Flaherty: Ragtime - The Musical
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STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Flaherty: Ragtime - The Musical
Brian Stokes Mitchell & Audra McDonald / Original Cast Recording
[ RCA Victor / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 19 April 1998
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Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow.
Set in the early 20th century, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in the United States: African Americans, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; upper-class suburbanites, represented by Mother, the matriarch of a white upper-class family in New Rochelle, New York; and Eastern European immigrants, represented by Tateh, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia. The show also incorporates historical figures such as Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White, Harry Kendall Thaw, Admiral Peary, Matthew Henson, and Emma Goldman.
Tracks:
Act I
Prologue: "Ragtime" - Company
"Goodbye, My Love" - Mother
"Journey On" - Father, Tateh, and Mother
"The Crime of the Century" ‡ - Evelyn Nesbit, Younger Brother, Judge, Foreman, and Ensemble
"What Kind of Woman" - Mother
"A Shtetl iz Amereke" - Ensemble
"Success" - Tateh, J.P. Morgan, Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman, and Ensemble
"His Name Was Coalhouse Walker" - Coalhouse and Harlem Ensemble
"Gettin' Ready Rag" - Coalhouse and Harlem Ensemble
"Henry Ford" ‡ - Henry Ford, Coalhouse, and Ensemble
"Nothing Like the City" - Mother, Edgar, Tateh, and Little Girl
"Your Daddy's Son" - Sarah
"The Courtship" - Coalhouse, Mother, and Company
"New Music" - Father, Mother, Younger Brother, Coalhouse, Sarah, and Company
"Wheels of a Dream" - Coalhouse and Sarah
"The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square" ‡ - Younger Brother, Emma Goldman, and Ensemble
"Gliding" - Tateh
"The Trashing of the Car" - Will, Booker T. Washington, Firefighters, and Orchestra
"Justice" ‡ - Coalhouse and Company
"President"‡ - Sarah
"Till We Reach That Day" - Sarah's Friend, Coalhouse, Emma Goldman, Mother, Younger Brother, Tateh, and Company
Act II
Entr'acte - Orchestra
"Harry Houdini, Master Escapist" ≠ - Harry Houdini and Edgar
"Coalhouse's Soliloquy" - Coalhouse
"Coalhouse Demands"‡ - Coalhouse, Booker T. Washington, Will Conklin, and Ensemble
"What a Game" - Father, Edgar, and Men
"Fire in the City" - Booker T. Washington and Orchestra
"New Music (Reprise)" - Father
"Atlantic City" ‡ - Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini, Father, Mother, and Company
"Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc." - Tateh
"Our Children" - Mother and Tateh
"Harlem Nightclub" - Orchestra
"Sarah Brown Eyes" - Coalhouse and Sarah
"He Wanted to Say" ‡ - Younger Brother, Emma Goldman, Coalhouse, and Men
"Back to Before" - Mother
"Look What You've Done" - Booker T. Washington, Coalhouse, and Company
"Make Them Hear You" - Coalhouse
Epilogue: "Ragtime" / "Wheels of a Dream" (reprise) - Coalhouse, Sarah, and Company
BONUS TRACK:
The Ragtime Symphonic Suite
