Uranium Suite

**"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]**

(Uranium)

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

Shuttered rows of mom and pops

**[MISCHA & NOEL]**

(Uranium)

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

Bow down to the mega shopping mall

**[MISCHA & NOEL]**

The smart ones all packed up and went

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

(Uranium)

**[MISCHA & NOEL]**

Why stay if you can't pay the rent

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

(Uranium)

**[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?