Ragtime (1998)

Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Directed by Frank Galati
Cast: Peter Friedman, Mark Jacoby, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jim Corti, Tommy Hollis, Judy Kaye

Narration by J. Morgan, Henry Ford, Booker T. Washington, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, and Evelyn Nesbit connect three families: an upper-class White family from New Rochelle – the Little Boy (Edgar), his Father (who runs a fireworks factory), Mother, Mother's Younger Brother, and Grandfather; a Black couple from Harlem in New York City – Sarah, who adores the pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr.

Theater

Lyric Theatre · Broadway

Closed

January 16, 2000