Ragtime Revival- Page 2

[Parsley]

Posted: 1/21/14 at 3:14am

Loved the revival but preferred the original broadway version.

And I Adore the BBC live concert recording done many years ago and still watch this often and rather enjoyed the somewhat minimalist London production.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 1/21/14 at 10:11am

Christiane Noll. That's all.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 1/21/14 at 10:16am

^Yes!! I was completely taken by her performance.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/21/14 at 11:34am

>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.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 1/21/14 at 11:40am

I didn't see the original so I can't compare the two, but the revival was absolutely fantastic.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 1/21/14 at 12:31pm

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.