Broadway Rewind: RAGTIME Brings Rhythm & Rhyme to Ellis Island in 2016

As Broadway remains dark, BroadwayWorld wants to make sure that you still get your theatre fix each and every day until it's back. In our daily series Broadway Rewind, we're uncovering footage from the depths of our archives so that you can relive magical moments of Broadway past!

Today we rewind to 2016, for a special concert presentation of Ragtime on Ellis Island. The musical originally opened on Broadway in 1998 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, where it played for 834 performances. With music by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally, 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 2016 concert, directed by Sammi Cannold, featured performances by Brandon Victor Dixon as Coalhouse Walker Jr., Laura Michelle Kelly as Mother, Michael Park as Father, Andy Mientus as Younger Brother, Shaina Taub as Emma Goldman, Aisha Jackson as Sarah, and Robert Petkoff as Tateh.

Watch highlights from the concert below!