Photos: An Original Cast Reunion at Opening Night of Ragtime on Broadway
Original stars Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell, along with Danielle Brooks, Rachel Zegler, and more, welcomed the Ahrens and Flaherty musical back to Broadway October 16.
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October 16 was opening night for the new revival of Ragtime on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater‘s Vivian Beaumont, and the stars came out to welcome the Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty musical back to the Main Stem. Along with stage and screen stars like Danielle Brooks, Rachel Zegler, and Matt Rogers, the evening even featured a surprise Ragtime OG reunion, with Tony-winning original stars Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell in attendance.
See photos from the starry red carpet in the gallery below. Read what critics had to say about the new revival, directed by freshly appointed LCT Artistic Director Lear deBessonet, here.
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Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz lead the cast as Coalhouse Walker, Jr., Mother, and Tateh, respectively, with Colin Donnell (Anything Goes) as Father, Nichelle Lewis (The Wiz) as Sarah, Ben Levi Ross (Dear Evan Hansen) as Mother’s Younger Brother, Shaina Taub (Suffs) as Emma Goldman, John Clay III (New York, New York) as Booker T. Washington, and Rodd Cyrus (The Light in the Piazza) as Harry Houdini, all reprising their performances from the New York City Center run. The Broadway cast also features Anna Grace Barlow as Evelyn Nesbit, Nick Barrington as The Little Boy, and Tabitha Lawing as The Little Girl.
The ensemble features Nicholas Barrón, Lauren Blackman, Allison Blackwell, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Jordan Chin, Billy Cohen, Rheaume Crenshaw, Charity Angél Dawson, Ellie Fishman, Jason Forbach, Ta’Nika Gibson, David Jennings, Kaleb Johnson, Marina Kondo, Morgan Marcell, Kane Emmanuel Miller, Tom Nelis, Kent Overshown, Kayla Pecchioni, John Rapson, Deandre Sevon, Jacob Keith Watson, and Alan Wiggins. Swings and understudies Eean Sherrod Cochran, Kerry Conte, Nick Gaswirth, Jackson Parker Gill, Jenny Mollet, Matthew Scott, and Ellie May Sennett round out the company. Casting is by The Telsey Office‘s Craig Burns.
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The production features choreography by Ellenore Scott, set design by David Korins, costume design by Linda Cho, lighting design by Adam Honoré, sound design by Kai Harada, projection design by 59 Studio, and hair and wig design by Tom Watson. Music director James Moore is conducting a 28-piece orchestra playing the original orchestrations by William David Brohn, and vocal arrangements by Flaherty. Ann James is sensitivity specialist, and Cody Renard Richard serves as production stage manager.
Based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime blends fact and fiction telling the story of New York City at the dawn of the 20th century, with a book by Terrence McNally, music by Flaherty, and lyrics by Ahrens. The story focuses on Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a Black man who buys a Model T Ford and sets off a chain of events that encompass all levels of New York City society, along with magician Harry Houdini, industrialist Henry Ford, celebrity party girl Evelyn Nesbit, civil rights leader Booker T. Washington, architect Stanford White, anarchist Emma Goldman, a Jewish Latvian immigrant who becomes a movie director, and an upper class white family living in suburban New Rochelle.
The LCT staging is being produced in association with Tom Kirdahy, Kevin Ryan, Robert Greenblatt, and Lamar Richardson.
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Photos: Ragtime on Broadway
Photos: Ragtime on Broadway
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Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, and company of Ragtime
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Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz in Ragtime
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John Clay III and company of Ragtime
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Anna Grace Barlow in Ragtime
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Joshua Henry and company of Ragtime
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Nichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry in Ragtime
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Joshua Henry, Ben Levi Ross, and company of Ragtime
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Brandon Uranowitz and Tabitha Lawing in Ragtime
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Nick Barrington, Rodd Cyrus, and company of Ragtime
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Nichelle Lewis in Ragtime
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Brandon Uranowitz in Ragtime
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Nick Barrington and Colin Donnell in Ragtime
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