Two versions of Ragtime being liscened...

I was on the MTI website and there is now a "Ragtime (version 2)" being liscenced by them. i was wondering if anyone knows the difference?

Akiva

Yeah...but isn't the script the same...just the direction and sets were different.

Akiva

Well it doesn't say School Version like the other MTI Junior shows do, so i am not so sure.

Akiva

School edition? I just got the heebie-jeebies.

Personally, I'm waiting for the "school edition" of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

This whole concept of a "school edition" creeps me out. It's sensorship at its ugliest, disguised as an attempt to reach out to kids and show them theatre. "Let's just cut and water down a few offensive things, so mom and dad won't yank their kids out of our school, or even try to ban the play."

It's th equivalent of making Picasso's paintings "politically correct" or "user friendly."

Next we'll hear that Version 2 is actually an all-white version.

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I'm not sure what the first licensed version was, but I do know that some changes were made from the Broadway version. For example, the song "He Wanted To Say" has been cut for one of the versions.

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