RAGS Industry Reading?

[BroadwayKid64]

Posted: 5/29/17 at 8:21pm

Anyone know anything about this? I was in the halls of Pearl on Friday and it sounded absolutely incredible. Haven't been able to get it out of my head all weekend. 

Is it Broadway bound?

 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 5/29/17 at 8:35pm

As per the spring/summer 2017 issue of Stephen Schwartz's quarterly e-newsletter The Schwartz Scene:

"Speaking of revisiting material, the other imminent theatrical project on my plate is a revisal of Rags, the 1985 show about Jewish immigrants in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century, for which I wrote lyrics to Charles Strouse’s wonderful music. The term 'revisal' in the previous sentence is not a typo. This production, which will be at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT this fall, will feature a reconceived book by David Thompson, the talented librettist of Scottsboro Boys. While most of the characters and much of Joe Stein’s original dialogue will still be part of the show, we have very much gone back to the drawing board in terms of the story and score. There will be several new songs, so I have a lot of work to do on revised and new lyrics. But I’m excited for the chance to get this show right, at long last. Given the fact that it is about immigrants and the challenges and resistance they faced becoming part of the fabric of America, it feels to me more timely than it has ever been."