‘JASPER IN DEADLAND’ VOCAL SELECTIONS RELEASED AUG.4

July 19, 2015

‘Jasper in Deadland’ Vocal Selections will be released for digital download on August 4, 2015.

JASPER_COMPOSITE_FINAL_SMALLEST_v2After an off-Broadway run in 2014 and a critically acclaimed production at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater, songs from Jasper in Deadland will be released to the public for purchase in a digital vocal selections book, on August 4th, 2015. The selections will include hit songs like Stroke by Stoke, and Living Dead as well as never-before-released songs. Books ($34.99) and individual songs ($8.99) will be available for purchase at www.ryanscottoliver.com/store

Vocal Selections Include:

Stroke by Stroke
The Forgetting
Living Dead
Awful People
Hungry for Your Heart
Lifesong
The Killing
One More Day of Snow

Jasper in Deadland tells the story of 16-year-old Jasper, who journeys into the Afterlife to rescue his recently deceased best friend, Agnes.  But in this version of the hereafter – known as “Deadland,”  a hybrid of mythology, religion, and superstition – the dead forget Life…  And so, too, will Jasper, if he can’t get past the seven circles of Deadland, fearsome Cerberus, heavenly Beatrix, mysterious Mr. Lethe, and ultimately himself.  Can Jasper bring his best friend back from the dead, or will he join the dead forever? Book by HUNTER FOSTER and RYAN SCOTT OLIVER, music and Lyrics by RYAN SCOTT OLIVER.

 

NEW VIDEO RELEASED!

July 19, 2015

“My Lass, She Tied Her Lace to Me” from ROPE

Music and Lyrics by RYAN SCOTT OLIVER

In 1864, two young men (one blind, one sighted) tie together to form a friendship that will live forever. Our guides and onstage band The Daybreak Boys bless them as they unite.

Performed by: THOMAS KNAPP, CORY JEACOMA, TRAVIS KENT, JOHN-MICHAEL LYLES

Like this?  Check out “Welcome-ye, You’re in Five Points” and “I Have Seen the After.”

‘WE FOXES’ READING AT PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS

July 18, 2015

On July 24, 2015, ROS’s ‘We Foxes’ will receive a closed reading at Playwrights Horizons directed by Leigh Silverman.

WE FOXES promo 1-1z no text (1)The reading stars Katie Thompson, Emily Rogers, Ben Crawford, and Ben Frankhauser with Jill Abramovitz, Cory Jeacoma, Natalie Charle Ellis, Tori Huston-Elem, Will Erat, P.J. Griffin, Azudi Onyejekwe, Jen Perry, and Jim Stanek. Creative team includes Music Director Rich Silverstein, Music Assistant Kailey Marshall, with Stage Manager David Lurie and Production Assistant Nessie Nankivell.

We Foxes is a southern Gothic thriller set in small-town Missouri, 1945. It’s the story of WILLA, a tough and unmannered orphan girl, and her adoption by the crafty Sheriff’s wife, VESTA QUIMBY. When Willa discovers the dark secrets beneath the floorboards, a war cuts them apart and Willa must fight to survive. After all, Vesta Quimby is the most beloved and powerful woman in town … Yet she’s less humanitarian socialite than she is Machiavellian sociopath… Can Willa discover her own salvation, deliver herself into courage, and sacrifice everything to escape Vesta? It is a story of intense human struggle, deliverance, and the great salvation found only through oneself.

The reading is produced by Grove Entertainment and hosted by Playwrights Horizons.

Katie Thompson performs “Ruination” from We Foxes below.

 

 

35MM AT TORONTO’S GREAT HALL

May 2, 2015

RSO’S 35MM: A MUSICAL EHXIBITION TO PLAY MAY 3 & 4, 2015

The cast of “35mm”

“The time is perfect for this work” says co-producer Adrian Marchuk of this weekend’s Toronto Production of 35mm: A Musical Exhibition in an article for The Star. Directed by Melissa Jane Shaw with musical direction by Chris Tsujiuchi, the production stars Marchuk, Jeigh Madjus, Kelly Holiff, Marisa McIntyre, and Michael Esposito II. Brian Goldenberg co-produces. Get tickets here.

A picture is worth 1,000 words — what about a song? Can a picture inspire a song or fifteen? In 35mm, each photo creates an unique song, moments frozen in time; a glimmer of a life unfolding, a glimpse of something happening. A stunning new multimedia musical which explores a groundbreaking new concept in musical theatre… This intricately woven collection of stories told through song re-imagines what the modern American musical can be.

‘DARLING’ SUMMER LAB, AUDITIONS ANNOUNCED

April 7, 2015

RSO’S “Darling” is getting a developmental reading via WalkFlyRun productions this summer, and auditions have been announced.

darling

The Reading

With book, music & lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver, conceived byBrett Ryback, and directed by Robert Longbottom, with choreography by Greg Graham and musical direction by Rodney Bush, DARLING is set in 1900s Boston and follows 16-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 just appeared in a January reading at Pearl Studios and was featured on the “Bound for Broadway” episode of NBC’s The Apprentice in 2010, and in 2012, 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.

Auditions

EPA
Thursday, April 16; 9:30AM – 5:30PM
AEA Audition Center

ECC/Singers
Friday, April 17; Female Singers 10AM, Male Singers 1PM
Pearl Studios 500, 12th Floor

ECC/Dancers
Wednesday, April 15; Male Dancers 10AM, Female Dancers 1PM
Chelsea Studios, 6th Floor

Read the full Broadway World article HERE.