RIDE THE CYCLONE *Show* Reaction - Ep. 42 of Musicals I Know Nothing About
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- Very much relating to Constance after reacting to the Ride the Cyclone show: "I'm so happy right now I could never come down!"
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#ridethecyclone #musicaltheatre #reaction - Hudba
There may be a weird noise in the background of this video. Apparently my laptop's fan decided to be a dear and make roller coaster noises during the reaction, you know, to get in the mood 😒Hopefully it's not too disruptive. Apologies for that! (unless you like roller coaster noises, then you're in for a treat haha)
I mean, isn't that kind of perfect, given the subject matter?
Kinda is, right? ;)
How fitting!!
It also kind of sounds like an old movie projector which also fits.
Fair. Thanks for the help! Hahahaha
„He dropped the f-bomb in the actual chorus.“
Fornication
Under
Consent of the
King
Jane just spelled it out. Kind of iconic that she doesn’t remember her past but this word somehow stuck.
THIS IS ACTUALLY SO FUNNY AND I NEVER NOTICED IT 💀 THANK YOU SO MUCH
Fornication Under Consent Of The King is the assumed origin of the word fuck
@@calamity2383 It's not. That's a myth.
“Time eats all his children in the end” my mythology loving heart CANNOT with that reference. Kronos the god of time ate all his children, the current gods of the Greek mythology
Yeeeeeeees, I totally forgot to comment on that and was hoping someone would mention it, but it makes me very happy too
Yep! And, the fact that Jane is wrong foreshadows that she'll be the one to go back too! Kronos never ate Zeus, his youngest (last) son. Jane is implied to be the last to die, being that she screams all through Fall Fair/Uranium suite, and is introduced to the audience last. She is the Zeus of this situation
Iirc, that's a different Kronos. You're probably talking about the titan one, father of Zeus who ate all his children.
@@goosewho2903 no i am referring to the kronos of greek mythology, in my language both are zeus and kronos are referred as gods as we dont have word for titan
@@wolframshibuya2693 yeah but, the god of time Kronos is different from the one that ate Zeus and his siblings
fun fact!!
a lot of people say that sugar cloud was the only dance that the kids had free will and weren't moved against their will.
I love everything Jane does, including holding the mic for Constance during the solo. Watching Jane groove and then be like _why am I holding a tambourine_ is hilarious. I've seen a couple other productions where Ocean holds the mic for Constance, and both are completely valid choices based on Constance's arc with both of them.
I agree
Also during "the new birthday song" granted they make that one on the spot because plot but at the end when Karnak die they do perform "it's just a ride" of their own free will, because it's them excepting their death (but that does make me wonder about Jane "i know this dream of life is never ending it goes around and round again")
@@pdtrx4900 I think it means that in the future, Jane/Penny will see them all again. And they’ll be waiting, too.
Fun fact; according to a popular fan theory, Noel and Mischa waltzing together is meant to portray them holding onto each other as they fell. not canon, but a good idea nonetheless!
(also ty to the dude in the replies who informed me that this concept was, in fact, just a fan theory)
Holy crap that’s so adorable 😭
That's actually not canon, just a popular fan-theory!
@@aleeyalopz4730 oh genuinely didn't know kekw
its canon in my eyes
@@themelodicduo7759its canon in our hearts 😌😌
I don't know if anyone mentioned this but
Noel's Lament is actually a ballad. A ballad about him wishing he had lived a tragedy before he died. (I believe that's the reason)
The ballad of Jane Doe is actually a lament. She is lamenting over not knowing who she used to be in her life.
Yeah someone mentioned it on the other video, I'm obsessed with that
@@Barbara2.0 yeah, I remember my brain malfunctioning when I first found out
yeah, I saw a tumblr post that said that Noel's lament is a ballad and the ballad of jane doe is a lament lmao
My own personal theory for this is because what Noel wanted was a lament, he wanted a lament because he craved a sad story, likewise Jane wanted a ballad, she wanted a story to tell :)
@@therealkaching OH MY GOD YOUR RIGHT!
Idk if anyone else said this but in the end karnak says "your lucky number is 7" and right before we find out that Jane/Penny's birthday is "april 7, aries the lucky nature".
at the beginning of the musical karnak says he read all their fortunes, maybe that was Jane's
@@Bread_n_Butter420He said he’s read everyone’s fortune but Jane’s, which is why he didn’t know who she is.
@@josephsherby Maybe that would’ve been her fortune if Karnak told it?
also there’s 7 characters (we’re not including virgil)
And also, Father Markus died exactly 7 hours after the incident
Funfact: The autotune/rap part in Talia is suppose to represent the rage he feels that he never got to meet her 😁
nice benny pfp
TALLLLIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I said this on the original video, but part of what I think makes the show genius is its setting. Being set in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere really lets it reverse a lot of the typical high school tropes. The popular mean girl isn't the rich fashionista but rather the smartest girl in town who actually has a chance of making it out, and the one who is considered "uncool" is the only one who actually loves her town and doesn't want to leave. Something else that is important to know is that the script has gone through quite a lot of changes over the years. The one in this bootleg isn't the one that's currently used (You can read about half of the current one online for free!) but in every iteration, Ocean and Constance's relationship has been the heart of the show for me
Great insight, my friend! :)
And this is not the first either. The one before this had two acts and more characters
As someone from a small town in the middle of nowhere that’s very accurate lol
Yeah ride the cyclones part of a trilogy it hunk that's the word it's the second part all the parts are set in uranium and penny lamb is one of the main characters in the first one called lego land
WHERES THE OG VID PLS-
at 6:17, that particular tune is actually supposed to be Jane falling off of the coaster instead of all of them :) Ricky also is the only one who can hear or at least acknowledges her voice, also alluding to her line in her ballad "a melody floats through the air, when silence falls does no one care" showing that nobody seemed to notice her screaming when she flew off but only noticed the group
OHMYGOD
"When a lioness has children, she stops making love to the lion. The lion gets jealous-sometimes so jealous he eats the children. You'd think this would upset the lioness. Far from it. They make love again like the children never existed. I find that idea terrifying"
“I’m gonna stand, a little farther away from you now.”
Ah if you didn’t understand what Jane meant when she said “Fornication Under Consent of the King” she basically was saying Fuck in a special way😂
Oh yeah, I did. Was just stunned by the words she used hahahaha
I remember when I first watched the show and I was so confused!! It wasn’t until I read the lyrics that I realized it was fuck
It's a little thing, but once you see it, you always see it; Jane Doe's hands. She holds them in a specific way, like a doll's hands, from start to finish. Emily Rohm absolutely nailed the "haunted doll" persona, down to the most minute detail.
I even find the way she blinks doll-like (eventhough they don't blink)
@@lottekomkommer That too! Dolls that closed their eyes were a big thing from the early 1900's to the 1980's. Totally appropriate for the "doll's head" she's wearing. 👍
@@ChristopherRuggles Plurals don't use apostrophes. It's just 1900s and 1980s.
@@englishatheartI rely on autocorrect a lot due to memory loss from Long Covid. But thanks for the belittlement. That was fun.
@@ChristopherRuggles Wasn't really belittlement, just a correction, but go you!!! 😍😘😘 I'm sure strangers on the Internet care about your tragic memory loss 🥺🥺
Edit: My friend's comment on this: "i mean @englishatheart kinda no one asked but wtv pop off but also @ChristopherRuggles babygirl i think u just mad + how has memory loss got anything to do with whether u use apostrophes or not i seriouslt doubt your memory is that far gone that u physically can’t remember when u need an apostrophe or not bcos at that point its fuckin dementia not long covid mate" AND LMAOOO I AGREE WITH MY MATE SO MUCH
I once heard someone describe this musical as "reverse Cats" and I can't get that out of my head
I definitely got Cats vibes when I first watched this show. It reminded me of that video essay by Sideways where it said that basically Cats only works because of Memory. You'd be a dick to hear Memory and then think that any of the other cats deserve to be reborn. With this, it's the Ballad of Jane Doe. As soon as she sings that, you can't imagine anyone else being chosen to come back to life.
Space Age Bachelor Man flashbacks 😭
I was waiting for the “is she flying”
shoe to drop
Hahahaha took a while for my brain to process that was actually happening xD
@@Barbara2.0 did I mention SHE FLIES! Emily Rohm deserves all the awards.
Couldn't agree more!!!
"why does he hate her so much" made me want to comment about what I think Karnak is actually trying to do.
I think that the whole show Karnak is trying to help Ocean become a better person and accept her death so she can pass onto the afterlife peacefully. She wants to vote for herself because its a unanimous vote and she wants to do everything in her power to win so he switches it up on her and makes her make the decision by herself. He is constantly playing with her to help her see that she wasn't a good person and help her recognise that. I think that's really sweet of him and makes their storyline very cute.
There's a theory going around with how everyone is singing abt being dead in Fall Fair Suite while Jane Doe is still 'screaming', and I'd like to add on how she shows up later than the others. Basically it is thought she is the last to die/everyone was already dead and Jane Doe is still falling and screaming
Ohh that might explain why she was introduced a little bit later than the others, since she died after them?
@@ChuuyasCvmslut iirc, when someone is beheaded there's still a little bit of oxygen on their brain which allows the brain to keep working for a little bit before finally dying
It's not a lot so it's not like they can stay alive for a long time, but it's long enough to keep them "alive" for a little bit
Since Jane is introduced later, it's possible that when she got beheaded she was still alive for a few moments and that's why she showed up later, this is backed up by the line: "And from the ground, beneath my feet, I hear the anguish of the street" which also could mean that she was alive for a *little* while after being beheaded
The man playing Karnak is my friend Karl Hamilton (we went to high school together). He played the role in Chicago, New York and Seattle. (Unfortunately they didn't use him on the soundtrack.) It's a very impressive costume they had on him. Apparently, many first time viewers really thought it was a puppet.
Absolutely amazing!
He sounds so much better than the soundtrack
I have a head cannon that the machine told Nole all that stuff about his funeral to give him his wish of feeling true betrayal.
Also with Ricky’s song I think it’s important to be thinking about Ocean’s comments during her song when analyzing it. He probably heard a lot of similar comments or sentiments in his life, so him coming up with a world in which his genetic makeup is necessary and where he is encouraged to reproduce I think is probably a reaction to sentiments of social Darwinism and eugenics. He is seen not just as a whole person in his song but as someone important and vital.
Noel*
hey fun fact! While Uranium is actually a real town in Canada, I like to think they set the musical there because the kids lived a half life
A nuclear chemistry joke nice
Yeah, I got into Ride the Cyclone just before my class was doing nuclear chemistry
When listening to Uranium Suite, the "we came here for the half life" happened and the joke clicked and everything made sense
This, but also that comment about how Mischa's real mom died from radiation at Chernobyl. He was spared from losing his life to uranium like his mother only to have the life sucked out of him rotting in a basement in Uranium, while his only source of love was back in the country he had been sent away from.
ALSO!!!
If you look at the very begginning of the musical where they show all the choir members' faces on the projector, you can see jane doe for a SPLIT second covering her face with her hands.
About the second fact. I don't think it's her. I know this did occur, but she just played this role in early shows like the Canadian cast.
Can I have the timestamp for the first fact?
before i watched the musical i heard noel’s lament and what the world needs, never would i ever have thought they were the same musical. the absolute whiplash the show has lmao
yeah dude, i heard tragic fact, what the world needs, noel's lament and the ballad of jane doe not knowing how they were literally all the same musical xDDDD
I love how distinct all the songs are, they do a great job at representing how different each character is :)
I love talia so much, I’ve made a whole essay analyzing that song specifically. The way it slowly builds up into the folk music as you said absolutely shatters my heart everytime. And the symbolism is just so… I love the way Jane stayed projecting talia on her skirt much longer then ocean and constance, since her and talia were never strictly identified, they’re both unknown. And the way it breaks into the same genre as Mischa’s first song near the end to symbolize his rage that he’ll never meet the one he loves is just,,, god this musical does things to me
this!!! and it’s projected on jane because she has no sense of her own personality/body and she’s represented as talia because nobody really can be
Omg i want to read this essay SO BAD would you consider sharing it?
super late but i wanna read this essay.
My favorite thing about mishas song is that whenever he tries to touch talia the projection gets pulled away showing that he will truly never marry her.
"Do mischa and noel have a thing?"
*smiles in noel's lament*
REAL
Something I find so funny in the beginning of the musical Ocean says “teen sex kills’
Constance just over here lost her virginity a hour before they died
Three
"Ricky is probably the least like what I was expecting" Keep in mind, Ricky and Mischa are both played by different actors here than in the cast recording, so that likely will influence your reaction as well.
You ask early on if Misha and Noel have a thing early on because of the group hug bit, but even earlier they're actually waltzing together during the "spinning round and round and round" scene
nischa my beloveds
nischa the world
Nischa my beloved
I think it's interesting that while Misha thought they'd both go back to back, Noel went in for a hug like the girls, leaving them both a little awkward
Noel and mischa rlly are the scrunkly wunklys
‘you might live for a day or eternity
theres no time for a judge or a referee
no one will measure how hard we tried’
these lyrics hit the absolute hardest because of how real they are
Im more of a melody person than lyrics which song is that from???
@@wolframshibuya2693 “it’s not a game it’s just a ride”
i must say, my favorite part of this whole show is how enthusiastic jane is as a background dancer without fail, it's just so lovely to see her having fun
32:10
When you realise the actress had a HARNESS ON that was probably a bit constricting and STILL MANAGED TO HIT THOSE NOTES!
I love Ricky's character, and especially the way that this actor threads the delicate balance of likability, because it's so easy to push Ricky into the category of either "unrepentant horndog" or "tragic disabled person who chooses death because it's better that way", neither of which I feel represents him. He is fundamentally zen, realistic about his wants and abilities, amused by his changes in circumstances, but absolutely accepting wherever life (or death) takes him. And the way that this actor somehow manages to balance a realistically awkward depiction of someone who's been mute for years with genuine Ziggy Stardust vibes is amazing!
(But yeah, watching the show makes his character make SO much more sense than the cast recording alone, the latter is quite the decontextualized mindfuck!)
Fun fact: Karnak is indeed an actor,using a headpiece/mask and another costume accessories.
Barbara's reaction to Jane Doe flying was me: "WHAT? YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS. THIS IS NOT EVEN..."
the pictures used in the slideshow after jane doe got revived are mostly the actress' childhood and life! (except for the ones where it's a baby and an old woman, those are different actors.) most of them are real, some are fabricated though.
God, Constance's speech about shame just gets me, man. I basically have that whole monologue memorized by now, lol. And for an extra gut punch, just think about how much of that shame likely comes from Ocean and how Ocean looks so sorry after "Sugar Cloud".
I will say though, the elements about losing her virginity to the carnie never feels organic to me? Not that it doesn't make sense for her story, but the way it's presented. Nothing prompts her to blurt this out first. And I never get the "Constance the lifer loses it to a carnie in a crap box. Why of course she did" bit. Maybe because this is one of the first things they wrote for the show, I don't know.
I love that speech so much as well, especially the whole "I was thinking awful things about my parents that I didn't want to because they were good people". Ugh it's so real. The way you can lose control of your own thoughts and feelings because of peer pressure/gaslighting is awful and that speech reflects that so well. I think the whole virginity thing makes a lot of sense for her though because she's the type of person who used to do things just to please other people or feel included and losing her virginity to a stranger in a carnival is a pretty bad thing so it kinda helps reinforce how far she was willing to go to feel like the other kids
I always saw Constance losing her virginity as two things. 1: The complete opposite of what Ocean wanted her to be and 2: her conforming to what the teens around her are. It wasn't exactly nice, or something she enjoyed, but something she had to do to be a "normal" teen. She isn't proud of the choice.
I get what you're saying about it not feeling organic. They tried a little too hard to make her pathetic. Peeling glue off her fingers, untying a knot, having sex in a shitbox, etc. She would've committed suicide.
As someone who really relates to constance in a lot of ways, I disagree. Idk you tend to just blurt those things out. I also lost my virginity in a way I'm very ashamed of just to lose it because I felt I lived my life in a box as just the nice prudish kid. It's sporadic but that what you devolve to when you feel like a loser. I also am one to blurt out things like that when I get emotional or when I feel like I won't be judged because you're so used to holding in that shame that you just want to let it out, even if it seems out of place. It would honestly feel more forced to me if there was build up because building up to saying things like that makes you want to retreat more.
I always really understood that line actually. There’s a certain point you can reach in hating yourself where you start to wish bad things on yourself or complicitly let easily avoided things happen or even seek them out because you think it’s what you deserve or that it proves that you are what you think you are, and there’s consolation in being right and having “proof” you’re right. In Constance’s case she thinks she’s a loser and that this proves it. You stop seeing yourself as you and start seeing yourself as this other person that you hate or as this character in a story that you’re just helping reach it’s “logical” conclusion. “Constance the lifer loses it to a carnie in a crap box. Why of course she did.” She feels like that’s the logical conclusion. Hopefully that makes sense.
I think my favorite thing about rtc reactions is watching people realize Jane is flying. It’s so funny every time
9:35 OMG YES BC THEN JANE NEVER LOSES HER HEAD, SHE'S WHOLE, COMPLETE, AND SHE ALSO GETS TO COMPLETE HER LIFE, EVERYTHING IS WHOLE.
OMG I NEVER NOTICED THE FORESHADOWING
19:06 to explain for those (like me) who didn't get it at first:
Fornication
Under
Consent of the
King
21:40 also apparently what Ricky said was binary for 'w'
Actually I’m pretty sure he’s saying “+” not “W”
yesss fall fair suite stans rise
For real though, something that’s super interesting to look into is the different versions of the opening song for this show. There are four main ones over the years (with minor alterations in different shows): Uranium / Tragic Fact, Fall Fair Suite (the one in the production you watched), Uranium Suite (the one on the cast album), and Waiting for the Drop. Fall Fair Suite is my personal fave, but they’re all bangers, and it’s really interesting to see what they drop or keep coming back to as the show evolves. If you do ever look into them, on your own or for a video, I’d highly recommend finding videos, the choreography is so cool for all of them!
Wow I didn't know that. Love seeing how a show develops so I'll definitely look into them. Thanks!
During the final number (it's not a game/it's just a ride) during the "around around and round again" all the choir look like their all going to go and live and go into formation but its just the formation of the rollercoaster and the platform just moves them back into position to relive the moment of the accident... and the accident will just replay "around around and round again"... they will just have to suffer with reliving the trauma of it replaying constantly... forever.. "It goes on and on and never ends"
If you think about it
The whole thing was made for Ocean (And jane)
Because Jane was gonna win no matter what because karnak could just choose who to bring back to life and he can also control what people do so he could just force people to vote for who he wants
And out of everyone
Ocean is the restless spirit because everyone was like sad but content with their death but Ocean was not
Everything Karnak does to Ocean is so that she learns her lesson
Like making her go first so she has the most time to develop
There's more that i can't remember from the top of my head
But in the end Karnak made Ocean be the deciding vote to make sure that she learns her lesson and grew
Who Ocean votes for doesn't really matter since Karnak has the power but he made Ocean vote to make sure she had learned her lesson
This just from a video about Ride the cyclone so i might be wrong
I mean Karnak does control them at times to keep the story moving along (with the musical sequences), but he does emphasize at the beginning that their wills are their own. I personally think he just said that to explain why they were going along with the choreography and backing of each song (especially in Ocean's song at the beginning, i mean if a person called you and everyone else losers that are never getting ahead in life while singing thier own praises. I personally wouldn't want to be a part of the human pyramid she stands on.) But that is certainly a plausible theory though. I do agree that Karnak does encourage Ocean to develop throughout, and his decisions do reflect that, but I don't think Karnak would have forced a particular vote. It would go against the whole premise of making someone change by thier own free will, if Karnak had forced Ocean to vote for Jane she would have learned nothing. Ocean had to develop on her own, Karnak just helped with the process.
The more often you watch Ride the Cyclone, the more seriously you take Misha. "Talia" is now the song that makes me cry the most, even more so than "The Ballad of Jane Doe"
The first photos of the babys when Jane doe is resurrected aren’t the actress but the rest of the photos are of her actress Emily Rohm!
The remark about the characters in the background of Jane’s number being “incognito” is an interesting take over never heard. I thought they were simple mourners at an internment, but that doesn’t have to be exclusive.
21:40 , I was expecting a comment about how Mischa hits Ricky's face with the mic 😭
First of all, your cap is stunning!
And your reaction to the Ballad of Jane Doe is everything I ever wanted, it's just absolutely heartrending in its beauty. Just every time I watch it I think about how wonderful art is. I'm so glad that you were able to experience the personalities and humor of each of the kids, as it's such a core element of why the show works in the first place. I'll never get over It's Not a Game/It's Just a Ride. Every time I watch it my feelings get pummeled 😭. The love in just living. Have a wonderful time zone!
I would also highly recommend listening to "clockmaker's Daughter" musical! It's a beautiful severely underrated musical with stunning vocals and orchestrations!
I absolutely love this show! The amount of breath support you have to have to sing just about anything of these songs let alone upside down?? Is crazy. Though as a disabled person the treatment of ricky’s character is gross and supposedly theyre working on rewriting the book slightly to be less ableist
I HAVE BEEN SO STARVED FOR RTC REACTION CONTENT THANK YOU SO MUCH 🙏🙏🙏
I feel weird that I got an amusement park ad on this video...
All I'll say is, DON'T GO to that amusement park!!!
I do wanna point out that the writing of having Ricky concede is playing into the idea that disabled people are better off dead, regardless of his personal circumstances and reasons for conceding. The way that you interpreted his conceding is due to that idea that he couldn’t possibly be happy in life again is inherently ableist, but you aren’t alone in thinking that about him. It’s ingrained into a lot of media and society as a whole so it’s not a rare thing for people to assume disabled people would rather be dead, or would be better off that way. From my perspective as a physically disabled teenager, it feels uncomfortable. It’s strange and upsetting that some people think it would be better if people like me were dead, if I were dead. They believe that I can’t live a full and happy life, just because of my disability. I’ve also got gripes with the fact that he’s a disabled character intended for able-bodied actors, but that’s a whole other can of worms.
Hey lovely, my deepest apologies if I made you feel uncomfortable. I totally understand where you're coming from and wanted to make it clear where I'm coming from as well. The idea of him being better off dead would never even cross my mind, my comments in the video are about the people he had to deal with in life treating him as less than. It's about being away from people who caused him harm and treated him differently because of his disability. It's also not about him being better off dead, but being better off in a kinder place where he is free from a world that discriminates against him, not from his disability. I'm really sorry if I came across the wrong way or caused you any discomfort, my sincerest apologies, it was definitely not my intention
i thought the reason for his conceding was that because of his disability not exactly being something he could hide and knowing that where they live is pretty closed minded because of some things implied in some of the monologues (also how it’s implied ocean only got him in the club for sympathy points) that living there would be hard for him especially after dying and being able to move and talk as he liked that he was happier dead, i didn’t think of it like this😭 this really changed my point of view
I’ve read a lot of the discussion around this character, and I just want to say in response to this particular point, while it is a valid one, his intro makes it clear that he’s not so much “disabled” as he is terminally ill. He wasn’t born that way, and doesn’t have the prospect of a full (if different) life if he survives the accident. I think his concession isn’t implying disabled people don’t have lives worth living, but that Ricky has already come to terms with his death, and would rather die quickly in a roller coaster accident than slowly of a degenerative disease. If there’s a larger point to be made, it’s that terminally ill people have the right to choose death on their own terms.
Yeah the way he’s written is definitely uncomfortable, though I do think that his reason for conceding wasn’t bc he could not be happy, but bc he was already dying and had come to terms with his death, of course he wants to live again but he’s not going to be selfish and take another person’s chance at life, which is what the others realize.
This is just a personal opinion, but you made me want to share my thoughts as well :D
I'm also disabled, and I think there was potential here for sure. They didn't have him - or the others - say he'd be better off not returning because his disability. He was also portrayed as being incredibly caring throughout the whole show, so the "don't be a dick" line feels like a perfectly believable reason why he'd concede!
Misha's line about him being so "awesome in the afterline" is a big yikes though, that could have been worded better. Or at least been at a different moment, right after he concedes it reads too much as what you brought up.
The decision to simply make him not disabled (among many other changes) for new performances irks me a lot. They didn't even make an effort to improve on what could have been great representation!
Like what if they made it a point to clarify that his disabilities don't just disappear when he's that, because that's such an annoying concept and so harmful too, but because of Karnak's power or because his vivid imagination causes those changes in the twilight zone? It being such an in-between state would make sense for that!
Maybe he could sign instead of speaking? Even if he suddenly gained the ability to speak, it would surely still feel more comfortable to sign.
Just, so many things they could have considered.
Fun Fact! Ride The Cyclone is part of the "Uranium Teen Scream Trilogy". It is the second in the series. The first is called "Legoland" and one of the main characters is none other than "Penny Lamb". It isn't clear if Jane was Penny before, after and got reincarnated as her or both at the same time.
"Do Noel and Mischa have a thing?"
According to Noel's actor, maybe🤭
just saying in case you didn't know, the intro in what you watched here is Fall Fair Suite!! it's a completely different song to Uranium Suite, and Uranium Suite does have live cast recordings! there are also other ones, for example Waiting For the Drop and Tragic Fact!!
No matter if it’s the live performance or the cast recording or if I’ve heard it a million times, Noel’s falsetto at the end of his song always impresses me
Edit: I’m starting to realize part of why I love Mischa so much is because he bounces around so much during his little monologue before his song and I also bounce around when I’m getting emotional or passionate about things
This is the second show in the “Uranium Teen Scream Trilogy”. The first was called Legoland. There are only two characters in it: Penny Lamb and her brother Ezra. I don’t think there are any recordings floating around, but you can find the script online. It’ll give you an idea of why no one identified Jane Doe.
Space age bachelor man in the musical is SO different from the cast recording and I must say, the live versions sound 100x better than the studio versions in my opinion
The show truly elevates most of the songs, it's a really different experience from listening to the cast recording
@@Barbara2.0 it’s so high energy in the show and I love it. Amazing musical
I love watching peoples reaction to Jane flying while singing.
Emily Rohm is truly amazing.
SHE TRULY IS
Mishcha and Noel’s interactions are so cute ❤
I went down a rabbit hole a few days ago when I finally decided to listen to the cast recording. I then proceeded to watch the bootleg, and then I started looking up fanart. So, a very productive all night binge if I do say so myself.
From just listening to the cast recording I was tied between Noel’s Lament and Ballad of Jane Doe for my favourite song thinking one of them would be my favourite character, but the bootleg blindsided me and Mischa ended up being my favourite character. I cried after the Talia sequence. I do still love them all though, they’re all so sweet and funny. Loved it❤
If you’re looking for any more musicals, I cannot reccomend Bandstand enough, one of my favourites. The songs are fantastic, and if you watch the recording, you’ll see they’re all playing their own instruments.
She Loves Me is also another very good pick if you want more of a funny romantic comedy via some penpal miscommunications.
The characters are so loveable in both!
Yes!!! I’m so glad you reacted to the show!! The Ballad of Jane Doe is definitely jaw dropping no matter how many times you watch it. 😂
i’m still patiently waiting for that Fun Home reaction, i’ve been saying this for over a year for sure😂
Aaaaaahh coming 2023 for sure
I’m so excited especially because its one of the few shows where you can get most of the story from the album
@@averynerdybookworm972 yeah exactly, like you basically get the whole show and all context that’s needed all in the album
I’m so sad I didn’t get to see your immediate reaction to Noel and mischa’s kiss in Noel’s lament
I love all the regrences but the one that I just realized after watching for the 100th time was the Alice in Wonderland. In the beginning song, Noel sung that "the bunny ran away and disappeared", suggested that they were entering Wonderland but throughout all the songs they would describe life as a never ending dream. So it would either be saying that life is closer to wonderland and that death was merely waking them up or the other way around. Lol probably not it but I thought it was an intresting thing to shoot out!
I WANTED THIS SINCE THE FIRST RTC VIDEO AHHHH TYSM
Thank you for being so excited about it!!
Don't know if you remember me from the video where you listened to the cast recording, maybe you do because you hearted my comment there, but the alternate opening song I suggested you listened to, fall fair suite, is the opening song in this video. Just so you know! Fall Fair Suite is my favorite opening.
I haven't listened to the other openings (apparently there are a couple of other versions?) but I also like this one MUCH better than the album version
@@Barbara2.0 As far as I know, aside from this version and the album version there's one more called "Waiting For The Drop"
29:35 I’M SO MAD YOU CUT OUT “we’re listening to you now space jesus”
His final insight HAD to have been "don't ride the cyclone"
My college is doing this next year and I’m very excited
Sweet! Break a leg :)
ride the cyclone’s one of, if not, my favourite musical(s) ever but ricky’s always bothered me a little. i like the character, don’t get me wrong, but it’s weird that the play portrays him like there’s no reason for him to go back because of his disability, like his life wasn’t worth living in the first place. it might even be the biggest issue the play has because otherwise it’s fantastic but it really irks me.
12:24 I’m currently obsessed with the Percy Jackson musical, using toilet paper instead of water was an interesting option but it works
I love PJO in general, haven't gotten to watch the musical yet, is it on CZcams?
The reason Karnak gave them a chance to com back I because he feels bad that he could've stopped them but didn't.
Ricky is a great character I love him so much.
Two times during Jane doe's ballad the shadows make wings in her sides:)
Seeing her pure elation and zeal brings me joy. It’s nice seeing someone feel what I felt, and go through the same thoughts, it’s lovely.
man i always cry constantly for the last 20 or so mins of the musical i love it so muchhh
I don’t know if anyone pointed this out, you might already know, but the reason the opening was different in the cast recording and the slime tutorial is because they’re actually two completely different songs, Fall Fair Suite and Uranium Suite. There are two other openings, Waiting for the Drop and Tragic Fact that were also used briefly, but by far the longest-running opening was Fall Fair. There’s a lot of debate in the fandom about which of the four is best but Fall Fair always seems to win in any debate.
One of my favorite things is that with every song, so much personality is conveyed in how they move. Like they are all dorky teenagers dancing and showing themselves in the ways they think makes them look ‘cool’.
Am I the only one who thought Jane Doe's shadow made it look like she had angel wings?
"Talia" hits SOOOO different considering recent events... if you know what I mean. There's a very high chance that when Mischa returns to his country... Talia might not be there anymore. Worse, she might be dead.
during Talia, it speeds up to party music at the end because Mischa felt too vulnerable and needed to rage (calling back to his first song), that's why his dance movements were angry and more violent. he uses the autotune party stuff to cope and put up his front after feeling so much love and longing for Talia
I love watching you react to this show. I was so into the show already but it's really cool to watch it through you with all of your analysis. Some of the things you point out about this show are so much more in depth than I realized.
Also I love you getting excited about your birthday being close to Noel's haha. I actually have the same birthday as Penny Lamb at the end!
Thank you so much, lovely!! Makes me happy that you're enjoying the videos 😊 And yes, I get excited very easily hahaha
lol i have the same birthday as Mischa
I know its been a few days but I also HIGHLY suggest the mccarter theatre version too!! most (if not all) the people involved are different and its a slightly different take on some songs! there's a few different versions in the songs too and I think you'd enjoy it!
cool thing i saw about talia (the song, not the actual character). when they start projecting the video of talia on the girls dresses, they mainly put the video on jane. this kinda means that they never really knew if talia was a real person/mischas real girlfriend or not, like how they didnt remember jane being a part of the choir.
The thing is it's kind of fate that Karnak was set to Family Fun Mode since if he hadn't been, and had been able to warn the choir about their deaths, then they wouldn't have ridden The Cyclone and thus wouldn't have died, but then that would have meant that they were never going to die on The Cyclone, creating a paradox where Karnak can only have predicted accurately if he says nothing.
There are 5 diffrent versions of the opening number thats why the cast recording one is different
I also prefer Fall Fair Suite to Uranium Suite. It gives so much more insight and the orchestration is so beautiful
I feel like when Karnak mentions, "The one who wants to win it the most will redeem the loser in order to complete the whole," he's referring to them all accepting their deaths, thus being able to move on peacefully.
Ocean struggled the most, so she most likely was the final piece. I wonder, if she hadn't accepted her fate in the end, would her turmoil had condemned everyone else?
I love this video and your insight it's awesome. Some other shows that I'd love to see you react to. Spongebob musical, urinetown, 25th annual putnam county spelling bee, Drowsy Chaperone, bring it on, kinky boots, wind in the willows 2017.
Thank you, Connor! Glad you enjoyed it 😊 And nice to see most of those suggestions are already on the list, will add the others
YESSS OMGGG you have amazing taste!!!
It's also important to note the difference between wanting a bad relationship and fantasizing about a bad relationship.
Pleaseeeee watch Alice by Heart at some point! It’s from the creators of spring awakening and really is so perfect in many ways, definitely watch the bootleg so it makes more sense 😂 and another suggestion is Bonnie & Clyde, it has Jeremy Jordan at some of his best vocals and is a really fun take on the story of B&C
I'm really excited about Alice by Heart, it's on the list ;)
I love ABH, but it’s definitely a hard one to follow through the soundtrack. I legit had no idea what the plot was about for ages because the bootleg was really rare at the time 😂 definitely think she should react to the bootleg
Hmmmm kinda like the challenge though... hahaha
@@Barbara2.0 …Ok on second thought, I would be curious to see how well you can piece it together. You definitely understood Ride the Cyclone better than I did on my first listen lol
Ride the cyclone slays.
I love the captions !!
I love all the characters
4:31 this part is so minor, but this would've terrified me as a kid. Because when you're a kid, and you're sitting down in the theater, listening to the band practicing before it really starts, you're waiting forever (it feels like), and then the lights go down and you feel the suspense... Then the headless person sings a creepy ass song... THEN A FORTUNE TELLER TELLING THEIR AUDIENCE THIS
I love their interactions (especially with Karnak), because it’s like a family dynamic that is wholesome
ride the cyclone: look we hired a disabled actor to play our disabled character
also ride the cyclone: *fires actor the first time their disability caused any inconvenience*
What are you talking about?
@@MysteriousGirl10 the mccarter theatre production, they hired a disabled actor for ricky at first, only to fire him when their disability was inconvenient to them
@@ludovicadangelo2710 That's messed up.
I looked into it, and this did happen. It's horrible, and we should absolutely be angry, but I want to emphasize that this happened in a regional production, and neither the creators nor the original cast were involved. We should be mad at the staff who worked on that production, and the actor did name names, but I don't think talking about it on a video about the Broadway production is the best idea just because people might be confused and go after people who worked on the Broadway production
@@jamiehood850 Okay. Thanks for clarifying that. I thought it was the Broadway production that did that. Either way, it's still messed up.
Fun fact : the phrase the one who wants to win it the most will be the loser or whatever meant that that shall be the one who will pick who wins!!
A share a birthday with Penny Lamb, exact day and month. Made me sob even more, ha