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.
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Performances at Keefe Center for the Arts
117 Elm Street, Nashua, NH
Edmund Keefe Auditorium
Nov 7-9, 2003
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MUSICAL NUMBERS
ACT I
Prologue
“Ragtime” Company
Scene 1 Dock in NY Harbor/At Sea
“Goodbye, My Love” Mother
“Journey On” Father, Tateh, Mother
Scene 2 A Vaudeville Theatre, NYC
“The Crime of the Century” Evelyn Nesbit, Mother’s Younger Brother, Ensemble
Scene 3 Mother’s Garden, New Rochelle, NY
“What Kind of Woman” Mother
Scene 4 Ellis Island/Lower East Side
“A Shtetl Iz Amereke” Tateh, The Little Girl, Immigrants
“Success” Tateh, J.P. Morgan, Harry Houdini, Ensemble
Scene 5 The Tempo Club/Harlem/Ford’s Assembly Line
“Getting’ Ready Rag” Coalhouse, Harlem Ensemble
“Henry Ford” Henry Ford, Coalhouse, Ensemble
Scene 6 Railroad Station, New Rochelle
“Nothing like the Coty” Tateh, Mother, The Little Boy, The Little Girl
Scene 7 Emerald Isle Firehouse
Scene 8 Mother’s House, New Rochelle
“Your Daddy’s Son” Sarah
“New Music” Father, Mother, Younger Brother, Coalhouse, Sarah, Ensemble
Scene 9 A Hillside Above New Rochelle
“Wheels of a Dream” Coalhouse, Sarah
Scene 10 A Union Hall in NYC/Lawrence, Massachusetts/A train
“The Night that Goldman Spoke at Union Square” Younger Brother, Emma Goldman, Ensemble
“Lawrence, Massachusetts” Ensemble
“Gliding” Tateh
Scene 11 New Rochelle and NYC
“Justice” Coalhouse, Ensemble
“President” Sarah
“Til We Reach that Day” Sarah’s Friend, Coalhouse, Emma Goldman, Younger Brother, Mother, Tateh, Ensemble
ACT II
Scene 1 The Streets of New Rochelle
“Coalhouse Soliloquy” Coalhouse
“Coalhouse’s Demands” Company
Scene 2 The Polo Grounds
“What a Game” Father, The Little Boy, Ensemble
Scene 3 The Streets of New Rochelle
Scene 4 Mother’s House
“Atlantic City” Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini
“New Music” (Reprise) Father
Scene 5 Atlantic City/Million Dollar Pier/Boardwalk
“Atlantic City, Part II” Ensemble
“The Crime of the Century/Harry Houdini, Master Escapist” (Reprise) Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini
“Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc.” Baron Ashkenazy
“Our Children” Mother, Baron Ashkenazy
Scene 6 Harlem/Coalhouse’s Hideout
“Sarah’s Brown Eyes” Coalhouse, Sarah
Scene 7 The Beach, Atlantic City
“Back to Before” Mother
Scene 8 The Morgan Library, NYC
“Look What You’ve Done” Booker T. Washington, Coalhouse, Coalhouse’s Men
“Make Them Hear You” Coalhouse
Epilogue
“Ragtime/Wheels of a Dream” (Reprise) Company
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Book by Terrence McNally
Based on the best-selling novel “Ragtime” by E. L. Doctorow
RAGTIME is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized
performance materials are supplied by Music Theatre International, 421 West 54th St., New York NY
