Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
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#2Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:16am
And it seems to finally be set.
Get your Tony speeches ready Joshua and Brandon. I didn’t love everything about the NYCC production but they were terrific.
#3Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:20am
Again, full orchestrations and production value, not another concert staging. LCT is betting big here.
Full Encores cast is set to transfer, though it should also be noted that Joy Woods — who was originally announced to play Sarah — will be free by the time this starts rehearsals.
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
#4Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:25am
YES!!
I wouldn't mind if Levy got replaced.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#5Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:28am
ACL2006 said: "YES!!
I wouldn't mind if Levy got replaced."
Agree 100% - she is totally wrong for the role.
#6Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:32am
And there were 95 years to go, wheeeee!
#7Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:38am
Is Ragtime one of those shows, like Follies, that is loved and revived but simply doesn't turn a profit due to expense?
#8Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:39am
I wonder if Betsy Wolfe is banging on some doors this morning.
#9Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:40am
EDSOSLO858 said: "Again, full orchestrations and production value, not another concert staging. LCT is betting big here.
Full Encores cast is set to transfer, though it should also be notedthat Joy Woods — who was originally announced to play Sarah — will be free by the time this starts rehearsals.
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How do you know Joy Woods will be free? I thought all 4 leads signed a one year contract.
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#10Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:42am
HOLY SH*T!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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#11Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:54am
Busy late summer for Shaina Taub, who’ll be doing this as SUFFS prepares to launch its tour and DEVIL WEARS PRADA more than likely gears up for Broadway.
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
#12Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:57am
I haven't seen Ragtime since the 1998 Chicago sit-down production. Would love to see a lush/large revival in a space like the Beaumont!
#13Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 11:57am
EDSOSLO858 said: "DEVIL WEARS PRADA more than likely gears up for Broadway."
LOL
Re: Ragtime; I hope this can sustain a run through the tony awards. Beginning in the fall kind of worries me it won’t be able to or LCT has different programming set for the spring.
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#14Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:02pm
joevitus said: "Is Ragtime one of those shows, like Follies, thatis loved and revived but simply doesn't turn a profitdue to expense?"
I definitely think that is a big part of the equation, especially in the original productions.. I also suspect that it is just too 'intelligent', as was Follies (and a lot more of Sondheim) to attract huge audiences for extended periods of time, which is probably the only way for a full-scale Follies to break even.
#15Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:15pm
I still feel awkward and scarred that the last revival, which was all the rave on this forum at the time trust me, was a massive, massive immediate and unrecoverable disaster in 2010. It will certainly be interesting to see if this means nothing anymore. Feels like LCT is the right place to try again.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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#16Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:21pm
I have loved all three of these productions and loved them all.
To see it at the VB? Stunning. Cannot wait to catch it again. My guess is the only way Levy doesn't stay with it is if N2N comes over.
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#17Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:21pm
EDSOSLO858 said: "Busy late summer for Shaina Taub, who’ll be doing this as SUFFS prepares to launch its tour and DEVIL WEARS PRADA more than likely gears up for Broadway."
lol
I'm just here so I don't get fined
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#18Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:22pm
Levy is doing both this and LOST BOYS. NEXT TO NORMAL isn't coming over, their plan B was the PBS proshot.
Well, I’ll be. That bird really did it.
Updated On: 4/7/25 at 12:22 PM
#19Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:22pm
The benefit of reviving this at LCT is that it doesn’t rely as much on commercial viability. If it is somehow a financial smash, they can always extend and milk some additional money out of it. But it can also close at a loss - as most subscription house productions do - and it doesn’t have to be viewed as a failure in the same way the 2009 revival was.
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#20Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:28pm
From the article:
"Previews are scheduled to begin September 25 ahead of an Oct. 16 opening, people familiar with the production said."
Never seen or listened to this show? What's the best recording?
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#21Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:30pm
The OBC. Wow you’re in for a treat Audra, Marin and Brian have recorded some iconic sounds. It’s a treasure of gold. You could listen to ‘back to before’ first immediately.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
inception
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#22Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:33pm
When tickets go on sale, would you do this as part of a 2 show day? Or would you give it its own day?
Looking at a Saturday matinee at the Met, and thinking maybe convenient to stay around Lincoln Center?
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Updated On: 4/7/25 at 12:33 PM
#23Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:36pm
ITS ABOUT TIME
you found your heart but left a part of you behind <3
#24Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:45pm
inception said: "When tickets go on sale, would you do this as part of a 2 show day? Or would you give it its own day?
Looking at a Saturday matinee at the Met, and thinking maybeconvenient to stay aroundLincoln Center?"
I’d personally be completely exhausted (in a bad way, not an artistically fulfilling way) by an opera followed by a 3+ hour musical about racism and antisemitism at the turn of the century, regardless of how close the buildings are to each other. I would need a heavy nap in between.
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#25Lincoln Center Theater to Revive RAGTIME at the Vivian Beaumont, Fall 2025
Posted: 4/7/25 at 12:47pm
ColorTheHours048 said: "The benefit of reviving this at LCT is that it doesn’t rely as much on commercial viability. If it is somehow a financial smash, they can always extend and milk some additional money out of it. But it can also close at a loss - as most subscription house productions do - and it doesn’t have to be viewed as a failure in the same way the 2009 revival was."
^This!^
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