Photo Flash: First Look at RIDE THE CYCLONE at Chicago Shakespeare Theater

By: Oct. 07, 2015
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Part comedy, part tragedy -- and wholly unexpected -- RIDE THE CYCLONE, a new musical from Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond, directed and choreographed by multiple Jeff Award-winner Rachel Rockwell, delivers surprises at every hairpin turn. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast onstage at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater below!

The lives of six teenagers from the St. Cassian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a doomed roller coaster. A mechanical fortune-teller, The Amazing Karnak, invites each to compete for the singular opportunity to return to life. Through a score that encompasses everything from pop and glam rock to Brechtian cabaret and rap, they share their stories-weaving a tale that is funny, irreverent and ultimately heartrending.

Originating as a cult classic cabaret piece in Canada, this dark musical comedy has been further developed with Chicago Shakespeare Creative Producer Rick Boynton for its highly anticipated American debut, presented in the theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare, now through November 8, 2015.

Photo Credit: Liz Lauren

Photo Flash: First Look at RIDE THE CYCLONE at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The six members of the doomed Saint Cassian chamber choir: Ricky Potts (Jackson Evans), Jane Doe (Emily Rohm), Noel Gruber (Kholby Wardell), Mischa Bachinski (Russell Mernagh), Constance Blackwood (Lillian Castillo) and Ocean O'Connell Rosenberg (Tiffany Tatreau)

Photo Flash: First Look at RIDE THE CYCLONE at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The mysterious Jane Doe (Emily Rohm), the one unidentified body of the Cyclone roller coaster disaster, is observed by the mechanical fortune teller The Amazing Karnack (Karl Hamilton)

Photo Flash: First Look at RIDE THE CYCLONE at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Despite the tragedy of their situation, Constance (Lillian Castillo) chooses to look back on her life with joy in 'Jawbreaker/Sugarcloud'

Photo Flash: First Look at RIDE THE CYCLONE at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Noel (Kholby Wardell) reimagines himself as 'a hooker with a heart of black charcoal' in post-war France

Photo Flash: First Look at RIDE THE CYCLONE at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Ocean (Tiffany Tatreau) and the entire Saint Cassian choir (from left, Russell Mernagh, Lillian Castillo, Emily Rohm, Jackson Evans and Kholby Wardell) face an uncertain future



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