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PUBLISHED
℗1998
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2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in
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"RCA Victor."
Disc 1. Prologue: Ragtime -- Goodbye my love -- Journey on -- The crime of the century -- What kind of woman -- A shtetl iz Amereke -- Success -- His name was Coalhouse Walker -- Gettin' ready rag -- Henry Ford -- Nothing like the city -- Your daddy's son -- The courtship -- New music -- Wheels of a dream -- The night that Goldman spoke at Union Square -- Gliding -- The trashing of the car -- Justice -- President -- 'Till we reach that day
Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow
Disc 2. Entr'acte -- Harry Houdini, master escapist -- Coalhouse's soliloquy -- Coalhouse demands -- What a game! -- Fire in the city -- Atlantis City -- Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. -- Our children -- Harlem nightclub -- Sarah brown eyes -- He wanted to say -- Back to before -- Look what you've done -- Make them hear you -- Epilogue: Ragtime/Wheels of a dream (reprise) -- Bonus track: The Ragtime symphonic suite / conducted by John Mauceri
Compact discs
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDoland, Alex Strange, Mark Jacoby, Marin Mazzie, Steven Sutcliffe, Conrad McLaren ; musical director/conductor, David Loud
Recorded: Broadway premiere on January 18, 1998 as inaugural production of the new Ford Center for the Performing Arts