Original Cast Recording (1996) ( )

Product Summary Label: Bmg/rca Victor UPC: 00090266316724 Release Date: 4/28/1998 Buy.com Sku: 60155355 Item#: MKDNLS Buy.com Sales Rank: 1288 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Prologue: Ragtime ~ Original Broadway Cast 2. Goodbye, My Love ~ Original Broadway Cast 3. Journey On ~ Original Broadway Cast 4. Crime Of The Century, The ~ Original Broadway Cast 5. What Kind Of Woman ~ Original Broadway Cast 6. Shtetl Iz Amereke, A ~ Original Broadway Cast 7. Success ~ Original Broadway Cast 8. His Name Was Coalhouse Walker ~ Original Broadway Cast 9. Gettin' Ready Rag ~ Original Broadway Cast 10. Henry Ford ~ Original Broadway Cast 11. Nothing Like The City ~ Original Broadway Cast 12. Your Daddy's Son ~ Original Broadway Cast 13. Courtship, The ~ Original Broadway Cast 14. New Music ~ Original Broadway Cast 15. Wheels Of A Dream ~ Original Broadway Cast 16. Night That Goldman Spoke At Union Square, The ~ Original Broadway Cast 17. Gliding ~ Original Broadway Cast 18. Trashing Of The Car, The ~ Original Broadway Cast 19. Justice ~ Original Broadway Cast 20. President ~ Original Broadway Cast 21. Till We Reach That Day ~ Original Broadway Cast Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Entr'acte ~ Original Broadway Cast 2. Harry Houdini, Master Escapist ~ Original Broadway Cast 3. Coalhouse's Soliloquy ~ Original Broadway Cast 4. Coalhouse Demands ~ Original Broadway Cast 5. What A Game ~ Original Broadway Cast 6. Fire In The City ~ Original Broadway Cast 7. Atlantic City ~ Original Broadway Cast 8. Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. ~ Original Broadway Cast 9. Our Children ~ Original Broadway Cast 10. Harlem Nightclub ~ Original Broadway Cast 11. Sarah Brown Eyes ~ Original Broadway Cast 12. He Wanted To Say ~ Original Broadway Cast 13. Back To Before ~ Original Broadway Cast 14. Look What You've Done ~ Original Broadway Cast 15. Make Them Hear You ~ Original Broadway Cast 16. Epilogue: Ragtime / Wheels Of A Dream - (reprise) ~ Original Broadway Cast 17. Ragtime Symphonic Suite, The - (bonus track) ~ Original Broadway Cast   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Full title: Songs From Ragtime The Musical. Principal cast: Brian Stokes Mitchell (Coalhouse Walker Jr.); Peter Friedman (Tateh); Marin Mazzie (Mother); Audra McDonald (Sarah); Mark Jacoby (Father); Lynnette Perry (Evelyn Nesbit); Steven Sutcliffe (Mother's Younger Brother); Mary Bond Davis (Sarah's Friend); Jim Corti (Harry Houdini); Michael Fletcher (Henry Ford); Camille Saviola (Emma Goldman); Nicholas Rose (Little Boy); Alan Swann (Admiral Peary); Afton Eddy (Little Girl). Recorded at Manta Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto, Canada on July 15-17, 1996. Includes liner notes by E.L. Doctorow and Marty Bell. All lyrics written by Lynn Ahrens. All music written by Stephen Flaherty. RAGTIME THE MUSICAL was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show. Principal cast includes: Alex Strange (The Little Boy); Mark Jacoby (Father); Marin Mazzie (Mother); Steven Sutcliffe (Mother's Younger Brother); Conrad McLaren (Grandfather, Foreman); Brian Stokes Mitchell (Coalhouse Walker Jr.); Audra McDonald (Sarah); Tommy Hollis (Booker T. Washington); Peter Friedman (Tateh); Lea Michele (The Little Girl); Jim Corti (Harry Houdini); Anne L. Nathan (Houdini's Mother); Mike O'Carroll (J.P. Morgan, Judge); Larry Daggett (Henry Ford, Town Hall Bureaucrat); Judy Kaye (Emma Goldman); Lynnette Perry (Evelyn Nesbit); Kevin Bogue (Stanford White); Colton Green (Harry K. Thaw, Policeman, Newsboy); Rod Campbell (Admiral Peary); Duane Martin Foster (Matthew Henson, Black Lawyer) Recorded at the Hit Factory Studio 1, New York, New York on January 26 and February 2, 1998, Manta Eastern Sound Studios, Toronto, Canada in July 1996 and at the Recital Hall of the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada on October 10, 1997. Includes liner notes by Marty Bell. RAGTIME: THE MUSICAL was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Musical Show Album. Ragtime-the musical genre-is one of the principal crossroads amongst African-American rhythms, European-American songs and New World sensibility at the turn of the 20th century. As such, it works as a perfect metaphor for this mega-musical that takes on this whole wild and wooly nation. Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, whose prior collaborations include "Once Upon This Island" and "My Favorite Year," have crafted an ambitious, tumultuous, but upbeat American epic based on the E.L. Doctorow bestseller. Taking their cues from Scott Joplin, Stephen Foster, minstrels, vaudeville and of course their Broadway predecessors, Ahrens and Flaherty effortlessly evoke another time while drawing parallels to another, strangely familiar turn of the century place. High octane performances are turned in by Audra McDonald as the doomed Sarah, Brian Stokes Mitchell as the righteous Coalhouse Walker, Jr. and Mark Jacoby as the everyman, "Father." A chorus of hundreds (actually only about 60 but who's counting?) livens up the elaborate ensemble scenes. Not to be missed are short but sweet time- setting cameo roles of Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, Booker T. Washington, J.P. Morgan and Evelyn Nesbit, the sex symbol at the heart of the first "crime of the century." Producer: Jay David Saks Engineer: James P. Nichols   Technical Info Release Date : 04/28/1998 Original Release Date : 1996 Catalog ID : 63167 Label : RCA Victor Records (USA) Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : DDD UPC : 00090266316724    Product Image