TIN PAN ALLEY RAG Featured In The New York Times Arts & Leisure Section

TIN PAN ALLEY RAG was featured in The New York Times Arts & Leisure section on July 5, 2009. The article, titled 'When Scott Met Irving ... or Didn't' is by Mark Blankenship and begins:

"It's one of Mark Saltzman's favorite moments in his play with music, "The Tin Pan Alley Rag," and he won't even take the credit. Near the end of the show, which imagines a meeting between the composers Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin, Joplin responds to a painful memory by playing "Bethena," a ragtime waltz he wrote in 1905. And when he plays, nothing else happens. There are no words, no dances, no set changes. There's just the sound of a classic piece of American music."

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The Tin Pan Alley Rag runs 7/14- Sept. 6, 2009 at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre located at 111 West 46th St (6th & 7th Aves), Ticket Services: 212.719.1300

In The Tin Pan Alley Rag, two of America's greatest composers, Irving Berlin and Scott Joplin, share an evening of fascinating stories and toe-tapping rhythms. The Tin Pan Alley Rag weaves their tales together into one syncopated rhythm, as two great icons discover they have more in common than they ever imagined.

PRICING: $75.00 - $85.00
RUNNING TIME: 2 hours 10 minutes
with one 15 minute intermission

For more info visit www.roundabouttheatre.org/pels/

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