Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Prologue: Ragtime
2. Goodbye, My Love
3. Journey On
4. Crime of the Century, The
5. What Kind of Woman
6. Shtetl Iz Amereke, A
7. Success
8. His Name Was Coalhouse Walker
9. Gettin' Ready Rag
10. Henry Ford
11. Nothing Like the City
12. Your Daddy's Son
13. Courtship, The
14. New Music
15. Wheels of a Dream
16. Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square, The
17. Gliding
18. Trashing of the Car, The
19. Justice
20. President
21. Till We Reach That Day
DISC 2:
1. Entr'acte
2. Harry Houdini, Master Escapist
3. Coalhouse's Soliloquy
4. Coalhouse Demands
5. What a Game
6. Fire in the City
7. Atlantic City
8. Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc.
9. Our Children
10. Harlem Nightclub
11. Sarah Brown Eyes
12. He Wanted to Say
13. Back to Before
14. Look What You've Done
15. Make Them Hear You
16. Epilogue: Ragtime / Wheels Of A Dream - (reprise)
17. Ragtime Symphonic Suite, The - (bonus track)
| Details | | Producer: | Jay David Saks | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes
Full title: Songs From Ragtime The Musical.
Principal cast: Brian Stokes Mitchell (Coalhouse Walker Jr.); Peter Friedman (Tateh); Marin Mazzie (Mother); Audra McDonald (Sarah); Mark Jacoby (Father); Lynnette Perry (Evelyn Nesbit); Steven Sutcliffe (Mother's Younger Brother); Mary Bond Davis (Sarah's Friend); Jim Corti (Harry Houdini); Michael Fletcher (Henry Ford); Camille Saviola (Emma Goldman); Nicholas Rose (Little Boy); Alan Swann (Admiral Peary); Afton Eddy (Little Girl).
Recorded at Manta Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto, Canada on July 15-17, 1996. Includes liner notes by E.L. Doctorow and Marty Bell.
All lyrics written by Lynn Ahrens. All music written by Stephen Flaherty.
RAGTIME THE MUSICAL was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show.
Principal cast includes: Alex Strange (The Little Boy); Mark Jacoby (Father); Marin Mazzie (Mother); Steven Sutcliffe (Mother's Younger Brother); Conrad McLaren (Grandfather, Foreman); Brian Stokes Mitchell (Coalhouse Walker Jr.); Audra McDonald (Sarah); Tommy Hollis (Booker T. Washington); Peter Friedman (Tateh); Lea Michele (The Little Girl); Jim Corti (Harry Houdini); Anne L. Nathan (Houdini's Mother); Mike O'Carroll (J.P. Morgan, Judge); Larry Daggett (Henry Ford, Town Hall Bureaucrat); Judy Kaye (Emma Goldman); Lynnette Perry (Evelyn Nesbit); Kevin Bogue (Stanford White); Colton Green (Harry K. Thaw, Policeman, Newsboy); Rod Campbell (Admiral Peary); Duane Martin Foster (Matthew Henson, Black Lawyer)
Recorded at the Hit Factory Studio 1, New York, New York on January 26 and February 2, 1998, Manta Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto, Canada in July 1996 and at the Recital Hall of the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada on October 10, 1997. Includes liner notes by Marty Bell.
RAGTIME: THE MUSICAL was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Musical Show Album.
Ragtime-the musical genre-is one of the principal crossroads amongst African-American rhythms, European-American songs and New World sensibility at the turn of the 20th century. As such, it works as a perfect metaphor for this mega-musical that takes on this whole wild and wooly nation. Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, whose prior collaborations include "Once Upon This Island" and "My Favorite Year," have crafted an ambitious, tumultuous, but upbeat American epic based on the E.L. Doctorow bestseller. Taking their cues from Scott Joplin, Stephen Foster, minstrels, vaudeville and of course their Broadway predecessors, Ahrens and Flaherty effortlessly evoke another time while drawing parallels to another, strangely familiar turn of the century place.
High octane performances are turned in by Audra McDonald as the doomed Sarah, Brian Stokes Mitchell as the righteous Coalhouse Walker, Jr. and Mark Jacoby as the everyman, "Father." A chorus of hundreds (actually only about 60 but who's counting?) livens up the elaborate ensemble scenes. Not to be missed are short but sweet time- setting cameo roles of Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, Booker T. Washington, J.P. Morgan and Evelyn Nesbit, the sex symbol at the heart of the first "crime of the century."
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