![]() Join me on Friday to hear more about this wonderful show (message me for the link or use the one from last week if you were there). I’d already listened to the original cast recording, where I first fell in love with the amazing voices, especially those of Stokes and Audra. I saw this show on a national tour in Chicago in the early 2000s and fell in love with it. A more famous immigrant is magician Harry Houdini, whose life is somewhat tied to Edgar. The Jewish immigrant Tateh and his daughter, Little Girl (note that she doesn’t have a name) as well as the anarchist Emma Goldman. ![]() and his girlfriend, Sarah Brown Booker T. The African-American musician Coalhouse Walker, Jr.Less affluent, but also a face of white privilege is the fictional fire chief Willie Conklin. Thaw and his wife Evelyn Nesbit, as well as her former lover Stanford White, and Admiral Robert Peary. Others affiliated with this group are historical figures such as J.P. The affluent white family, known only as Father, Mother, Grandfather, Younger Brother, and Edgar, the son of Father and Mother (why he has a name and no one else does, I don’t know).There are three primary groups within the show: But it addresses so many issues that still exist today: This musical is set in the early 1900s and is based on the style of music popular during the era, which was known as ragtime. Audra Audra AUDRA McDonald – Sarah Brown.Brian Stokes Mitchell (or as I like to call him, “Stokes”) – Coalhouse Walker, Jr.On Friday, May 8 at 3pm, we’ll be listening to the original cast recording, which features some of my favorite singers: The Tony-winning score is just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself, drawing upon many musical styles, from the ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems.My second favorite musical is Lynn Ahrens’ and Stephen Flaherty’s Ragtime, which premiered on Broadway in 1998. Together, they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together – that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician – united by their courage, compassion and belief in the promise of the future. Called by TIME Magazine "A triumph for the stage," and by the International Herald Tribune "the best musical in twenty years," this acclaimed musical is filled with pageantry, emotion and hope, bursting onto the stage like no other musical.Īt the dawn of a new century, everything is changing. Doctorow's distinguished novel, Ragtime is the winner of the 1998 Tony Awards for Best Score, Book and Orchestrations, and both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical and Best Score. Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens ( Once on This Island, Seussical and Lucky Stiff), noted playwright Terrence McNally, and based on E.L.
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