Ragtime - The Musical (1998 Original Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Review: A Beautiful and Inspirational Cast Recording!
Hit: 5 Stars
This 2-disc set is the most beautiful recording you will ever come across. The sound is perfect and it contains all of the songs from the musical, unlike the 'Highlights' CD. The singers are brilliant and they play their roles perfectly. Brian Stokes Mitchell is a wonderful and intense Coalhouse, and Peter Friedman is a beautiful voice as Tateh. Marin Mazzie and Audra McDonald co-star as Mother and Sarah, and Mark Jacoby is a inspirational and powerful Father. Lynette Perry and Jim Corti are halarious as Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Houndini. Some of the best songs on this recording are:
Prolouge: Ragtime
Journey On
Success
Gettin Ready Rag
New Music
Wheels of a Dream
Justice
Till We Reach That Day
Coalhouse's Silioquy
Coalhouse Demands
What a Game(halarious!)
Atlantic City
Our Children
He Wanted to Say
Look What You've Done
Epilouge
This recording also includes a bonus track: The Ragtime Symphonic Suite, which contains the tunes to the main songs in Ragtime. Like the other songs, this track is wonderful. If you are looking for a recording that will make you laugh, cry, and inspire you all at once, this is the perfect buy for you!
Free Music Review: This show, and recording are awe inspiring
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been following Ragtime since it was in workshops back in Toronto, and I bought the one disc concept recording when I saw the commercial that said it was coming to Los Angeles, where I live. After I saw the show I was numb. I was lucky enough to see it with Brian Stokes Mitchell, and boy am I glad I did. I cannot imagine another actor giving the type of performance he did. I thought the Los Angeles cast was amazing, and I hate to hear people compare them to those that worked with the show for so many years (Original Broadway Cast). I am glad to hear though, that most of the L.A. cast are now on Broadway. But, back to the recording. I love every song, and find myself singing to them. I am an aspiring actor, and being 18 I hope that Ragtime is still around in 10 years so I can have a chance at playing Younger Brother. I think his progression through the show is quite dramatic, and one of the best parts. I guess this isn't really a review of the CD anymore, but I just wanted to say that Ragtime is absolutely amazing, and it deserved more Tonys then it got. (Best Musical, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Costumes, Best Choreography) Who's kidding who? The Lion King is just a big puppet show.Free Music Review: Undoubtedly the best musical ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
Ever since I attended Show Choir Camps of America and heard a performer sing "Daddy's Son", I have been hooked on the incredible musical "Ragtime". Having not been able to get to Broadway to see it with the original cast, I saw the touring cast when the show came to Memphis, and fell totally in love with this tremendous show. Now with this CD, I can imagine myself right there in the middle of these families and taking part in their lives. What else can I say about Brian Stokes Mitchell than "WOW!" His song to Sarah in "New Music" brings me to tears everytime, as well as their song to their son in "Wheels of a Dream". And then to wrap up the show with "Make Them Hear You" brings the show to an inspiring climax. I just don't understand how he did not win a Tony. Audra McDonald shines as Sarah and brings "Daddy's Son" to life. Marin Mazzie comes to the forefront of female Broadway stars as Mother, and her trio with Father and Tateh in "Journey On" gives me chills. And the ensemble just brings the whole show together.
I just cannot rave enough about "Ragtime"! What an awe-inspiring show!
Free Music Review: Broadway Shines Again ! ! !
Hit: 5 Stars
RAGTIME is a new musical up to par with the classics... from West Side Story, Fiddler on The Roof, Porgy & Bess, Guys and Dolls and countless others from an era when musicals were THE great American art form. It is the colorful novel with its intense and diverse cast of charactors brought to life without any artistic compromise. The story is as rich as the music - - the play is intense... though bitter, dark, tragic and melodramatic and larger than life at times, within the course of a mere chorus or scene, inspiring, hillarious, disturbing or uplifting... Some reviewers have actually complained about this... but the writers have this musical have gone to extrodanary efforts not to capture the story of a mere person, but a huge cast of individuals from a diversity of cultures with different hopes and dreams, and the chaos that ensues in the midst of a changing era as their lives are brought together admidst a tragedy. This is not merely a great musical... it is a play... and an operetta. The recording is almost as enjoyable as the musical, but you will probabably want to listen to and see both repeatedly. ENJOY ! ! !Free Music Review: Stunning, Thrilling, Brilliant......
Hit: 5 Stars
When "Ragtime" first was released with the Toronto in-progress work, I dutifully purchased it, kinda listened to a bit of it, and then put it on the shelf. Then this year's Tonys came around, my interest was piqued, and I purchased this 2-CD set of the Broadway cast. Was I insane before or what? This is thrilling, brilliant work and I can't recommend this highly enough. I thought I had grown past my long-standing Broadway period, but maybe there was just nothing to listen to, until now, as I can't seem to keep this off the CD player. "Wheels of a Dream" and "Daddy's Hands" are embued with such passion and heartfelt drama. I feel like I should write a fan letter, which I don't even DO <g>, to Audra McDonald! While I don't want to diss "The Lion King" 'cause I think that Julie T. must be a genius in terms of staging, THIS is music as opposed to the conglomerate of writers that represented T/L/King music and lyrics (I'm surprised that Michael Eisner didn't claim a writing credit too). Well. There. Go out and buy this and feel what amazing, thrilling musical theater is all about.