I used to think that life was just a jawbreaker, Castillo's Constance is the most moving this is impressive since she has to deliver a contradictory monologue before diving into a bubblegum pop song with the following repetitive lyrics: Despite his Count Chocula accent, Halper gives a convincing portrayal of the rap-obsessed Mischa. Tatreau (who bravely stepped into her role in a last-minute casting change) delivers a solidly uptight performance as Ocean, who is essentially the Canadian Tracy Flick. With curled lip and gyrating hips, he fully commits to the song's absurdity, narrowly averting comedy disaster.Įveryone in the cast works up a sweat selling the material they have to work with, which is at times reminiscent of Ariana Grande, DJ Khaled, and Kurt Weill: Playing the choir's token gay boy, Wardell does his best Sally Bowles for a song about how he wishes he were a tragic French hooker (the confusion of post-War France and Weimar Germany is never fully explained, but seems to work anyway). Wyse dons a costume for this number that makes him look like David Bowie playing Rum Tum Tugger (articulate costumes by Theresa Ham). Maxwell and Richmond might be winking at the parallels between their show and that Broadway blockbuster with the evening's oddest song, "Space Age Bachelor Man." It features the introverted Ricky singing about an elaborate fantasy life in which he is the hero prince of an advanced race of space cats. It's Cats, but with dead teenagers.Īlex Wyse performs "Space Age Bachelor Man" in Ride the Cyclone. For the rest of the show, everyone gets a song to explain why they should be chosen. This includes the mysterious Jane Doe (Emily Rohm), whose headless corpse was unclaimed after the accident. Karnak will permit one of them to walk through an ethereal lighting effect and return to the realm of the living, provided he or she receives the unanimous support of the others.
After flying off the tracks, they find themselves in a limbo game show hosted by animatronic fortune-teller the Amazing Karnak (Karl Hamilton). That's Constance Blackwood (Lillian Castillo), Mischa Bachinski (Gus Halper), Noel Gruber (Kholby Wardell), Ricky Potts (Alex Wyse), and Ocean O'Connell Rosenberg (Tiffany Tatreau): All perished in a roller coaster derailing at a fair that stopped into their small town of Uranium City, Saskatchewan. The show begins with the death of the Saint Cassian High School Chamber Choir. Unfortunately, it's not nearly as funny as the writers seem to think and a last-minute U-turn toward schmaltz comes across as unearned. Morbidly set around a deadly roller-coaster accident, this quirky show pushes hard for its desired audience response, be it laughter or tears.
What is life? Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond contemplate this very question in their new musical, Ride the Cyclone, now making its New York debut with MCC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.
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