Ride The Cyclone: Broadway Musical

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Ride the Cyclone is a Broadway musical produced by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell in 2008. It is part of the Uranium Teen Scream Trilogy. The Musical is about 6 teenagers, in the Uranium City St. Cassian Chamber High School choir, who visit the fall fair in their town, Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada. They perform their last show for the folks visiting the fair. They are met with Karnak, a machine that predicts the future and can tell the exact time, place, and reason of death. He can even predict his own. But he doesn’t tell us. The children came and read their fortunes, all but one, and were encouraged to ride the cyclone. They all did. These children meet their fate, their deaths, after the front axle of the roller coaster derails. They …show more content…

It is in a little over an hour when the rat, which he calls Virgil, will chew through Karnak’s wire, instantly killing them both. But he was set to be in a friendly mode for the fair, not revealing the deaths. He read the children’s fortunes, and told them to ride the cyclone, knowing they would die. He is the host of the musical. And the one to bring one of the members of the now deceased St. Cassian Chamber Choir back from their death. Ocean O’Connell Rosenberg is known in the play as “The Most Successful Girl in Town,” as referred to by Karnak. She’s a soprano in the group. Her catchphrase in the musical is “Democracy rules!” She is known as the ambitious, overachieving, straight A student of the choir. But, she is also seen to be hated by the whole choir, even her best friend, Constance Blackwood. Who she constantly insulted during her song, “What the World Needs.” And in many scenes with Ricky Potts, she is quite ableist, mentioning harsher, arrogant things about his disability. Noel Gruber is referred to as “the most romantic boy in town.” He is often also associated with his queerness, and cross-dressing. He dreams of being this French woman dancer in the 1930s, in which he named Monique

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