Kelli O'Hara was set to step into the role of Mother, originated by Mazzie.Īdapted from E.L. The concert was slated to feature a slew of original cast members, including Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Mark Jacoby, Steven Sutcliffe, Judy Kaye, Lynette Perry and Jim Corti. The one-night event, dedicated to the memory of original cast member Marin Mazzie, was announced for April 27 at the Minskoff Theatre, but has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. PST Los Angeles time.)įor those listening in via the Internet on 96.5 Inner FM’s website the webpage link for the Inner FM Web Radio player is or go to the Inner FM homepage at and follow the links from “Listen Live” on the top menu.The star-packed Actors Fund benefit concert of the 1998 musical Ragtime has been postponed to the fall. The broadcast will go “to air” between 9 – 11 p.m. The programme will feature ab introduction by New York-based theatre critic and Internet columnist Peter Filichia. Morgan and Henry Ford are represented in the stories. Historical figures including Harry Houdini, J. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in the United States in the early 20th century: African Americans, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician upper-class suburbanites, represented by Mother, the matriarch of a white upper-class family in New Rochelle, New York and Eastern European immigrants, represented by Tateh, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia.
According to The New York Times, “The chief competition for The Lion King was Ragtime, a lavish musical.” The New York Times also noted that “The season was an artistic success as well, creating one of the most competitive Tony contests in years, with a battle in almost every category capped by the titanic struggle for the best musical award between Ragtime with 13 nominations and The Lion King with 11.” The Broadway production was not financially successful, and some Broadway insiders consider its lavish production to have been the financial “undoing” of Livent.īased on the 1975 novel by E. The musical won awards for Best Featured Actress (McDonald), Original Score, Book, and Orchestrations. Ben Brantley’s review in was headlined “A diorama with nostalgia rampant.” It led the 1998 Tony Awards with thirteen Tony Award nominations, but Disney’s The Lion King won as Best Musical. The production received mixed reviews, with critics noting that the dazzling physical production (with a $10 million budget, including fireworks and a working Model T automobile) overshadowed problems in the script. The original cast included Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Peter Friedman and Audra McDonald, who were all nominated for Tony Awards. Directed by Frank Galati and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, Ragtime closed on Januafter 834 performances and 27 previews. The musical opened on Broadway on Januas the first production in the newly opened Ford Center for the Performing Arts. The US premiere was at the Shubert Theatre, Los Angeles in June 1997. The musical had its world premiere in Toronto, where it opened at the Ford Centre for the Performing Arts (later renamed the Toronto Centre for the Arts) on December 8, 1996, produced by Canadian impresario Garth Drabinsky and his Livent Inc., the Toronto-production company he headed.
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