Buy your grades. Buy your
future.
But what happens when the rest of
the world finds out?
Theatre at Granite
Bay presents a brand new musical, written and developed by Director of Theatre
Arts Kyle Holmes in collaboration with the students of Granite Bay High School
and local composer David Taylor-Gomes. RANKED, which runs A pril 4-13
with performances Thursday-Saturday all starting at
7pm, asks audiences of all ages -- What
are you worth? Who decides? And what do you do when it all comes crashing down?
High school has always been tough. But in the dystopian
world of RANKED, brutal competition reaches new heights as publicized academic
excellence comes to define each student's worth. In the face of an intense and
perverse culture of performance, Lily must come to grips with her place in the
status quo as she watches friends and enemies alike destroy themselves and each
other to score their way to the top of academic leaderboards. When an
impossible lie is discovered, the fate of these students' futures hangs in the
balance.
Kyle Holmes has written a timely and fast paced script
that moves with urgency while managing to capture the complexity and nuance of
being a driven and vulnerable teenager. And David Taylor Gomes provides a rich
and vibrant original score that captures the frenetic energy of high school
with catchy pop/rock melodies that will be stuck in your head for days.
Holmes and Taylor-Gomes started collaborating in 2012 at Granite Bay
High School. RANKED will be their seventh musical as director and musical
director. In 2017 they were the first amateur theatre group to produce THE
UNFORTUNATES, coming off of its run at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and
A.C.T. San Francisco. Later in 2017, they developed Boxed Up - The Musical, an
episodic six-part musical comedy that took place at the Warehouse Artists Lofts
(WAL) First Friday event, and culminated in a concert performance at Capital
Stage. Taylor-Gomes wrote the music and lyrics for Boxed Up, while Holmes was
one of the show’s writers. Holmes and Taylor-Gomes began writing RANKED in the
spring of 2018. During the summer, they teach theatre arts together at Sugarloaf
Fine Arts Camp in El Dorado County.
WHAT: Theatre at Granite Bay presents RANKED, A NEW MUSICAL by Kyle Holmes
and David Taylor-Gomes
WHERE:
Granite Bay High School, 1 Grizzly Way, Granite Bay, CA 95746
WHEN: April 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13 TICKET PURCHASES:
Doors:
6:30| Curtain: 7:00 Tickets:
$8 Students/ $12 Adults
Limited
Seating Online:
TheatreAtGraniteBay.org
In person at ticket window
