Auditions for “RIDE THE CYCLONE”
Schedule
Sat Mar 08 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
Congregational United Church of Christ Greensboro | Greensboro, NC
Auditions for "Ride the Cyclone" by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell on March 7th and 8th at 7 pm and March 9th at 2 pm. The audition location is 400 W Radiance Drive, Greensboro NC. Please use the lower, side entrance across from the parking lot. We will be in the first room on the left as you enter the lower level. Those auditioning should be 18 years of age or older. Be prepared to sing a song of your choice (bring sheet music in the correct key or an accompaniment recording).
The director is Andy Mock with musical direction by CJ Albee.
Ride the Cyclone is a Canadian musical written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell. It follows the stories of the spirits of six teenagers who were in the St. Cassian High School chamber choir that are summoned after perishing on a roller coaster accident. The six teenagers are informed that one of them will be resurrected, and they have to plead their case as to why they deserve it the most.
In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other — the chance to return to life. This popular musical is a funny, moving look at what makes a life well-lived!
Characters:
The Amazing Karnak:
An omniscient fortune-telling machine that can accurately predict the time, place and cause of someone's death but is unable to tell them in the human world, possibly due to his 'Family Fun Novelty Mode'. It is said that he knew of the teens' demises prior to the freak accident. Karnak reads each of the characters' lives using their birthdays and full names.
Virgil The Rat:
A rat, made to play the bass by Karnak, that has been slowly chewing through Karnak's power cable for the past two years, causing both of them to die at the end of the show.
Ocean O'Connell Rosenberg - "The Most Successful Girl in Town"
Overachiever, straight-A student and choir captain with a superiority complex, Ocean is a self proclaimed social Darwinist, Buddhist, Christian and Jew who believes the other members of the choir will never amount to anything in life.
Noel Gruber - "The Most Romantic Boy in Town"
The only gay boy in their small conservative town, Noel is obsessed with tragedy and New Wave French cinema and secretly fantasizes of being a sex worker named Monique Gibeau in Post-War France, but instead works a job he hates at the Taco Bell in their local megamall.
Mischa Bachinski - "The Angriest Boy in Town"
A Ukrainian adoptee with a drinking problem who was brought to Canada after his mother (who was dying from uranium poisoning) lied about his age on his birth certificate. His adoptive parents, expecting a toddler and instead getting a fully grown teenager, put him in the basement and left him to his own devices, making him turn to "the last bastion of pure strength and masculinity in society", commercialized, autotuned hip-hop. On his YouTube channel, where he posted his music, he met a fellow Ukrainian named Natalia, who eventually became his full-time online fianceé.
Ricky Potts - "The Most Imaginative Boy in Town"
Born with an unnamed disease that left him unable to walk or talk, Ricky was ignored by his peers most of his life, causing his overactive imagination to create a fictional cat planet named Zolar, that he, as the character "Space Age Bachelor Man", rescues.
"Jane Doe" - "The Most Forgettable Girl in Town"
The one unidentified body of the Cyclone Accident was decapitated when the roller coaster derailed and her head was never found, which led to her replacing her missing head with that of a doll, which she then proceeds to carry around the headless doll body. The choir director, having died a couple hours after the accident, was unidentified, buried as a 'Jane Doe'. This caused her to forget her own life during the events of Ride the Cyclone.
Constance Blackwood - "The Nicest Girl in Town"
A seemingly innocent and sweet girl with a secret, dark, self-loathing and dirty side, she reveals she lost her virginity to a ~32-year-old carnie in a porta-potty just hours before the accident. She describes how she secretly began to hate both herself and her family for having pride in their small town after she got to high school and how guilty she felt about it.
The performance dates are May 16th, 17th, 18th, 23rd, 24th, and 25th. Please email [email protected] if you have questions or if you’re not available on the audition dates and wish to submit a video audition.
***Triad Pride Acting Company's mission is committed to diverse, inclusive casting. We welcome all interested performers, without regard to ability race, color, gender expression, national origin, or any other basis - unless casting is specifically indicated ahead of time.
Where is it happening?
Congregational United Church of Christ Greensboro, 400 W Radiance Dr, Greensboro, NC 27403-1228, United States,Greensboro, North Carolina
