Click the link for an absolutely GOATED Savannah Potts portrayal (and slime)!
(Disclaimer: The video does not belong to me, but rather its rightful owner.)
Some propaganda for it!
1- A transfem POC plays Ricky (Alley Carmine Rose Correa)!
Trans POC, in general just play awesome Rickies (as someone who saw two different trans POC play Ricky live, one Mexican-American and transmasc nonbinary, and the other one a black trans man), especially Yannick Mirko. Karnak refers to her as "The Most Imaginative Girl in Town" (although she still calls herself a "Space Age Bachelor Man", in the song) and post-SABM, she switches from the male uniform to the female uniform.
We hardly see transfem actresses in Ride the Cyclone, but Alley just SHINES as Ricky!
2- While this production does use the new script, it adds extra details to Ricky's portrayal to add some extra nuance to her.
For one, in addition to playing the tambourine during "Uranium Suite", she also signs throughout the whole number. Secondly, Ricky's backstory specifies that she is CODA, with her preacher father being deaf, hence the sign language once she goes mute. Third, much like the classic script, she concedes post-SABM, and even says the infamous "Don't be a dick" line!
Honestly, more Ricky portrayals should use signing, in general, old or new script!
