Role
Descriptions:
Ride the Cyclone
The Amazing Karnak, any age
An omniscient fortune-telling machine that can accurately predict the time, place and cause of someone's death but is unable to tell them in the human world, possibly due to his 'Family Fun Novelty Mode'. It is said that he knew of the teens' demises prior to the freak accident. Karnak reads each of the characters' lives using their birthdays and full names. This is a non singing role.
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Ocean O'Connell Rosenburg, to play a teenager
Overachiever, straight-A student and choir captain with a superiority complex, Ocean is a self proclaimed social Darwinist, Buddhist, Christian and Jew who believes the other members of the choir will never amount to anything in life​
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Noel Gruber, to play a teenager
The only gay boy in their small conservative town, Noel is obsessed with tragedy and New Wave French cinema and secretly fantasizes of being a sex worker named Monique Gibeau in Post-War France, but instead works a job he hates at the Taco Bell in their local megamall.
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Mischa Bachinski, to play a teenager
A Ukrainian adoptee with a drinking problem who was brought to Canada after his mother (who was dying from uranium poisoning) lied about his age on his birth certificate. His adoptive parents, expecting a toddler and instead getting a fully grown teenager, put him in the basement and left him to his own devices, making him turn to "the last bastion of pure strength and masculinity in society", commercialized, autotuned hip-hop. On his YouTube channel, where he posted his music, he met a fellow Ukrainian named Natalia, who eventually became his full-time online fianceé.​
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Ricky Potts, to play a teenager
Born with an unnamed disease that left him unable to walk or talk, Ricky was ignored by his peers most of his life, causing his overactive imagination to create a fictional cat planet named Zolar, that he, as the character "Space Age Bachelor Man", rescues.
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Jane Doe, to play a teenager
The one unidentified body of the Cyclone Accident was decapitated when the roller coaster derailed and her head was never found, which led to her replacing her missing head with that of a doll, which she then proceeds to carry around the headless doll body. The choir director, having died a couple hours after the accident, was unidentified, buried as a 'Jane Doe'. This caused her to forget her own life during the events of Ride the Cyclone.
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Constance Blackwood, to play a teenager
A seemingly innocent and sweet girl with a secret, dark, self-loathing and dirty side, she reveals she lost her virginity to a ~32-year-old carnie in a porta-potty just hours before the accident. She describes how she secretly began to hate both herself and her family for having pride in their small town after she got to high school and how guilty she felt about it.
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