Ragtime
Ford Center for the Performing Arts
Previews Began: December 26, 1997
Opening Night: January 18, 1998
Closing Night: January 16, 2000
Music: Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Book: Terrence McNally
Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, this timeless musical masterpiece celebrates the soaring sounds and hopeful spirit of America at the dawn of the last century. To the syncopated rhythms of a hopeful new age, this unforgettable theatrical tapestry interweaves the delights of vaudeville, baseball, and nickelodeon with the hurly-burly of labor rallies and racial unrest, tracing the lives of an enterprising Jewish immigrant, a courageous Harlem pianist, and a conflicted upper-class wife in a jubilant, inclusive tribute to the American Dream.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
ACT ONE
Ragtime…………………………………………..Company
Goodbye, My Love………………………………….Mother
Journey On………………………..Father, Tateh, Mother
The Crime of the Century…………………Evelyn Nesbit,
Mother’s Younger Brother,
Ensemble
What Kind of Woman……………………………..Mother
A Shtetl Iz Amereke………………..Tateh, The Little Girl,
Immigrants
Success……………..Tateh, J. P. Morgan, Harry Houdini,
Ensemble
Gettin’ Ready Rag……..Coalhouse Walker Jr., Ensemble
Henry Ford…………..Henry Ford, Coalhouse Walker Jr.,
Ensemble
Nothing Like the City……Tateh, Mother, The Little Boy,
The Little Girl
Your Daddy’s Son…………………………………….Sarah
New Music…………………………………Father, Mother,
Mother’s Younger Brother,
Coalhouse Walker Jr.,
Sarah, Ensemble
Wheels of a Dream………..Coalhouse Walker Jr., Sarah
The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union
Square……Mother’s Younger Brother, Emma Goldman,
Ensemble
Lawrence, Massachusetts………………………Ensemble
Gliding…………………………………………………Tateh
Justice………………….Coalhouse Walker Jr., Ensemble
President……………………………………………..Sarah
Till We Reach That Day……………………Sarah’s Friend,
Coalhouse Walker Jr.,
Emma Goldman,
Mother’s Younger Brother,
Mother, Tateh, Ensemble
ACT TWO
Harry Houdini, Master Escapist………….The Little Boy,
Harry Houdini
Coalhouse’s Soliloquy……………..Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Coalhouse Demands……………………………..Company
What A Game!………..Father, The Little Boy, Ensemble
Atlantic City………………Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini
New Music (Reprise)………………………………..Father
Atlantic City, Part II……………………………..Ensemble
The Crime of the Century (Reprise)…….Evelyn Nesbit,
Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini, Master Escapist
(Reprise)…………………..Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini
Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc…………Baron Ashkenazy
Our Children………………….Mother, Baron Ashkenazy
Sarah Brown Eyes………….Coalhouse Walker Jr., Sarah
He Wanted to Say……………………….Emma Goldman,
Mother’s Younger Brother,
Coalhouse Walker Jr.,
Coalhouse’s Men
Back to Before……………………………………..Mother
Look What You’ve Done………..Booker T. Washington,
Coalhouse Walker Jr.,
Coalhouse’s Men
Make Them Hear You……………..Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Ragtime (Reprise)………………………………..Company
Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)…………………..Company
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Peter Friedman Tateh
Mark Jacoby Father
Marin Mazzie Mother
Audra McDonald Sarah
Brian Stokes Mitchell Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Jim Corti Harry Houdini
Tommy Hollis Booker T. Washington
Judy Kaye Emma Goldman
Lynnette Perry Evelyn Nesbit
Steven Sutcliffe Mother’s Younger Brother
Shaun Amyot Ensemble
Darlene Bel Grayson Ensemble
Kevin Bogue Stanford White
Ensemble
Sondra M. Bonitto Ensemble
Rod Campbell Admiral Peary
Reporter
Ensemble
Jamie Chandler-Torns Ensemble
Larry Daggett Henry Ford
Policeman
Town Hall Bureaucrat
Ralph Deaton Ensemble
Rodrick Dixon Ensemble
Bernard Dotson Ensemble
Donna Dunmire Ensemble
Adam Dyer Ensemble
Duane Martin Foster Matthew Henson
Black Lawyer
Gang Member
Ensemble
Patty Goble Ensemble
Colton Green Harry K. Thaw
Policeman
Ensemble
Elisa Heinsohn Ensemble
Anne Kanengeiser Kathleen
2nd Bureaucrat
Welfare Official
Ensemble
Jeffrey Kuhn Reporter
Fireman
Clerk
Ensemble
Keith LaMelle Thomas Pas de Deux
Ensemble
Joe Langworth Ensemble
Joe Locarro Conductor
Ensemble
Conrad McLaren Grandfather
Foreman
Lea Michele The Little Girl
David Mucci Willie Conklin
Anne L. Nathan Brigit
Baron’s Assistant
Ensemble
Panchali Null Ensemble
Mike O’Carroll J. P. Morgan
Judge
Mimi Quillin Ensemble
Michael Redd Little Coalhouse
(Alternate)
Monica L. Richards Pas de Deux
Ensemble
Shane Rogers Little Coalhouse
(Alternate)
Orgena Rose Ensemble
Gordon Stanley Trolley Conductor
Reporter
Charles S. Whitman
Ensemble
Alex Strange The Little Boy
Angela Teek Ensemble
Vanessa Townsell-Crisp Sarah’s Friend
Allyson Tucker Ensemble
Leon Williams Ensemble
Bruce Winant Doctor
Dirty Old Man
White Lawyer
Ensemble
Swings: Karen Andrew, John D. Baker, Mark Cassius, Albert Christmas, Dioni Michelle Collins, Mary Sharon Dziedzic, Valerie Hawkins, Kennl Hobson, Todd Thurston
Understudies: Pierce Cravens (The Little Boy), Nicole Dos Santos (The Little Girl)
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