RAGTIME VERSION 2 at HITS THEATRE

This version of strongRAGTIME/strong, first presented on st1:city w:st="on"London/st1:city's st1:place w:st="on"West End/st1:place, features a smaller orchestration and a revised text/score, so the show can be done with minimal visuals and scenic effects.span style="" /spanThis version is also ideal for concert presentations of the show.span style="" /span(The full, Broadway-sized orchestration is also available for concert presentations.) p/p p class="MsoNormal"Called by span style="font-style: italic;"Time Magazine/span "A triumph for the stage," and by thespan style="font-style: italic;" International Herald Tribune/span "the best musical in twenty years," this acclaimed musical won 1998 Tony Awards for Best Score, Book and Orchestrations, and won both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical and Best Score. /p p class="MsoNormal"strongRAGTIME/strong is not only a powerful portrait of life in turn-of-the-century st1:place w:st="on"st1:country-region w:st="on"America/st1:country-region/st1:place, but a relevant tale for today. Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of a href="http://mtishows.com/biography.asp?writerid=3479"Stephen Flaherty/a and a href="http://mtishows.com/biography.asp?writerid=3399"Lynn Ahrens/a (a href="http://mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000049"strong/strong/aa href="http://mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000150"strong/strong/aa href="http://mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000135"strongONCE ON THIS ISLAND/strong/a,span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="font-weight: bold;" /span/spanstronga href="http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000229"SEUSSICAL/a /strongand a href="http://mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000049"strongLUCKY STIFF/strong/a), noted playwright a href="http://www.mtishows.com/biography.asp?writerid=3487"Terrence McNally/a, (span style="font-weight: bold;"KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN/span, span style="font-weight: