XX
Extended Run!!!
April 30,May 1,7,8,14,15,21,22,28&29
8:00 PM Evening Performance
May 1,2,8,9,15,16,22,23,&30
2:00 PM Matinee Performance
@Susan B. Katz Theatre at the River of Grass Arts Park
This epic new musical by the
award-winning composer/lyricist team Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Lucky
Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once On This Island, Seussical) paints a nostalgic and
powerful portrait of life in turn of the century America. Based on E.L.
Doctorow’s distinguished novel, Ragtime The Musical intertwines three distinct
stories that poignantly illustrate history’s timeless contradictions of wealth
and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and love and hate.
Flaherty’s score is just as diverse as the Melting Pot of America that it seeks
to recreate. It draws upon traditional Jewish folk sounds to color the haunting
music of the immigrants, Vaudeville’s outrageous style to capture the spectacle
of Evelyn Nesbit, and Joplin and Jazz to invoke the enlivened spirit of Harlem.
With a book by Terrance McNally (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Master Class), this
1998 Tony award winning show for best score, book, and orchestrations, features
such show stopping songs as “Getting Ready Rag,” “Your Daddy’s Son,” “Wheels of
a Dream,” “Till We Reach That Day,” “Back To Before,” and “Make Them Hear You.”
This momentous musical is sure to inspire actors and audiences alike!
XX
