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October is the Month of Enchantment The Magic Starts on THE RIDE In Masquerade
October 1, 2019 – October 31, 2019
“If you want a quintessential Halloween New York experience without the scare, hop on THE RIDE for their glitzy and spellbinding In Masquerade show this October. You’ll see Manhattan anew while feeling like 16th Century royalty behind your bejeweled mask.” -Josh Ferri, BroadwayBox.com
“Off-Broadway’s four-wheeled hit THE RIDE will show off its Halloween pride throughout the month of October. Guides aboard the one-of-a-kind immersive show will don specially designed lace and jeweled masks as the show’s story is told. Written and directed by award-winning magician Richard Humphrey, THE RIDE is approaching its 27,000th performance in NYC!” – Andy Lefkowitz, Broadway.com
“There are guided tours; and then there is THE RIDE, a guided Tour-de-Force. It employs performers and a bus that is actually a state-of-the-art theater. The result is a theatrical taste of New York while seated rock-arena style and immersed in the sound and spectacle of the City’s streets and THE RIDE’S brilliantly interactive performers. THE RIDE will be in Halloween spirit with its In Masquerade show, from October 1 through October 31. The cast will be wearing medieval, 16th Century lace and bejeweled masks. Enjoy!” –Norman Schreiber, Traveler’s USA Notebook
(New York City – September 2019) Approaching its 27,000 performance, the spectacular, immersive, interactive, experiential phenomenon, THE RIDE will be in bewitching masquerade for this Halloween Season.
The Sixth Annual THE RIDE In Masquerade will play from Tuesday, October 1 through Thursday, October 31.
Written and directed by creative magician Richard Humphrey, CEO/CCO, THE RIDE’s award-winning script will take a bewitching seasonal turn as performers hide behind their lace and bejeweled masks to celebrate all that we love about October in New York.
Enchanting stories, beguiling videos and aristocratic spirits channel the ethereal seduction of a Medieval Halloween.
Starting on Tuesday, October 1, the award-winning cast of THE RIDE will don especially designed lace and jeweled masques of medieval court life to enchant and captivate their audiences on the million-dollar motor coaches and trillion-dollar Manhattan streets.
What began as an elaborate and choreographed night of seduction in the gold-drenched royal courts of 15th Century Europe and steadily moved to the torch-lit public costumed balls of the 16th Century will now be introduced to the 21st Century’s center of the Universe – the streets of Mid-Town Manhattan.
THE RIDE In Masquerade will continue to spellbind for the entire Halloween Season through Thursday, October 31.
For centuries, the masque balls of Europe were considered a special luxury of entertainment.
Their enchantment was irresistible; as is the unique experience of THE RIDE.
It is the greatest show on wheels.
THE AVALANCHE of AWARDS
Just awarded its SEVENTH TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence Award and the RTO Summit’s COOLEST NEW PRODUCT, THE RIDE has also been inducted into THE TripAdvisor® HALL of FAME; an accolade reserved for less than 1% of the worldwide Travel-Related Corporations reviewed by TripAdvisor’s® 60 million members and 140 million visitors. Also honored with a nomination for Broadway’s coveted Drama Desk Award in the prestigious Unique Theatrical Experience Category and named the Third Most Successful Youth-Primed Attraction in New York City by FODOR’S Travel, THE RIDE has most recently been nominated for THE CONCIERGE CHOICE Award in the BEST TOURIST ATTRACTION category. THE RIDE has also been declared one of the Top 8 Must-Attend Wild & Wonderful Spectacles in New York City by NewYork.com who also named THE RIDE’S Gold Star Tour Guide, RORY LIPEDE, as the Most Entertaining Tour Guide in New York. The New York City phenomenon began this year by winning The Culture Trip’s Favorite Award as the Must-Take NYC Tour and being named “the most exciting entertainment experience to ever hit New York City” by VIATOR. All of this homage and accompanying critical acclaim has led to THE RIDE becoming the singularly most requested ticket at Travel Agents’ offices all over the country.
Tickets: $69
Individual Tickets:
ExperienceTheRide.com
1-212-221-0853
Group Tickets:
646-661-7699 x142
RICHARD HUMPHREY
CEO/CCO, The Ride LLC
Author/Director
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Richard Humphrey, the CEO and CCO of The Ride, LLC., has over thirty years experience bridging the performing arts, entertainment and business communities. He has an award winning and proven track record in content creation and as an entrepreneur in developing innovative business plans and sustainable business strategies for the arts and entertainment communities, creating partnerships between the for profit and not-for-profit worlds, lobbying on the federal and state level for the arts and arts education, and in realizing international business collaborations. He has nurtured and presented original work on Broadway and Off-Broadway including as co-producer of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, “Buried Child,” and as a 2013 Drama Desk Nominee for Unique Theatrical Experience for producing and directing THE Fazzino RIDE. His first Broadway triumph was in the cast of Ellis Rabb’s star-studded, award-winning, histrionically-elegant “The Royal Family” which he later directed for the first National Tour. He has, as Executive Producer, built a copyrighted library of over 125 titles including his interviews with some of the world’s greatest artists, performances and art history documentaries. Many of these titles are currently being distributed through Discovery. Richard’s unique vision for uniting the arts, arts education and technology communities has led to frequent requests to keynote at industry conferences including “Connecting All Americans for the 21St Century” hosted by Vice President Al Gore and the Department of Commerce. Previous to THE RIDE, Richard co-founded Arts4All, Ltd./A4AMobile, an entrepreneurial digital company focusing on the intersection of content creation and its distribution via emerging digital technologies, with Hong Kong businessman/entrepreneur Daniel Ng. As CEO of Arts4All, Ltd./A4AMobile and, later, as CEO of Redcloud Mobile, Inc., a partnership with Telcordia Technologies, Richard utilized his fluency in digital media to develop a mobile marketing platform and to introduce innovative campaigns for the arts and national ad agencies with such clients as “Shrek: The Musical,” Bacardi Brands, Grey Goose, Starbucks, U.S. Open and feature films with AlliedIM, to name a few. As a pioneer in mobile applications, he and his colleagues at Redcloud Mobile introduced Broadway to the potential of mobile marketing and became the national mobile media partner for the Tony Awards from 2007 – 2010. Richard has created visionary strategic partnerships for the arts with companies including Telcordia Technologies, AT&T and Lucent Technologies and content provider partnerships with such renowned institutions as Manhattan School of Music, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Interlochen Center for the Arts, London Symphony Orchestra and a wide-variety of the nation’s top performing artists. Via his mastery of videoconferencing, Richard has produced internationally over 100 real-time videoconference arts events and master classes with such notables as the New York City Ballet lead dancer Peter Boal, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, Jose Limon Dance Company, actor Matthew Broderick, and violinist Pinchus Zuckerman, and the late Isaac Stern, to name a few. Richard was the founder of Humphrey Fine Art, Ltd, a flagship gallery in New York’s Soho and Midtown districts from 1986 – 1996. Representing emerging and mid-careers artists, his gallery exhibited in nine countries and at major art fairs in Paris, Madrid, Tokyo and Seoul. He curated the groundbreaking exhibition “Forces: Art for the End of the Century” which represented artists at the end of the twentieth century utilizing non-traditional materials such as light, time, planetary motion and technology. This critically acclaimed exhibition travelled nationally to museums and public venues for two years. Since 1985, Richard’s choice of public service and philanthropy has been his alma mater Bucknell University. He was the President of the Bucknell University Alumni Association and its Board of Directors for two terms (2006-2010) and served as a Board and Executive Committee member for three years prior. He was a two-term President and is now on the Emeritus Board of the Bucknell Association for the Arts and served on its Board for eight years. In 2010, Bucknell presented him with its highest honor for the arts, induction into Bucknell’s prestigious Academy of Artistic Achievement.