![]() The Amazing Karnak, gifted with the ability to predict the life and death of everyone he encountered is filled with guilt for not warning the children ahead of time, and shares that he has the power to bring one and only one of them back to life.Īfter Karnak’s offer, the show follows the choir’s strange celebration of hope and life as they perform one final concert. The six find themselves in an abandoned warehouse, greeted by a mechanical fortune teller. Tragically, the axle of their cart breaks at the peak of the loop-de-loop, sending the choir flying through the air. The show centers around the six members of a high school choir who make the fatal mistake of taking a ride on The Cyclone, a rickety rollarcoaster. The album completed exceeded every expectation I may have had for it, showcasing a completely unique and memorable show. ![]() While I was expecting the humor, darkness, and tounge-in-cheek feel, I was shocked to find that there were some parts of real sympathy for the characters and true emotion. “The show is after all a feel-good musical about untimely random death and loss,” he said in an interview with “I’ve had a great glut of untimely random deaths in my family, so my initial impulse for starting this show was to brighten myself up by writing a musical comedy about the subject.” In a time where I am happy to recieve any new theater content, this news made me estatic, and I eagerly counted down the days until it dropped.Ĭo-creator Jacob Richmond thought the pandemic was the perfect time to release an album of his show, which is now avalible on Apple Music, Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, and other online streaming services. In mid-April, it was announced that, almost out of nowhere, Ride the Cyclone, a unique, lesser-known Canadian-born musical would be releasing a cast recording.
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