Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Once on This Island, Seussical and Lucky Stiff), noted playwright Terrence McNally, and based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, Ragtime is the winner of the 1998 Tony Awards for Best Score, Book and Orchestrations, and both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical and Best Score. Called by TIME Magazine "A triumph for the stage," and by the International Herald Tribune "the best musical in twenty years," this acclaimed musical is filled with pageantry, emotion and hope, bursting onto the stage like no other musical.
At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing... and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together – that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician – united by their courage, compassion and belief in the promise of the future. Together, they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair... and what it means to live in America.
Year | Category | |
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1998 | Best Musical | |
2010 | Best Revival of a Musical |
Videos
Curse of the Starving Class
Theatre Raleigh (11/6 - 11/17) | ||
THE PASSION OF MARY CARDWELL DAWSON
A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater, Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts (12/13 - 12/15) | ||
Some Like It Hot
Durham Performing Arts Center (6/17 - 6/22) | ||
Into the Woods
NRCA Squire Theatre (11/8 - 11/16) | ||
TR In Concert: Stephanie J. Block
Theatre Raleigh (12/7 - 12/7) | ||
The Book of Mormon
DPAC (4/8 - 4/13) | ||
Merrily We Roll Along
Burning Coal Theatre Company (4/10 - 4/27) | ||
Back to the Future: The Musical
Durham Performing Arts Center (5/20 - 5/25) | ||
Blithe Spirit
Studio 1 (11/15 - 11/24)
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