Sarah Rasmussen's direction exudes great affection for each of these characters, and keeps the entire ensemble continuously engaged. Every aspect of the staging contributes to a wacky whole that manages to get the audience to suspend disbelief long enough to care about these kids. The ninety-minute musical uses the first few of its delightfully satiric musical numbers to establish the choir, their day at the amusement park, and their abrupt journey through space into the next world. As is typical of such a set-up, there is a range of types: Ocean Rosenberg a take-charge queen bee with a high opinion of herself Misha, a bad-boy Ukrainian immigrant Ricky, a boy paralyzed by a congenital condition, but with a rich inner life Noel, the only homosexual in Uranium City Constance, a nice but awkward and self-deprecating girl, who is Ocean's best friend, as Ocean constantly reminds Constance while itemizing her shortcomings and the enigmatic decapitated girl, dubbed Jane Doe. Cassian's and who they were in their own minds. What follows is each student's moment in the spotlight as we learn about who they were to the rest of St. Karnak reveals that one of them will be allowed to return to his or her life, the one who makes the best case for having another shot at living past the age of 17. They are joined by a sixth student, a girl who doesn't recall who she isor, rather, wasin life because she had been decapitated in the accident (hang on, nothing gory is on display), and none of the other kids know who she is either. In the next world they are greeted by The Amazing Karnak, a mechanized fortune teller residing in a glass phone booth-like boxyou know, a mannequin with a tall swami's head wrap that tells ersatz fortunes in exchange for depositing a coin in the slot. Cassian High School in Uranium City, Saskatchewan, are members of the school's competitive choral groupthink "Glee" with Catholic school uniformscelebrating their most recent competition at an amusement park by riding the big roller coaster, The Cyclone, when a malfunction sends them all hurtling to their death. A group of five high school students from the fictional St. ![]() The premise of Ride the Cyclone, with music and lyrics by Brooke Gladstone and Jacob Richmond and a witty book by Richmond, is bizarre, but you would do well not to be put off by that. You may add Ride the Cyclone to that club, and Twin City audiences are bound to enjoy the Jungle's bullseye staging of this giddy show. The past two seasons at the Jungle have included The Wolves, Hand to God, School Girls Or, the African Mean Girls Play, and Small Mouth Soundsworks with an edge, critics darlings that drew enthusiastic audiences to Off-Broadway theaters. With the offbeat musical Ride the Cyclone, Jungle Theater stays on its course of snatching some of the most talked about recent plays and musicals, particularly those with quirky twists that keep audiences engaged and stimulated. Leggett, Gabrielle Dominique, Josh Zwick, Review by Arthur Dorman | Season ScheduleĪlso see Arty's review of Smokey Joe's Cafe
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