Ride the Cyclone is a quirky, edgy cult musical about six slot garansi naga4d teen chamber choir singers (from the fictional “Uranium City,” Saskatchewan). Catapulted into post-life limbo after a freak accident while riding The Cyclone roller coaster, they encounter a mechanical fortune teller, The Amazing Karnak, who offers them the chance to sing their way back to life… but wait, only one of them will make it (it’s a lot more fun than this sounds!).
With book, music, and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, Ride the Cyclone began its life at Atomic Vaudeville, a slot garansi naga4d performance company in Victoria, British Columbia founded by Richmond and Britt Small. Since then, it’s grown and changed, with an American premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2015 and an off-Broadway run in 2016.
One of the most exciting things about a new musical is its capacity to grow, change, and discover new moments that will surprise and delight its audience. Over 15 years, there have been numerous changes to the book and music of Ride the Cyclone. Characters have come and gone. Songs have been cut and reinstated. Did you know choir member Ocean O’Connell Rosenberg’s ear worm anthem, “What the World Needs,” was once a more Gospel style song called “Play to Win”?
As Ride the Cyclone exploded in popularity, with multiple interpretations (which is bound to happen if you have 30 licenses out there), Richmond changed the nature of a character’s disability, to make sure he wasn’t perpetuating the trope of an able-bodied performer using mobility aids. “This does not bar a performer with disability playing any of the seven roles,” Richmond explains, “In fact it’s encouraged. I want anyone to be able to play any character in the show. Mandating the use of mobility aids would do the exact opposite.”
Richmond notes that there have been a couple of productions already where characters were interpreted by performers with a disability, such as a production in Ohio where the character of Constance was in a wheelchair. “This [2023] revision [being staged at Arena] makes sure that an able-bodied performer is not using mobility aids as a theatrical device in future productions.”
Okay, okay, you probably already know that reddoortavern.com you can go to for tickets and further details, but we couldn’t resist the chance to highly recommend you should! Plus, the show is 90 minutes with no intermission – who doesn’t love that?
What you might not know is how many different discount programs we have; they’re all listed on our Savings Programs page with information about group sales, pay-your-age pricing for the 30 and under crowd (yes, really, aged 30 or under, you can literally pay your age), “HOTTIX” rush tickets, and many more.
A couple of specific performances you should know about:
- Southwest Nights, where we offer exclusive $36 tickets to those who live or work in our SW neighborhood, are January 15 and 25
- We will host an audio described performance on Saturday, January 28 at 2 p.m., and
- An ASL interpreted performance (we’re super excited to bring these back) on Saturday, February 18 at 8 p.m.