This revival of Ragtime is a first for Will and I. It’s the first time we’ve seen a Broadway revival of a show that we also saw the original Broadway cast. Ragtime originally played the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (now known as the Hilton Theatre) from December 26, 1997 to January 16, 2000. [...]
30Dec09
Ragtime
One of our holiday traditions is seeing a show or two. One of the hot tickets in town right now is the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Catherine Zeta-Jones is making her Broadway debut and Angela Landsbury is back on stage after last season’s Tony winning turn in Blithe Spirit. We’ll see [...]
Ragtime is coming back to Broadway and I am psyched. This 1998 show deserved a lot more acclaim than it got back in the 1998-99 season. For the Tony Awards it was up against The Lion King. The lack of major Tony love, along with the collapse of its production house and the show’s sprawling, [...]
25Jul08
Friday Geek Out: Ragtime
Ragtime began it’s Broadway run December 26, 1997 at the brand new Ford Center for the Performing Arts on 42nd Street. Ragtime, along with its neighbor across the street (a little show called The Lion King that opened at the newly refurbished New Amsterdam Theater a couple months earlier), helped turn 42nd Street into a [...]
