Created with students at Granite Bay High School, the musical has been licensed around the world as schools seek to amplify the academic pressures facing today’s adolescents.

Recently Hollywood Soapbox exchanged emails with Holmes and Gomes about RANKED and being one of the stories included in HBO’s new film “My So-Called High School Rank”

This new documentary is kind of like “High School Musical” — but real life. The story follows students at Granite Bay High School, near Sacramento, Calif., as they put on a production of their musical “Ranked,” which focuses on the difficult process of college applications.

The official trailer has been released for HBO's upcoming documentary My So-Called High School Rank. Watch the trailer above for the film, which will stream on HBOMax beginning November 29.

HBO Original documentary film MY SO-CALLED HIGH SCHOOL RANK, produced and directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg debuts Tuesday, November 29 on HBO.

My So-Called High School Rank, premiering on November 29 on HBO, follows students in a production of the high school musical, Ranked, a show all about just how far students and parents will go to secure their academic futures.

"Come Up for Air" is about pushing through the moment, finding some new appreciation, and ultimately, new ways of valuing ourselves.

Joshua Dela Cruz (Aladdin, Blue’s Clues) and Amanda Dela Cruz (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) have recorded “Come Up for Air,” a song from the new musical Ranked.

When David Taylor Gomes and Kyle Holmes asked their theatre students about the top concerns they faced in high school and in life, the fight to get into college and the ‘game’ of GPA point-scoring was high up the list for many of them.

Ranked is now offering DIGITAL PERFORMANCE LICENSING for this school year! Digital Scripts and Piano Tracks for you to rehearse and perform through Zoom, Google Meet or other mediums.

Head to RankedMusical.com/licensing for more information!

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In the world of Ranked, Jordan has only written the first verse and chorus of “Throw it All Away.” In real life, we finished writing the full song and you can listen to it NOW - featuring Alexandra Starr

Ranked: A Musical Concept Album: Digital release: February 28, 2020, Label: Peytoven Records, Buy: Amazon, iTunes, Apple Music, Writer: music and lyrics by David Taylor Gomes

Due to COVID-19, the NYC Industry Reading of Ranked has been postponed. We believe in this story, and we believe it has a future in New York City.

Mindy Cooper directs the musical penned by Kyle Holmes and David Taylor Gomes. Industry presentations of the new musical Ranked will be held March 20 at noon and 4 PM at The Daryl Roth Theatre.

The new musical Ranked (www.RankedMusical.com) with book by Kyle Holmes and music and lyrics by David Taylor Gomeswill have industry workshops on Friday, March 20 at 12pm and 4pm at The Daryl Roth Theatre (101 E. 15th Street).

The new musical Ranked, which follows the 2019 college admissions scandal, is now accepting video submissions for an upcoming industry presentation to be filmed by HBO for a documentary.

Following a record number of nominations and votes, winners have been announced for the 2019 BroadwayWorld Sacramento Awards. GFTF received awards for Mindy Cooper (Best Direction), Chloe Boyan (Best Actress), and Ranked, A New Musical (Best Musical).

Almost everyone is familiar with the college scandal that broke out early in the year involving Rick Singer, a former college counselor in the Sacramento area that worked with past Granite Bay students. When the news came out, it was perfectly timed with the premiere of Granite Bay High School’s new musical – Ranked.

Encouraged by the numerous accolades and widespread interest in reproducing the show, Holmes and Gomes have set their sights on taking the show to New York. With the additional songs and development, it is well on its way to securing a spot on Broadway.

A year ago, when high school theater teacher Kyle Holmes was writing a new musical, “Ranked,” with composer and lyricist David Taylor Gomes, people told him it was “too far-fetched,” he recalls in an email. Now, the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance mounts a new production of “Ranked” as part of its Ground and Field Theatre Festival.

Following the success of their musical production titled Ranked, writer Kyle Holmes and composer David Taylor Gomes are teaming up once again for a concert version of the show.

Broadway World Sacramento spoke to Holmes and Gomes about the making of Ranked and what we can expect in the future.

The whole point of Granite Bay High School’s musical, “Ranked,” is to shine an actual and figurative spotlight on what high school life can be like for the kids struggling through it today and how it might be different. The first words of this musical were actually written back in May of 2018.

A new musical explores life in high school in a way that's eerily familiar. It's called Ranked, and it's set in a dystopian world where your class rank — determined by grades and test scores — governs everything from where you sit to what your future holds.

GRANITE BAY, Calif. — Overnight, Granite Bay High School’s spring musical became more newsworthy than its writers could have ever imagined.

David Taylor-Gomes and Kyle Holmes have done it again. After collaborating on their 2017 musical comedy, Boxed Up: The Musical, they have joined forces at Granite Bay High School to present to you another original work.

Ranked promises to be something like The Putnam County Spelling Bee meets The Hunger Games, but as the recent news has shown, it’s not at all far-fetched.