Ragtime Revival — Page 2

Christiane Noll. That's all.

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>Galati was directing his own adaptation so he really understood the script's nuances in a way that was beyond compare.<

Terrence McNally wrote the book, not Galati.

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Here's another vote for the original production over the very handsome but less emotionally resonant revival. For me Marin Mazzie, Brian Stokes Mitchell and of course Audra MacDonald were born to play those roles. Seeing that original enormous cast sing those songs and fill the stage with that thrilling stage movement was a reminder of what the grandest of old-time stage musicals could give an audience-- brilliant spectacle in the service of brilliant emotional truth. I will give props to the elegance of the revival's concept, and credit them with making something wonderful of the "Crime of the Century" sequence, one of my least-loved scenes from the original.