#2018 rtc

[frankenruth]

If you think that 2018 RTC isn’t iconic then I apologize for the fact that you even have the ability to be that incorrect

apologies for the um. excessive amount of jane pics. i got excited and forgot to screenshot other ones.

[finleyforevermore]

Reasons for liking them:

Waiting for the Drop:

The only opening that actually takes place on the Cyclone!

Makes the audience truly understand how they're all just kids who wanted to ride a roller coaster.

Perfectly walks the line between lighthearted carnival fun and tragedy.

Has probably the scariest (/pos) version of the crash.

Despite being the most separated from the earliest opening, Tragic Fact, it still works in the ascending scale and Jane's operatic notes.

Lots of pretty harmonies!

The Uranium Suite:

Is probably the best opening musically.

Subtly blends material from other openings into it.

Has this dreadful and ominous feeling throughout.

Feels too dark, but at the same time, the darkness is what makes it so good!

ALSO lots of pretty harmonies!

[viccharine]

kholby wardell stronger than me fr if i had to learn that many versions of rtc’s opening number i would have pulled all of my hair out and quit 

[ivorypiano]

GOT M HANDS ON 2018 RTC AUDIO I AM NORMAL AND FINE AND OKAY

LISTENING TO ALT SPACE AGE BACHELOR MAN I PERFECTLY FINE

update/edit: the link doesnt work anymore because the original owner deleted it, but i do have the alt version in a post somewhere

[somepancakeonline5377]

Anyone else notice how the 2018 Talia has random whistles in the rap section?

This sparked a headcanon that Mischa stole that whistle from a teacher and keeps it as a lucky charm and then goes on to use it in Talia cuz that’d be awesome and silly

[ricky-is-too-silly]

QUEENIE, YOURE REALLY QUITE THE LOVER. BEYOND MY FANTASIES, BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻

[dailyoceanoconnellrosenberg]

Day 102: God I love Waiting For The Drop 😌😌

[justarandombrit]

Can we appreciate how hype Karnak is in 2018 Space Age Bachelor Man?

Like, yes, Ricky is the danger.

[undescribed1mage]

Favorite cast actually

[moonmoonthecrabking]

it's quite frankly super unlikely that rtc will make it to broadway?? like could it? sure, never say never, but i think that the general vibe of the show plus it being a fully original story (not even historical!!) means that it probably isn't as marketable. the fandom isn't that big either, we're no hamilton (i say in relief). like if you look at how much popularity heathers got, but see that it never got on broadway, i think that rtc will probably be the same if it reaches that level?? however, it's more likely that it'll get onto the west end (still doubtful but possible!!)

[neodimyum]

Ive seen one too many edits of donatello with noel's lament and i keep forgetting his voice actor isnt kholby

[frankenruth]

2018 RTC understudies. btw.

[finleyforevermore]

Observation I made:

During this part of WftD, the closer the choir is to the front, the more violently they thrash around.

Ricky doesn't really thrash and only raises his crutches.

Mischa and Noel are slightly more intense but it mostly looks like they're reaching for something.

Ocean and Constance have the most intense and violent movements. Ocean's hair flips around and she twists; Constance flails then snaps right back into place

Maybe everyone knows that XD but hey I was the first person to make a post about so there's that! >:D

[kaleidoscopiccc]

hello here’s every rtc characters favorite musical as close to canon as possible [except I actually cite my sources]

ocean - Shakespearean plays [“othello? don’t be jealous! romeo and juliet? teen sex kills! king leer? maybe a mandatory retirement age isn’t such a bad idea…”], wicked if we’re talking strictly musicals [Tiffany tatreau loves wicked and I feel ocean would too], the outsiders if we’re talking strictly musicals AND ignoring the timeline [“the outsiders!” “easy, stay in school, don’t smoke”], if we’re being even more lenient she would also like glee [tiffany once dressed up as Rachel Berry for Halloween and ocean literally is Rachel guys come on]

noel- chicago [a lot of the choreo in Noel’s lament is clearly inspired by Velma Kelly], moulin rouge [its French. come on. also nick martinez is literally in it on Broadway rn], cabaret and rocky horror picture [literally just pure vibes]

mischa- mischa does not like musicals, I’m sorry to break it to you

ricky- cats [in the 2018 promo photos, the one where the choirs all celebrating his birthday, there’s a cats poster in the background]

jane- she is literally 20 minutes old, she doesn’t know what musicals are

constance- mamma mia [“watching my baby brother dance naked to ABBA!!”]

[ivorypiano]

since everyone keeps asking me for it and im not gifting the link anymore heres 2018 space age bachelor man

[this-machine-runs-on-coffee]

So, hello!

Made a playlist on my YouTube account of all the rtc videos of songs I knew, and I think it might be 40+ videos and I put them in order of (I think + except for This Song Is Awesome and Talia, since the 2015 Chicago video I found has them put together) when they were used in productions (I've heard very few so forgive me if I'm wrong) and (as far as I know) their order in the musical (the openings are put in weird ways because I don't really know their order, I'd be more than happy to correct the order they're in if I were to be wrong). I'm putting the links here because I don't feel like sharing my YouTube account with my name lol

Plus funny thing in the 2015 Song Cycle they sang Noel's Lament before Ocean's song, so I'm really unsure as to how to put it, and we'll make it like this: Noel's Lament 2015 Song Cycle, the two Play To Win which barely change from each other, the two What The World Needs which barely change from each other, Noel's Lament from 2015 Chicago (maybe only a word changes from the Song Cycle but it has the added verse compared to the 2016), Noel's Lament Official Audio and then on with the other ones normal order, except that La La Love is going to be next to Talia instead of at the end

Karnak's Dream Of Life [Official Audio]

Ride the Cyclone: Cut/Lost Uranium Suite Variation (Clip)

Uranium Suite / Tragic Fact | From Citadel Theatre, Ride the Cyclone

Tragic Fact (14/02/2015 Song Cycle)

Fall Fair Suite (2015 Chicago)

Fall Fair Suite (I think more around 2016 version? Not sure, but it isn't on the Official Cast Recording, so)

Waiting For The Drop (2018 Seattle)

The Uranium Suite [Official Audio]

The Otherside (Non-Album Track) ("Somewhere sunrise begins another day, begins another day" that one)

Jane Doe's Entrance (14/02/2015 Song Cycle) (basically the 14/02/2015 and 15/02/2015 should be the same unless I'm wrong and I don't know, so [for all the Song Cycle songs I'll only put one version except for the ones I know vary in certain ways between the two days])

Jane Doe's Entrance [Official Audio] (but this video has the lyrics and I have this one ready and not the other one, audio should be the same)

U-R-A-N-I-U-M (2015 Song Cycle)

Noel's Lament (2015 Song Cycle)

Play To Win (2015 Song Cycle, 14/02/2015) (the one that cuts off at the end and is sung differently in maybe a point or two)

Play To Win (2015 Song Cycle, 15/02/2015) (the one that doesn't cut off at the end and is sung differently in maybe on point or two)

What The World Needs (2015 Chicago) (Angry Birds? Candy Crush?)

What The World Needs [Official Audio] (Pokemon, Spiderman)

Meet Noel Gruber [Official Audio]

Noel's Lament (2015 Chicago)

Noel's Lament [Official Audio] (but the video is one of the lyrics ones)

Spooky Jane Fornication (Non-Album Track) ("Fornication Under Consent of the King" that one)

Every Story's Got A Lesson [Official Audio] (yes the one with Karnak talking at the end)

This Song Is Awesome [Official Audio]

This Song Is Awesome (2015 Song Cycle) (I'm not sure of the differences between the various "This Song Is Awesome"s but I'm giving you the ones I find so here)

This Song Is Awesome + Talia (2015 Chicago)

Talia (2015 Song Cycle) (again I don't know the differences but here have this)

Talia [Official Audio]

Small Things Become Big Things (2015 Song Cycle) (Hank and Trishna's love song)

La La Love (2015 Song Cycle) (So many la la, Hank and Astrid's love song)

Space Age Bachelor Man Sting (Non-Album Track)

Meet Ricky Potts [Official Audio]

Space Age Bachelor Man (2015 Song Cycle) (not sure what changes from this one to the next one but hey you get both)

Space Age Bachelor Man (2015 Chicago)

Space Age Bachelor Man (2018 Seattle) (Zolar, you said? What's that? I've heard of Cattaris and its queen though)

Space Age Bachelor Man [Official Audio] (a bit different from the 2015 ones and we have Zolar again like in 2016)

Meet Jane Doe [Official Audio]

The Ballad Of Jane Doe (2015 Song Cycle)

The Ballad Of Jane Doe [Official Audio] (lyrics video though)

The New Birthday Song [Official Audio]

Sugarcloud (2015 Song Cycle) (wow I did not find the Chicago version on YouTube but alright)

A World Inside (which I don't know when it was done, but I heard it was kept in for two days then abandoned. Sugarcloud was there as well in 2016, but A World Inside was made in 2018 and cut soon after, so I'm putting it here before Official Audio Sugarcloud and Jawbreaker because they were kept even after)

Jawbreaker [Official Audio]

Sugarcloud [Official Audio]

Cookies, Cookies And Some Lemonade/Celebration (15/02/2015 Song Cycle)

It's Not A Game/It's Just A Ride (2015 Song Cycle)

Be Safe, Be Good (For Rachel)/It's Not A Ride (a song sang in 2018 as a tribute for the late director Rachel Rockwell because she loved it, or so I heard. You get the song sung by the choir here and in the next one the Official Audio)

Be Safe, Be Good (For Rachel)/It's Not A Ride [Official Audio]

It's Not A Game/It's Just A Ride [Official Audio]

Here are 3 more that are really soundtracks more than sung songs + the Corey Ross tiktok+the 2018 dance battle between Constance and Ricky in SABM:

Karnak's Theme (or how the video's title says, Karkak's Theme) [Official Audio]

Wonderville Jingle (which apparently according to a comment was found by AdoreDevito on Discord on the Ride The Cyclone's Facebook page from 2012)

Jane Doe's music box leitmotif

Kholby Wardell's Corey Ross's song's tiktok

Cut 2018 Space Age Bachelor Man, part of the dance battle between Cataris's queen and the Space Age Bachelor Man

If you want to here's the 2010/2011-2013 channel of RTC

UPDATE (18/08/24): I noticed yesterday when I should've been sleeping that I had inverted the order of La La Love and Small Things Become Big Things chronologically, as Trishna was there before Astrid was. I'm changing it, just letting you know this. But for anyone who has never heard La La Love, it sounds very similar to Talia, which is probably why I put them close to each other in the first place, but I don't remember so I'm not sure. I think the love songs originally were after Corey Ross's rap (not really any videos of it except for a deleted tiktok from Kholby Wardell which has a small verse saying something and describing a little what happens during Corey Ross's rap battle against himself, so pretty much lost media or so I heard), so I would've put it after This Song Is Awesome, had there not been a video that connected both Talia and This Song Is Awesome. Changing that now.

Update number two, 19/08/24: I've just seen this Reddit post now and wow, I knew I wasn't original but we had the same idea, which is great like wow I am impressed. I've genuinely never seen this post before tonight, and you can believe me or not believe me, either way it would be fine, I've done this post for myself to organise my playlist and in case it could help others, had I seen it before, I probably would've done this post earlier, inspired by it, but with probably less songs as my knowledge was more limited a month or two ago. Genuinely (positively) surprised to find that while searching for Talia sheet music in the RTC subreddit lol, won't be adding the "Still here?" And "Welcome..." Songs tho because they aren't really sung or do much. Maybe I'll add them to the additional videos in the end, that will definitely be inspired by that post, since in the end those are part of the RTC song album after all, and probably deserve to be added

Please do notify me if I've forgotten any songs or themes, I'd like to hear them if I have because then I've probably never heard them