Ragtime is a musical with good bones. After making its Broadway debut in 1998, the play about turn-of-the-century America (as instructed by means of the eyes of three totally different teams) received 4 Tony Awards: finest efficiency by a featured actress in a musical for then-budding legend Audra McDonald; finest e book of a musical for Terrence McNally; finest orchestrations for William David Brohn; and finest authentic rating for Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens.
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Flaherty’s music and Ahrens’ phrases are discovering new life on Broadway as of late due to the Lincoln Heart Theater’s present revival of Ragtime, directed by Lear deBessonet. The revival is incomes rave notices and massive gross sales, even setting a brand new file for highest weekly grosses in Lincoln Heart Theater historical past. Billboard has an unique behind-the-scenes have a look at the forged recording of one of many musical’s strongest songs, “Wheels of a Dream.”
Within the under clip, you’ll be able to watch three-time Tony nominee Joshua Henry within the vocal sales space as he works himself as much as a hovering, sonorous duet with Nichelle Lewis, the Broadway newcomer who turned heads along with her starring function in The Wiz in 2023. (McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell sang “Wheels of a Dream” on the unique ’98 Broadway forged recording.) The video additionally presents a peek on the 28-piece orchestra, deftly performed by James Moore, that performs on the brand new Ragtime forged album.
The 2025 Broadway forged recording of Ragtime comes out digitally on Friday (Jan. 9) with bodily releases dropping Feb. 6 (on CD) and April 3 (on vinyl). Pre-orders for the bodily releases can be found right here.
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