RAGTIME SCHOOL EDITION at CEDAR RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL

RAGTIME SCHOOL EDITION has become not only a favorite of schoolsacross the country, but a valuable teaching tool with which educators candiscuss such issues as class and prejudice, social conditions, immigration andthe history of America itself. In this version, vocals are slightly rearrangedfor student voices.

RAGTIME is not only a powerful portrait of life inturn-of-the-century America,but a relevant tale for today. Written by the award-winning composer/lyricistteam of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, SEUSSICAL and LUCKY STIFF), noted playwright Terrence McNally, (KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, MASTER CLASS), and based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, the musicalintertwines the stories of three extraordinary families, as they confronthistory's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice,hope and despair, and what it means to live in America.

Called by Time Magazine "A triumph for the stage,"and by the International Herald Tribune "the best musical in twenty years,"this acc