Ragtime - The Musical (1998 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1998-04-28
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prologue: Ragtime
- Goodbye, My Love
- Journey On - Lynnette Perry, Ensemble
- The Crime of the Century
- What Kind of Woman
- A Shtetl Iz Amereke
- Success
- His Name Is Coalhouse Walker
- Getting' 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
- 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 (reprise)
- The Ragtime Symphonic Suite
Music reviews of Ragtime - The Musical (1998 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Great recording of a terrific show
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a terrific cast album, with most of the show recorded intact. Only some dialogue has been omitted. The cast is exceptional, led by Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald and Marin Mazzie. The score is complex, lovely to listen to, painful in places and on the whole quite beautiful. I was lucky enough to be in a production of the show recently and know how difficult a score this is to sing. Get this if you want to hear one of the best Broadway scores in years sung by one of the best casts in years. It's sort of a shame that Lion King beat this show out as best musical at the Tony awards that year. It was definitely a case of flash over substance.
Description of Ragtime - The Musical (1998 Original Broadway Cast)
The epic sweep of Ragtime is captured in its opening prologue, a nine-minute kaleidoscope of fictional characters mingling with historical figures from the early 20th century as originally captured in E.L. Doctorow's sprawling novel. As the story continues, we meet pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Brian Stokes Mitchell) and his child's mother, Sarah (Audra McDonald), who has been taken in by a respectable family (including Marin Mazzie as Mother). Parallel story lines of the Latvian immigrant Tateh (Peter Friedman), the entertainer Evelyn Nesbit (Lynnette Perry), and even Harry Houdini (Jim Corti) and Emma Goldman (Judy Kaye) eventually mingle and merge. Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Once on This Island) mix marches, cakewalks, and of course ragtime to create a rich, compelling score, including Sarah's song to her baby, "Your Daddy's Son," her soaring duet with Coalhouse, "Wheels of a Dream," Mother's self-revealing "Back to Before," and numerous set pieces, all performed by a perfect cast. Ragtime was nominated for 12 Tony Awards in 1998, with wins for McDonald, original score, book, and orchestration. The CD also includes an eight-minute symphonic suite conducted by Paul Gemignani and a booklet with photos, full lyrics, and a history of how the score was written. Tragic, touching, and ultimately triumphant, Ragtime is an American classic. --David HoriuchiGeneral CDs
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