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.