Book by Terrence McNally
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Based on the novel RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
In a striking, bold and ambitious new production, triple Olivier Award-winner Timothy Sheader (Best Musical Revival 2010, 2011, 2012) adds a contemporary twist to this powerful musical.
As the strains of ragtime music are heard on an old record player, a father tells his son a story; a story of hope set at the turn of the 20th century; of a Harlem pianist, a white middle-class family and a Latvian immigrant, whose dreams of a better world shape their destiny.
‘Visually imposing’ (Evening Standard) and ‘staged with brilliance’ (Guardian).
Performed by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED on behalf of MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL of New York.
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“three-time Olivier winner Timothy Sheader has raised the artistic bar... Ragtime is the most ambitious production yet” “an impressive spectacle”
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“Sheader’s coup is to combine the period setting with a prologue set in a junkyard in present day America... the working crane dominates Jon Bausor’s striking design”
Evening Standard
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Creative team
- Director – Timothy Sheader
- Set Designer – Jon Bausor
- Costume Designer – Laura Hopkins
- Choreographer – Javier de Frutos
- Musical Director – Nigel Lilley
- Lighting Designer – James Farncombe
- Orchestrator – Chris Walker
- Sound Designer – Nick Lidster for Autograph
- Associate Director - Voice and Text – Barbara Houseman
- Casting Director – Natalie Gallacher for Pippa Ailion Casting
- Fight Director – Kate Waters
- Assistant Director – Fiona Dunn
- Assistant Designer – Ellen Stewart
- Assistant Choreographer – Nuno Silva
- Assistant Musical Director – Marcus Tilt
- Associate Lighting Designer – Jack Williams
The cast
- Ensemble – Jamal Andreas
- Harry Houdini – Stephane Anelli
- Little Boy – Fin Banks
- Coalhouse Walker – Rolan Bell
- Father – David Birrell
- Ensemble – Louise Bowden
- Evelyn Nesbit – Katie Brayben
- Little Girl – Lily Burgering
- Emma Goldman – Tamsin Carroll
- J. P. Morgan – Anthony Clegg
- Mother – Rosalie Craig
- Little Boy – Rory Fraser
- Ensemble – Hayley Gallivan
- Ensemble – Shimi Goodman
- Little Boy – Ewan Harris
- Little Girl – Lila Heller
- Younger Brother – Harry Hepple
- Ensemble – Waylon Jacobs
- Ensemble – Kurt Kansley
- Sarah – Claudia Kariuki
- Willie Conklin – Joshua Lacey
- Ensemble – Mireia Mambo-Bokele
- Tateh – John Marquez
- Ensemble – Sandra Marvin
- Booker T. Washington – Sophia Nomvete
- Little Girl – Oriana Pooles
- Ensemble – Corinna Powlesland
- Ensemble – Caroline Rovina
- Henry Ford – Carl Sanderson
- Grandfather – Jo Servi
- Ensemble – Lucy St Louis
- Ensemble – Tom Woods
