Official Ragtime Love Thread
Official Ragtime Love Thread
Actor2
Featured Actor Joined: 1/12/08
#1Official Ragtime Love Thread
Posted: 8/12/08 at 2:25pmWith it's truly amazing score and timeless story, this incredible musical closed far too soon.
BradMajors
Featured Actor Joined: 8/11/08
#2re: Official Ragtime Love Thread
Posted: 8/12/08 at 2:27pmYes it did. I remember seeing this and being blown away by it's score and it's powerful performances. It's a gem of a show.
#2re: Official Ragtime Love Thread
Posted: 8/12/08 at 4:22pmIt my favorite show in the world. They are doing a revival of it here at Kennedy Center. I cannot wait.
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#3re: Official Ragtime Love Thread
Posted: 8/12/08 at 4:29pm2nd broadway show I ever saw, with the original cast, and it is still my favorite to this day.
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: Official Ragtime Love Thread
Posted: 8/12/08 at 4:43pmAny word on the Kennedy Center cast? Mu boyfriend has just recently discovered this show- it would be great to take him to see it live.
#7re: Official Ragtime Love Thread
Posted: 8/12/08 at 9:15pm
The best show I've ever seen, hands down.
I haven't heard any word on casting for the Kennedy Center production, but I'm unbelievably excited about it.
BradMajors
Featured Actor Joined: 8/11/08
#8re: Official Ragtime Love Thread
Posted: 8/12/08 at 9:45pm
It's wonderful news that the Kennedy Center is putting on a production. I personally feel it deserved a better fate. I hope it gets revived often so new generations can experience it in all it's glory.
I listen to the Original Cast Recording often and I'm magically transported back to the time this show opened the Ford Center for the Performing Arts (since renamed the Hilton) on a newly refurbished but not-as-of-yet finished 42nd Street.
Eagleman
Stand-by Joined: 6/5/08
#9re: Official Ragtime Love Thread
Posted: 8/12/08 at 10:28pm
I think it's the only show ever written without one throwaway lyric.
It's too bad the producer had such a bad sense of timing and the mentality of a
second-story man.
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