A musical comedy tried call at Toronto and Los Angeles, and opened in Broadway on January 18, 1998.

It tells the story of trine groups witharound United states, represented by Coalhouse Walker, the Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP personal in Up to date Rochelle, NY; & Tateh, a Latvian Jewish immigrant. Historical numbers like Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw, Admiral Peary, Matthew Henson, and Emma Goldman also appear. A music includes marches, cakewalks, gospel and ragtime. A indicate is mostly sung-across, by owning virtually all of the story told across song, sustaining super little spoken dialogue.

A indicate was nominated for Twelve Tony Awards in 1998, & won for Better Featured Actress (Audra McDonald), Original Score, Book, and Orchestrations (William David Brohn).

Despite its limited begin of Broadway, Rag is considered by numerous musical theater aficionados to exist as one of a greatest Our contries musical comedy ever written.

Songs

ACT 1
"Prologue: Ragtime" "Goodbye, My Love" "Journey On" "The Crime of the Century" "What Kind of Woman" "A Shtetl Iz Amereke" "Success" "His Name Is Coalhouse Walker" "Gettin' Ready Rag" "Henry Ford" "Nothing Like the City" "Your Daddy's Son" "The Courtship" "New Music" "Wheels of a Dream" "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square" "Gliding" "The Trashing of the Car" "Justice" "President" "Till We Reach That Day"

ACT 2
"Entr'acte" "Harry Houdini, Master Escapist" "Coalhouse's Soliloquy" "Coalhouse Demands" "What a Game" "Fire in the City" "Atlantic City" "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc." "Our Children" "Harlem Nightclub" "Sarah, Brown Eyes" "He Wanted to Say" "Back to Before" "Look What You've Done" "Make Them Hear You" "Epilogue: Ragtime/Wheels of a Dream" "Forgive Sarah"