair), Morgan Karr (Spring Awakening), Andrew Kober (Hair), Eric Michael Krop, Lindsay Mendez (Grease, Everyday Rapture), Jenny Powers (Grease, Little Women), Kacie Sheik (Hair), Grace Wall and Natalie Weiss (Wicked).
The ensemble is rounded out by Catherine Brookman, Mat Burrow, Jeff Cuttler, Jennifer DeRosa, Katie Gassert and Geoffrey Kidwell. The band features Matt Hinkley as guitar-MD, Eric Day on bass, Allison Seidner on cello, Brian Boyce on drums, Rich Silverstein on piano and Sharon Kenny on keyboard.
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.
RATED RSO has previously been seen at Joe’s Pub, SPF, NYMF, and Los Angeles’s Boston Court Performing Arts Center. The show is directed by Travis Greisler, and produced by jokr productions (Joey Oliva & Katie Riegel) and John Johnson.
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