![]() Details Only 1 left in stock - order soon. Some early piano rags are entitled marches, and 'jig' and 'rag' were used interchangeably in the mid-1890s. At Charing Cross theatre, London, until 10 December. Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie - Ragtime - The Musical (1998 Original Broadway Cast) - Music CDs & Vinyl Jazz Traditional Jazz & Ragtime Ragtime Buy new: 17.9517.95 4.58 delivery October 14 - 19. A distinctly American musical style, ragtime may be considered a synthesis of African syncopation and European classical music, especially the marches made popular by John Philip Sousa.Southerland and his cast can’t rescue it from itself, but you have to admire them for giving the impression that they’ll die trying. Ragtime is a musical to inspire social changeand it teaches us that change starts when we bridge racial divides. In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Brodview Avenue Hill in. Ragtime The Musical is an expansive musical portrait of early-twentieth-century America that tells the story of three families in pursuit of the American Dream. Real figures from history, including Henry Ford, anarchist Emma Goldman and the illusionist Harry Houdini, keep popping up but to no particular purpose except to prolong proceedings, and it’s almost the interval before McNally and co stop bombarding us with rousing ballads and get down to some actual storytelling.ĭirector Thom Southerland has a hard-won and deserved reputation for spinning tarnished Broadway musicals into gold, and he and his vast, fine-voiced cast, including some excellent actor-musicians, work hard to make a case for this one, which flopped on its UK premiere in 2003, when its first night coincided with the US invasion of Iraq.īut it is clear that it wasn’t just bad timing that did for it: this overly earnest celebration of the making of modern America often looks and sounds hopelessly naive and shamelessly manipulative. ![]()
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