![]() Like all the other oddball characters in this show, you genuinely come to feel affection for her. Poignantly played by Sarah Jane Pelzer in black contact lens, this bizarre Beckettian creation has the most unexpectedly moving song of the night about her eternal search for an identity. ![]() After the Cyclone accident, her body was found without its head - and she was never identified. Then there's the show's most offbeat invention, the sixth dead choir member: Jane Doe. There's Ocean (Rielle Braid), the half-Jewish, half-Catholic overachiever with a Marxist for a father and a Machiavellian energy lobbyist for a mother Misha (Carey Wass), the Ukrainian gangsta rapper in a long-distance Facebook romance with a Yulia Tymoshenko look-alike Constance (Kelly Hudson), the nicest girl in the school who loves cupcakes and secretly fantasizing about the deaths of her fellow students and Ricky (Elliott Loran), a comic-book-obsessed, piano-playing prodigy with the social skills of a slug who has the oddest inner life of all. Ride the Cyclone introduces us to fully drawn, original teenagers who go on to subvert our expectations. ![]() But it keeps on climbing - and there are dizzying peaks and more unexpected hairpin turns to come. (He has, in the words of a fellow choir member, "challenged my pre-conceived notion that gays are fun to be around.")īy the time Noel has finished revealing his secret desire to be an alcoholic prostitute in pre-war Paris in a show-stopping, trill-filled torch song, it seems impossible that this raucous roller-coaster ride can get any sillier or stranger. With his imminent demise about to be caused by a bass-playing rat named Virgil slowly chewing through his power cord, the robotic prognosticator gives his final reading - introducing us to this sextet of deceased teen choristers, each who has their life story to tell and a song to sing in a final choir recital in purgatory.įirst up is Noel Gruber (Kholby Wardell), a Jean Genet-reading existentialist burdened with being the only homosexual teenager in passionless, small-town Uranium. Ride the Cyclone is narrated by the Amazing Karnak, a fairground fortune-telling machine with the ability to foretell the time and place of one's death.
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