Gay Kids Dept: The uproariously edgy theatre company has returned to Toronto with its latest show, Ride the Cyclone , a darkly comic musical tale about a sextet of small-town teenage choristers whose amusement park ride takes a bad turn at the loop-de-loop and sends them flying off to Eternity, according to The Star. There s Ocean Rosenberg, the bossy alpha female; Constance Blackwood, the chubby sidekick she bullies; Ricky Potts, the piano-playing dweeb who dreams of being a swingin space-age bachelor ; Misha Bachinski, an immigrant whose punishment for stealing sacramental wine is choir practice; prickly Noel Gruber, who dispels the pre-conceived notion that gay kids are fun to be around; and finally, the headless Jane Doe, who joined the choir too recently for anyone to know her real name and if Victoria, B.C. evokes an image of a stodgy provincial town of government workers and affluent senior citizens, where High Tea at the Empress Hotel is a revered tradition, how does one explain Atomic Vaudeville? But as members of St. Cassian s Chamber Choir of Uranium, Sask. hover between this world and the next, they ve determined to put on a show featuring song and dance against a carnival-grounds backdrop. As
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@t jane doe, loop de loop
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