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Ride The Cyclone
''Ride the Cyclone'' is a 2008 musical with music, lyrics and book by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell. It is the second installment in Richmond's "Uranium Teen Scream Trilogy", a collection of three theatrical works, one not yet written, that take place in the exaggerated Uranium City. Premise Members of the St. Cassian High School chamber choir of Uranium City, Saskatchewan, have perished on a faulty roller coaster called The Cyclone. Each tells their story, in song form, to win the reward from a mechanical fortune teller: the chance to return to life. Productions The world premiere production took place in Victoria, British Columbia at Atomic Vaudeville in 2008. It was directed by Britt Small with production design by Hank Pine and James Insell. A production played at the Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto in 2011, and there was a tour of Western Canada in 2013. The American premiere took place at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Directed by Rachel Rockwell, the production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer than 100. An "off-Broadway production" is a production of a play (theatre), play, musical theatre, musical, or revue that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Some shows that premiere off-Broadway are subsequently produced on Broadway. History The term originally referred to any venue, and its productions, on a street intersecting Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway in Midtown Manhattan's Theater District, New York, Theater District, the hub of the American theatre industry. It later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in Manhattan with a seating capacity of at least 100, but not more than 499, or a production that appears in such a venue and adhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choir
A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words is the music performed by the ensemble. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which spans from the Medieval music, medieval era to the present, or popular music repertoire. Most choirs are led by a conducting, conductor, who leads the performances with arm, hand, and facial gestures. The term ''choir'' is very often applied to groups affiliated with a church (whether or not they actually occupy the Choir (architecture), quire), whereas a ''chorus'' performs in theatres or concert halls, but this distinction is not rigid. Choirs may sing without instruments, or accompanied by a piano, accordion, pipe organ, a small ensemble, or an orchestra. A choir can be a subset of an ensemble; thus one speaks of the "woodwind c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Halper
Gus Halper (born July 2, 1992) is an American actor best known for his roles in the series ''Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders'' (2017), ''Fear the Walking Dead'' (2021), and '' Law & Order: Organized Crime'' (2022–2023), and in the films ''Goat'' (2016) and '' Rustin'' (2023). He also appeared in the 2016 off-Broadway production of the musical ''Ride the Cyclone'', playing Mischa Bachinski. Early life and education Halper was born on July 2, 1992 in Manhattan, New York City. His mother, Deann Simmons Halper, is an actress and theater director. Halper graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, which his mother had previously attended, in 2014. Career In 2014, while studying at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Halper played Romeo in the university's production of William Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet''. After graduating, he starred in the ABC television film ''The Kingmakers'' as Eli, a young man who infiltrates a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Wyse
Alex Wyse is an American stage and screen actor, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for playing Kyle in ''Iron Fist (TV series), Marvel's Iron Fist'', Saul Feinberg in ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', Max Weinbaum in the Broadway production of ''Good Night, Oscar,'' Georg Zirschnitz in the 2015 Deaf West Theatre, Deaf West Broadway revival of ''Spring Awakening (musical), Spring Awakening'', and co-writing/directing the feature film ''Summoning Sylvia''. Early life Wyse grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated from Beachwood High School. He later graduated from Boston University with a degree in theatre. Career On television, Wyse has appeared in multiple roles since 2010 including ''Elsbeth (TV series), Elsbeth, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Other Two,'' ''Bored to Death, Switched at Birth (TV series), Switched at Birth,'' ''The Bold and the Beautiful'', Iron Fist (TV series), ''Marvel's Iron Fist'', ''NCIS: Los Angeles,'' and ''Masters of Sex'' On film, he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Louderman
Taylor Louderman is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is best known for originating the role of Regina George in the Broadway musical ''Mean Girls'', for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2018. Early life and education Louderman was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and then raised in Bourbon, Missouri, a small town 60 miles southwest of St. Louis, Missouri. She is the eldest of five daughters born to Roger and Suzanne Louderman. In 2001, at the age of 10, she was cast in the title role of '' Annie'' at Ozark Actors Theatre in Rolla, Missouri. She graduated from Sullivan High School and then attended the University of Michigan for two years before leaving the program to star as Campbell in the touring production of '' Bring It On: The Musical''. In 2020, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Arts from The New School. Career After her sophomore year at the University of Michigan, Louderman appeared as Margot in 2011 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucille Lortel Theatre
The Lucille Lortel Theatre is an off-Broadway playhouse at 121 Christopher Street in Manhattan's West Village. It was built in 1926 as a 590-seat movie theater called the New Hudson, later known as Hudson Playhouse. The interior design is largely unchanged, though it had 295 seats. In the early 1950s, the site was converted to an off-Broadway theater as , opening on June 9, 1953, with a production of ''Maya'', a play by Simon Gantillon starring Kay Medford, Vivian Matalon, and Susan Strasberg. It closed after seven performances. Much more successful was ''The Threepenny Opera'' which opened March 10, 1954, with a cast that included Bea Arthur, John Astin, Lotte Lenya, Leon Lishner, Scott Merrill, Gerald Price, Charlotte Rae and Jo Sullivan. Because of an incoming booking, it was forced to close after 96 performances. Re-opening September 20, 1955, with largely the same cast, ''The Threepenny Opera'' this time played until December 17, 1961, a then record-setting run for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Rockwell
Rachel Rockwell (born Natalie Rachel Heyde; July 14, 1969 – May 28, 2018) was an American theater director, choreographer and performer. Early life Rockwell was born Natalie Rachel Heyde in Columbia, Missouri, the daughter of songwriter/teacher Gary Heyde (Austin Gary) and actress/teacher Glory (Kissel) Heyde. Her brother is Jeremy Spencer (Heyde), the former drummer of heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch. Beginning at seven, she studied dance with Ricki Smith Newman, Sylvia Watters and Evansville Dance Theater in Evansville, Indiana. At 13, she won a scholarship to study ballet at the National Academy of Arts in Champaign, Illinois. In 1993, while at University of Southern Indiana, she directed her first musical, ''Tintypes'', at the New Harmony Theater in New Harmony, Indiana. After college, she moved to Chicago. Career Beginning in the mid-1990s, Rockwell directed and choreographed dozens of productions for such theaters as: Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. Its more than six hundred annual performances performed 48 weeks of the year include its critically acclaimed Shakespeare series, its World's Stage touring productions, and youth education and family oriented programming. The theater had garnered 77 Joseph Jefferson awards and three Laurence Olivier Awards. In 2008, it was the winner of the Regional Theatre Tony Award. Founded in 1986 in a pub, in 1999 the CST moved to a purpose-built seven-story theater complex on Navy Pier, where it has a main 500 seat space called the Courtyard, and the 200 seat Theater Upstairs. In 2017, it expanded on the pier into a connected three-theater-campus with the addition of The Yard, a flexible space that allows for versatile arrangements from 150 seats to 850 seats and from proscenium to in-the-round. Background The company's founding artistic director Barbara Gaines f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Passe Muraille
Theatre Passe Muraille is a theatre company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is on Ryerson Avenue in the Alexandra Park neighbourhood of Toronto. Brief history One of Canada's most influential alternative theatres, Theatre Passe Muraille ("theatre beyond walls") was founded in 1968 by director and playwright Jim Garrard, who started the company out of Rochdale College. Its intention was to create a distinctly Canadian voice in theatre. It was conceived with the notion that theatre should transcend real estate and that plays can be made and staged anywhere — in barns, in auction rings, in churches, bars, basements, lofts, even in streetcars. The company was interested in the idea that theatre should endeavour to be a mirror, not a vehicle of social change. The company gained local notoriety when it was charged with obscenity for the play ''Futz'' by American playwright Rochelle Owens, about a farmer who falls in love with his pig. Jim Garrard was succeeded by Martin Kinch, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimbo (drag Queen)
James Insell (born November 10, 1982), better known by the stage name Jimbo, is a Canadian designer and drag queen who competed in the first season of ''Canada's Drag Race'' (2020)'',''Mike Devlin"Victoria's Jimbo seeks drag-queen crown". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', July 2, 2020. was in the first series of '' RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World'' (2022), and won the eighth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars'' (2023). Early life and education From London, Ontario, Insell, his brother Jeff, as well as sisters Samantha and Jennifer, were born to Mary Insell and James Peter Insell (1947–2018), both boys being interested in creative pursuits from childhood, including early drag play.Mollie Kaye"James and his giant peach add sparkle to Victoria". ''Focus on Victoria'', September 6, 2019. His father received his PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Western Ontario in 1983. Respecting his father's wishes that he pursue a career-oriented education, he stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortune Teller
Fortune telling is the spiritual practice of predicting information about a person's life. Melton, J. Gordon. (2008). ''The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena''. Visible Ink Press. pp. 115–116. The scope of fortune telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune telling implies a less serious or formal setting, even one of popular culture, where belief in occult workings behind the prediction is less prominent than the concept of suggestion, spiritual or practical advisory or affirmation. Historically, Pliny the Elder describes use of the crystal ball in the 1st century CE by soothsayers (''"crystallum orbis"'', later written in Medieval Latin by scribes as ''orbuculum''). Contemporary Western images of fortune telling grow out of folkloristic reception of Renaissance magic, specifically assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortune Teller Machine
A fortune teller machine (also known as a genie machine or mechanical genie) is a type of amusement automaton, which upon receiving credit gives out a card with a prediction of the reader's future. This is typically given by an automaton. They could be found in penny arcades, and can be seen in modern video arcades and amusement parks. Notable examples *Verbal Fortune Teller - Mills Novelty Co, c. 1904 – One unique machine, perhaps the only extant version in the world, survives in a museum in Virginia City, Montana. It features a recorded voice and eerie animatronics. "The 100-year-old fortune teller was an extremely rare find. Instead of dispensing a card like Zoltar, the Gypsy would actually speak your fortune from a hidden record player. When you dropped a penny in the slot, her eyes would flash, her teeth would chatter and her voice would come floating from a tube extending out of the eight-foot -tall box. This machine also provided fortunes for males and females separat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
