The Gallery Players presents RAGTIME
By: A.A. Cristi Apr. 03, 2017
Gallery Players announces the final show of its 50th season with the critically acclaimed and timely, Ragtime. At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing...and anything is possible. Ragtime comes to Brooklyn, a show which Bloomberg News has hailed as "explosive, thrilling and nothing short of a masterpiece.
Ragtime features a book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and is based on E.L. Doctorow's best-selling 1975 novel. Ragtime premiered in Toronto in 1996 before moving to a year long run in Los Angeles. On Broadway, where it played for two years, it was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards, winning for Best Featured Actress, Best Original Score, Best Book, and Best Orchestrations. It also received thirteen Drama Desk nominations, winning for Outstanding Musical, Book, Music, Lyrics, and Orchestrations. It had a brief revival in 2009, which earned it six Tony Award nominations and seven Drama Desk nominations.
Ragtime is based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, it tells the story of three groups in the United States in the early 20th century: 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. Ragtime is a powerful portrait of life in turn-of-the-century life confronting exploring America's timeless contradictions of freedom and prejudice, wealth and poverty, hope and despair. These stories still resonate today in our current socioeconomic and political realities.Ragtime opens Saturday, April 22nd, and runs for 16 performances through Sunday, May 14th, 2017 at 8 PM. Performances will be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 3:00 PM, and the second and third Saturdays at 2:00 PM.
Tickets are $25 for Adults and $20 for senior citizens, students, and children 12 and under. Tickets can be purchased 24/7 online at www.galleryplayers.com or by calling OvationTix at 212-352-3101 (phone hours 9-9 weekdays, 10-6 weekends). Ragtime is an approved Actors Equity Association showcase.
Bringing Ragtime to the Gallery stage is Producer, Jonathan King; Director, Mark Harborth; Music Director, Leslie Wickham; Choreographer, Ryan Hendricks; Set Designer, Collin Eastwood; Lighting Designer, Scott Cally; Costume Designer, Jerry Mittelhauser and Carol Strandburg; Video Designer, Heather Crocker; Properties Designer, Roxanne Goodby; Fight Director, Joseph Travers; Production Stage Manager, Liza Penney; and Gallery's largest ensemble ever featuring Kevin Bain*, Elyse Beyer*, Alex Bird, Jay Braver, Caroline Brazelton, Dylan Brod, Ben Carlson, Geoff Chang, Doug Chitel*, Joshua Davis, Christine de Frece, Marcus Jordan, Michael Gioia, Aaron Gooden, Hermione Heckrich, Gareth Hogan, Andrew Horton, Melvinna Rose Johnson, Malcolm King, Heather Koren*, Kayla Leacock, Jameelah Leaundra, Robin Lister*, Danny Mullanaphy, Jonah Mussolino, Mark Parello Jr., Justin Phillips, Robert Poole, David Rogue, Michael Salerno, Nicole Schalmo, Annie Sherman, Renee Steadman, Anastasia Teel, Stephanie Thiessen, Alana S. Thomas, Jennifer Walder, and James Zannelli*. (*courtesy of Actors' Equity Association).
ABOUT THE GALLERY PLAYERS
A New York institution since 1967, this is Gallery's 50th Anniversary Season, which is typically comprised of three plays and three musicals from both the classic and contemporary repertoire. The season finale is the annual Black Box New Play Festival, which workshops and presents world premier productions of works by emerging playwrights. Gallery has received the Off-Off Broadway Review's 2000 Award for Lifetime Achievement, as well as Innovative Theater (IT) awards for outstanding musical for Urinetown, Yank, and Like You Like It, and has earned the reputation of "New York's Best Kept Secret."
The Gallery Players is located at 199 14th Street, between 4th and 5th Avenues, in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Take the F Train to 4th Avenue or the R Train to 9th Street. By car: the BQE to Hamilton Avenue, to 14th Street. Website: http://galleryplayers.com.
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