"The Uranium Suite" (Not to be confused with Uranium Suite / Tragic Fact) is the current choir introduction number for "Ride the Cyclone". It begins with the choir singing about their friendly town. Afterwards, Karnak narrates over the choir riding on and dying on the Cyclone roller coaster. Following their deaths, the choir sails through space, spinning round and round. As they awake in limbo, they realize that they never got to fulfill their dreams of escaping Uranium and now they will never leave their town at all.
Uses[]
- Alliance Theatre production (2019 Atlanta)
- World Premiere Cast Recording (2021) and onwards
- 2021 Cast Recording
- McCarter Theatre (2022)
Lyrics[]
URANIUM SUITE | CAST ALBUM (2021)
[OCEAN]
Uranium,
[CHOIR, except RICKY]
Uranium
That's our town, our friendly town!
[OCEAN]
Uranium,
[CHOIR, except RICKY]
Uranium!
That's our town, our highway town
[NOEL]
They sky is almost blue here-
Grain elevators too, here
[CHOIR, except RICKY]
The pride and joy of sweet Saskatchewan
[CONSTANCE]
We came here for the half-life-
And stayed here for our whole life
[CHOIR, except RICKY]
To give the whole wide world plutonium!
[OCEAN]
Uranium,
[CHOIR, except RICKY]
Uranium!
That's our town, our friendly town
Oh no no
We will never leave this town at all...
(la-la-la-la-la)
[KARNAK, Spoken]
In my part in the story
[CHOIR]
(la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)
[KARNAK, Spoken]
I read all the children's fortunes
[CHOIR]
(la-la-la-la-la)
[KARNAK, Spoken]
I felt their hopes, thoughts, dreams
[CHOIR]
(la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)
[KARNAK, Spoken]
Knowing they would board the doomed rollercoaster
[CHOIR]
(la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)
[KARNAK, Spoken]
And could tell them nothing
[CHOIR]
(la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)
(la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)
[KARNAK, Spoken]
I even suggested that they ride the Cyclone
[CHOIR]
(la-la-la-la-la)
[KARNAK, Spoken]
On Monday, September 14th
They would board the Cyclone rollercoaster at 6:17 pm
At 6:19, the same rollercoasters front axle would break
Causing it to derail at the apex of the loop-de-loop
Hurtling the children to their deaths
[CHOIR]
Aah!
And then you're sailing through space
You don't know up from down
And you feel a little strange
From all that spinning 'round-
And everything you loved
And everything you dreamed
And everything you feared
And everything that seemed so-
Oh so terrifying
It's far behind on the ground
Like our far-from-the-city-little-itty-bitty-pretty hometown.
Just a teeny, tiny dot on a wee blue ball
And we've all been spinning
(All been spinning)
Round and round and round
And round and round
Round and round
And round and round and round
And round and round
[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]
Empty streets of empty shops
[MISCHA & NOEL]
(Ura-nium)
[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]
Shuttered rows of mom and pops
[MISCHA & NOEL]
(Ura-nium)
[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]
Bow down to the mega shopping mall
[MISCHA & NOEL]
The smart ones all packed up and went
[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]
(Ura-nium)
[MISCHA & NOEL]
Why stay if you can't pay the rent
[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]
(Ura-nium)
[MISCHA & NOEL]
We will never leave this town at all
[CHOIR]
Drink some brew, join the choir
Build yourself a funeral pyre
Uranium, our dead end dive
We'll never leave this town alive
No we will never-
Leave.
This.
Town.
At.
All!
[KARNAK, Spoken]
Greetings, children
It's time to play
[CHOIR]
Earth is sky and sky is ground
Did we finally leave our town?