Lindsay Mendez, Jay Armstrong Jonhson and more sing RSO at 54 Below

January 25, 2015

RSO at 54 Below Featuring Lindsay Mendez performs February 2nd.

Lindsay Mendez

Ryan Scott Oliver returns to 54 Below on February 2nd at 7 and 9:30pm with material culled from his diverse and growing body of work: multimedia musical 35mm; southern gothic thriller We Foxes; epic Civil War-era folk opera Rope; macabre jazz operetta Darling; and rocking underworld odyssey Jasper in Deadland. Broadway powerhouses will bring his high-octane songs of heroism, salvation, brotherhood and twisted tragedy to life in a celebration of the singularity and power of this composer’s inimitable musical voice.

Starring Alex Brightman, Lindsay Mendez, Katie Thompson, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Julia Mattison, Ben Fankhauser, Derek Klena, Katie Rose Clarke, Keala Settle, Andy Mientus, Jason Gotay, Ephie Aardema, F. Michael Haynie, Julia Murney, Taylor Trensch with more to be announced!

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Behind The Scenes With RSO’s Darling

January 25, 2015

Go behind the scenes of the January 21st private reading of Darling starring Peter Pan Live!’s Jason Gotay!

Set in 1900s Boston, Darling, according to press notes, “follows sixteen year old Darling as she encounters a boy named Peter, who offers the opportunity to run away with him. She takes it and finds herself swept into a seedy underground of jazz, sex, lost rentboys, and a mysterious white powder called Dust.”

Darling was featured on the “Bound for Broadway” episode of NBC’s “The Apprentice” in 2010; in 2012, it was given a private workshop and developmental production as a collaboration between Retrop Production and RareWorks Theatre Company, in association with Sh-K-Boom Records, at Emerson College. In 2013, Darling received The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company New Musical Award. Darling was conceived by Brett Ryback.

Read more on Playbill! 

RSO Songs Featured in Rider University Production

December 4, 2014

Rider University presents Girl’s Night Out, a work of devised Theatre based on the compositions of Contemporary Musical Theatre composer, Ryan Scott Oliver.

On Friday and Saturday, December 5th and 6th at 7:30pm, Girls’ Night Out will be performed at Rider University’s Yvonne Theater in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Admission is free.

Girl’s Night Out is a work of devised Theatre based on the compositions of Contemporary Musical Theatre composer, Ryan Scott Oliver.  Each young performer has been presented a musical piece composed by Mr.Oliver that informed their character. The relationships that grow between each character have developed out of their improvisational work within the rehearsal process.  The audience will follow each young person’s journey, observing each character’s discoveries that effect not only themselves, but everyone around them as well.

Directed by Rider Musical Theater Faculty Mariann Cook, with musical direction by Wendy Feaver, and choreography by Colby Dezelick, Girls’ Night Out features Maria Garvey, Samantha Ricchuti, Sarah Catherine Carter, Patricia Curley, Sarah Davis, Kailee Graham, Madeline Chandler, Leanne Gallati, Chelsea Delgado, Jessica Phipps, Katherine Tennenbaum, and Amy Hine.

Rider University is comprised of 65 undergraduate programs and 26 graduate programs in business administration, education, liberal arts, sciences, fine and performing arts, counseling, and leadership, with over 4,400 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students. Rider Musical Theatre features BFA students in 8 productions per year, most recent a fully realized workshop of new work by the team that wrote Urinetown,  a new musical titled ZM, or the Zombie Musical.

‘RSO AT 54 BELOW’ will feature Klena, Mendez, Johnson and more

November 28, 2014

On Feb. 2, RSO will bring Alex Brightman, Katie Rose Clarke, Ben Fankhauser, Lindsay Mendez, Derek Klena, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Julia Mattison, Katie Thompson and many more to be announced to 54 Below.

artistpage_rso1Audiences can expect to hear songs from RSO’s latest tuner We Foxes, plus favorites from 35mm: A Musical Exhibition, Darling, Jasper in Deadland, and a few world premieres.

Most importantly, ticket buyers can get 50% off tickets purchased “Cyber Monday,” Monday, Dec. 1.  (A code will be offered via Facebook, and also placed here on Dec. 1.)

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RSO Comes to The Beechman November 7th

October 20, 2014

A night of RSO songs, featuring actors from Bridges of Madison County, Chaplin, and Jasper in Deadland will take place on Friday, November 7th at 7:00pm & 9:30pm.

RSO at the Beechman will feature songs from many of RSO’s award winning shows, including 35MM, Jasper in Deadland, and We Foxes. Under the music direction of Joshua Zecher-Ross, the show features Charles Franklin (Bridges of Madison County), Michael Mendez (Chaplin), Andi Alhadeff (Jasper in Deadland), and John-Michael Lyles (Jasper in Deadland) with Aaron Albert, Ethan Carlson, Danae Ervin, Christian Lane Greene, Carson Higgins, Melissa Rose Hirsch, Missy Karle, Tatiana Lofton, Amy Marik, Mike Millan, Mary Claire Miskell, Jonathan Mushock, Katy Rea, Jenyth Rosati, Ryan Vasquez, and Joel Waggoner.

The Laurie Beechman Theatre is located at 402 West 42nd St. Cover charge is $20 plus a food/drink minimum.

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