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The musical tried out in Toronto and Los Angeles , and opened on Broadway on January 18 , 1998 .

It tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker, a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in New Rochelle, NY; and Tateh, a Latvian Jewish immigrant. Historical figures such as Houdini , Evelyn Nesbit , Booker T. Washington , J. P. Morgan , Henry Ford , Stanford White , Harry K. Thaw , Admiral Peary , Matthew Henson , and Emma Goldman also appear. The music includes March es, Cakewalk s, Gospel and Ragtime . The show is mostly sung-through, with most of the story told through song, with very little spoken dialogue.

The show was nominated for 12 Tony Award s in 1998, and won for Best Featured Actress ( Audra McDonald ), Original Score, Book, and Orchestrations ( William David Brohn ).

Despite its limited run of Broadway, Ragtime is considered by many musical theater aficionados to be one of the greatest American musicals ever written.


SONGS



ACT 1

  • "Prologue: Ragtime"

  • "Goodbye, My Love"

  • "Journey On"

  • "The Crime of the Century"

  • "What Kind of Woman"

  • "A Shtetl Iz Amereke"

  • "Success"

  • "His Name Is Coalhouse Walker"

  • "Gettin' Ready Rag"

  • "Henry Ford"

  • "Nothing Like the City"

  • "Your Daddy's Son"

  • "The Courtship"

  • "New Music"

  • "Wheels of a Dream"

  • "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square"

  • "Gliding"

  • "The Trashing of the Car"

  • "Justice"

  • "President"

  • "Till We Reach That Day"



ACT 2

  • "Entr'acte"

  • "Harry Houdini, Master Escapist"

  • "Coalhouse's Soliloquy"

  • "Coalhouse Demands"

  • "What a Game"

  • "Fire in the City"

  • "Atlantic City"

  • "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc."

  • "Our Children"

  • "Harlem Nightclub"

  • "Sarah, Brown Eyes"

  • "He Wanted to Say"

  • "Back to Before"

  • "Look What You've Done"

  • "Make Them Hear You"

  • "Epilogue: Ragtime/Wheels of a Dream"


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