When she was seven years old, Sherie Rene Scott wanted to live her life inside a song. In many ways, the Tony-nominated actress has achieved this goal -- or to be more precise, she has found inside of songs a way to live her life. This is evident from her vibrant, autobiographically-based musical, Everyday Rapture, now at Second Stage Theatre. The show, smartly directed by Michael Mayer and co-written with Dick Scanlan, moves quickly through its 90-minute running time.

The piece (which had previous incarnations at the Zipper Theater and as a one-night benefit concert on Broadway) uses a diverse selection of pre-existing tunes to serve as the soundtrack to Scott's life story, which she shar[...]