By SHARON EBERSON
Confluence Theater of Pittsburgh has announced its seventh show for 2027 to previous subscribers of Pittsburgh Public Theater and Pittsburgh CLO: Coming in fall of next year is the musical Ride the Cyclone. The 2009 dark comedy will play the Greer Cabaret Theater, Downtown, October 20-November 14, 2027.
With a book and songs by Canadians Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, the Halloween-season offering tells the tale of isix members of the St. Cassian High School chamber choir from Uranium City, Saskatchewan, who die in a freak accident when Coney Island’s Cyclone roller-coaster breaks. The teens awake in a carnival purgatory, where a fortune-telling machine offers a prize: The chance for one teenager to be resurrected and returned to life.
The musical had its American premiere at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater in 2015. It is the second installment in Richmond’s Uranium Teen Scream Trilogy, a collection of three theatrical works, one not yet written.
Ride the Cyclone, popular on college campuses. Among its productions is a Point Park University student presentation at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in 2023, as well as at Slippery Rock University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania earlier this year. It also is on the schedule of The Theatre Factory, April 16–18 and April 22–24, 2027, for its inaugural season in New Kensington.
CONFLUENCE THEATER OF PITTSBURGH 2027 PRODUCTIONS
- She Loves Me | February 2–28, 2027, O’Reilly Theater
- Purpose | March 30–April 18, 2027, O’Reilly Theater
- Les Misérables | June 15–27, 2027, Byham Theater
- Cabaret | July 20–August 15, 2027, O’Reilly Theater
- Matt and Ben | August 4–29, 2027, Greer Cabaret
- The Comedy of Errors | September 14–October 10, 2027, O’Reilly Theater
- Ride the Cyclone | October 20-November 14, 2027 | Greer Cabaret
2026-2027 CONFLUENCE TICKETS AND DETAILS: https://confluencetheater.culturaldistrict.org/
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