Musical To Open at Hartwick
ONEONTA—“Ride the Cyclone,” a darkly comedic, one-act musical written by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell and directed by Marc Shaw, comes to Hartwick College’s Slade Theatre November 7–13.
AllOtsego’s Rachel Frick Cardelle chats with the director, cast and crew in her “On Stage” column this week.
Written in 2008, the musical premiered in Canada at the Atomic Vaudeville Theatre Company in Victoria, British Columbia. Then, in 2022, it went viral on TikTok when song clips from the off-Broadway production began circulating.
At the start of the play the emcee of the whole show introduces itself: The Amazing Karnak, a mechanical fortune teller whose specialty is being able to predict the precise moment of a person’s death. The musical revolves around each of the six teens having an opportunity to explain to The Amazing Karnak why he or she should be the one person allowed to return to life.
You can watch “Ride the Cyclone,” directed by Marc Shaw, at the Slade Theater in Yager Hall on Hartwick College’s campus November 7-8 and 13–15 at 8 p.m. or November 9 at 2 p.m. To reserve tickets, call (607) 431-4227 or e-mail theatre@hartwick.edu.
Next up: “Scapino,” written by Jim Dale and Frank Dunlop and directed by Kiara Pipino, at SUNY Oneonta’s Goodrich Theater, November 13-16.
Frick Cardelle’s full column on “Ride the Cyclone” can be found at https://www.allotsego.com/on-stage-a-musical-thats-gone-viral-and-the-messages-it-carries/
