RAGTIME 2025 New Broadway Cast Recording Thread — Page 3

I love this album, i love this score, and i love this production. Congrats to everyone, but most congrats go to James Moore, legendary musical director, for his work on this. What an absolute triumph all around.

iluvtheatertrash said: "Cristopher was a standby in Sweeney. He never replaced."

He did play Sweeney after Josh Groban for about a month between cast changes and went on multiple times otherwise. So, no, he didn’t replace, but there was ample opportunity to catch his Sweeney performance.

It sounds glorious! "Goodbye, My Love" and "Journey On" are both such great songs. God, I just love this show.

I believe the original recording had an additional 10 string musicians or so, although someone correct me if I'm wrong.

binau said: "I find Nichelle’s phrasing in Daddy’s Son of “Only darkness and pain. The anger and pain. The blood and the pain. I buried my heart in the ground” particularly moving and dramatic. And the ending is quite vulnerable. I am a fan."

I'm a fan as well, my only complaint is that passage is almost impossible to decipher the words she is singing when you are in the theater, unless you know it already. I wish they could have done a little more work on diction in that part. 

I went to a fairly early preview and thought she sounded fantastic and had no problem understanding the lyrics.

CJRochester said: "Recording of "He Wanted To Say" in the studio. This gaveme chills.

https://youtu.be/cmVb9CYWVRo?si=aBn0YB9cQsKb3kN_"

The voices are so good, I wish I could hear this cast sing the original longer version of this song that's on the very first pre-Broadway studio album. I always loved the "We are comrades in the struggle that goes on across the earth..." section for Emma Goldman, I appreciated the larger political context for the song and for Coalhouse and Mother's Younger Brother. In the final song it's more just implied by Goldman's presence, the original draft brings Goldman up to the full bombast of the show at its biggest. I thought the show was kind of putting its money where its mouth is with those original lyrics. 

On the subject, I also always miss the slightly longer "Coalhouse's Soliloquy" ("Sarah, my life has changed/ Sarah the world has changed," the kind of broken funhouse mirror arrangement of that beautiful moment). Other than that (and even understandings these) the cuts and changes by Broadway were great. Just an interesting artifact, that album. 

Updated On: 2/7/26 at 11:08 PM

Rentaholic2 said: "The voices are so good, I wish I could hear this cast sing the original longer version of this song that's on the very first pre-Broadway studioalbum.


Umm what are you talking about and where do I find this??"

 

The original studio album has a sort of creme colored background with a drawn version of the logo (a flag streamer and Lady Liberty's arm entwined into an "R"). It's still streaming on Spotify, not sure about other services

 

Jordan Catalano said: "The article just posted about the cd signing says you need to pre register to attend yet offers no link to do it. Anyone know where you can register?"

The link was on Instagram: https://www.siriusxm.com/ragtimefrontrow