1/15/2023 0 Comments Ragtime original cast![]() ![]() Anthony Crane commands the stage as Tateh, a Latvian immigrant who wants a better life for his daughter. Elizabeth Stanley from Barrington Stage’s and Broadway’s On The Town, and David Harris from TheaterWorks’ Next to Normal and Goodspeed’s Anything Goes, are great in the roles of Mother and Father, family figures of a privileged white family in New Rochelle. Darnell Abraham is a powerhouse as Coalhouse Walker, the Harlem piano man, who seeks freedom and justice for his newborn son with Sarah, sung to perfection by Zurin Villanueva. There are some ravishing performances in this Barrington Stage production. One number, “Wheels of a Dream” is one of the finest ever written by Ahrens and Flaherty. McNally’s book is rich in historical perspective, and the Ahrens and Flaherty score mines the marches, ragtime, cakewalks and gospel of the era. Ragtime is set in and around New York from 1902 and weaves the stories of an upper-class white family in the suburbs, Jewish immigrants arriving through Ellis Island, and early 20th century African-Americans amidst historical figures from the era including Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit and Henry Ford. That production starred Christiane Noll from TheaterWorks’ Next to Normal and Robert Petkoff from the Fun Home tour at The Bushnell last week.ĭarnell Abraham and the ensemble of Ragtime. ![]() The grand and sweeping musical was revived in 2009 in the hands of StageWest alum Marcia Milgrom Dodge. Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Judy Kaye and Lea Michele were alums of the original cast. Ragtime premiered in Toronto, played Los Angeles, and then opened on Broadway in 1998. Doctorow’s panoramic 1975 novel and subsequent film treatment by Milos Forman. Ragtime, with book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty, the trio that created Hartford Stage’s and Broadway’s Anastasia, is based on E.L. Cohen’s musical direction, which takes the musical’s rich score center stage. Anthony Crane, David Harris.in Ragtime.īarrington Stage has opened its Boyd-Quinson Mainstage season with a handsome production of Ragtime, beautifully staged by Joe Calarco with an assist from Shea Sullivan’s choreography and Darren R. ![]() Press contact: DKC/O&M (212/695-7400).Elizabeth Stanley, Frances Evans, J. The original production of Ragtime opened on at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (now the Lyric Theatre) and played for 834 performances. The evening will be Directed by Stafford Arima, with David Loud as Music Supervisor and James Moore as Music Director and Conductor. Doctorow, Ragtime has a score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and a book by Terrence McNally. Based on the classic American novel by E.L. ![]() All proceeds from this one-night only benefit concert will support The Actors Fund. Further casting will be announced and tickets will go on sale at a later date. The Actors Fund has announced that the music of the musical RAGTIME will once again be heard on Broadway in a one-night only benefit concert on Mon April 27, 2020, at the Minskoff (200 West 45th St.) This celebratory benefit concert will star original cast members, with Audra McDonald (“Sarah”) and Brian Stokes Mitchell (“Coalhouse Walker, Jr”) scheduled to appear. This event has been postponded, due to COVID 19 restrictions, to Fall 2020. ![]()
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