Suffs<\/i><\/a> mastermind Shaina Taub) assume a greater presence alongside Tom Nelis as the curmudgeonly Grandfather, Rodd Cyrus as an (appropriately) appearing and disappearing Harry Houdini, John Clay III as Black leader Booker T. Washington, and Anna Grace Barlow as breathy femme fatale Evelyn Nesbit.<\/p>\n The intense personal dramas of the characters play out alongside the broader historical sweep Ragtime<\/i> illustrates, with walk-ons by Henry Ford (Jason Forbach and J.P. Morgan (John Rapson). The relentless churn of history, and past events both big and small, personal and social, powers the show.<\/p>\n
The central thrill of this Ragtime<\/i> is watching Henry and Lewis sing separately and together. The only question is how elated and\/or wrecked their performances will leave you (Henry himself has said he cries himself thinking about the company-sung \u201cNew Music\u201d as it \u201cembodies belief in newness, hope, and second chances\u201d).<\/p>\n
The notion that America can be better, will be better, is most resonantly realized in \u201cWheels of a Dream,\u201d which Henry and Lewis sing mesmerizingly together, bringing the performance to one of a few applause-breaking halts.<\/p>\n\n\nCaissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz \/ Matthew Murphy \/ Matthew Murphy<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Henry\u2019s voice swells and recedes like its own ocean, rousingly animating all his songs of injustice, determination, and yearning. Lewis\u2019 \u201cYour Daddy\u2019s Son\u201d is heartbreaking and beautiful, and \u201cNew Music,\u201d as sung by the entire company, crackles with the musical\u2019s most moving quality of transporting past to present.<\/p>\n
Levy and Uranowitz hold their sections of the show with charm and wit; the former as a rich white wife who finds in her husband\u2019s absence on an expedition to the North Pole a liberation he returns to quickly quash and suppress.<\/p>\n
Levy brings steeliness and measure (especially in her big number, \u201cBack to Before\u201d) to a subtly drawn portrait of a woman straining for independence. Donnell has a thankless role, and his boorish character\u2019s journey towards some kind of redemption is too subtle to be plausible.<\/p>\n
Like Uranowitz, Levy mines the sporadic outbreaks of comedy of Ragtime<\/i>. Uranowitz\u2019s Tateh is both striver and fierce widowed protector of a daughter. (Your heart churns every time they are nearly separated.) Tateh won\u2019t accept the second-class citizenship conferred upon him; twinkling charm, humor, and fierce determination are his weapons.<\/p>\n\n\nNichelle Lewis and Joshua Henry \/ Matthew Murphy \/ Matthew Murphy<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Designer David Korins has conquered the familiar problem of furnishing the large Vivian Beaumont theater stage by using simple signifiers (and bravely retaining the large ladders-on-casters that seemed perilous and ungainly at Encores! and now glide like swans with somewhere to go).<\/p>\n
Linda Cho\u2019s costumes are period-lovely, Adam Honor\u00e9\u2019s lighting blazes and softens at all the right moments, Kai Harada\u2019s sound design makes sure we hear every glorious note of the singers and excellent orchestra. (There are still wild swings in tone, character, and plot, and possibly the worst song about baseball at the weirdest possible moment\u2014i.e. when you least want a cheery song about baseball.)<\/p>\n
This Ragtime<\/i> remains as piercing as its Encores! template because its cast is still looking out from the prism of the past to a present-day that is more evolved, but which has only partially succeeded in realizing whatever hope for lasting equality and progress Ragtime<\/i> sings towards. Indeed, the forces of regression are presently resurgent.<\/p>\n
\u201cMake Them Hear You\u201d the company sings at the end very much at<\/i> the audience, followed by reprises of \u201cRagtime\u201d and \u201cWheels of a Dream.\u201d They are lovely closing songs for sure, but also sharp reminders\u2014almost indictments\u2014that the twinned struggles for justice and change are far from over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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