{"id":2227967,"date":"2026-01-09T05:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2227967"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:56:03","slug":"broadway-cast-recording-from-new-ragtime-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/broadway-cast-recording-from-new-ragtime-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway Cast Recording From New ‘Ragtime’ Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tRagtime<\/em> is a musical with good bones. After making its Broadway<\/a> debut in 1998, the play about turn-of-the-century America (as told through the eyes of three different groups) won four Tony Awards: best performance by a featured actress in a musical for then-budding legend Audra McDonald; best book of a musical for Terrence McNally; best orchestrations for William David Brohn; and best original score for Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens.<\/p>\n

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\n\tFlaherty\u2019s music and Ahrens\u2019 words are finding new life on Broadway these days thanks to the Lincoln Center Theater\u2019s current revival<\/a> of Ragtime<\/em>, directed by Lear deBessonet. The revival is earning rave notices and big sales, even setting a new record<\/a> for highest weekly grosses in Lincoln Center Theater history. Billboard<\/em> has an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the cast recording of one of the musical\u2019s most powerful songs, \u201cWheels of a Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the below clip, you can watch three-time Tony nominee Joshua Henry in the vocal booth as he works himself up to a soaring, sonorous duet with Nichelle Lewis, the Broadway newcomer who turned heads with her starring role in The Wiz<\/em> in 2023. (McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell sang \u201cWheels of a Dream\u201d on the original \u201998 Broadway cast recording.) The video also offers a peek at the 28-piece orchestra, deftly conducted by James Moore, that plays on the new Ragtime<\/em> cast album. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe 2025 Broadway cast recording of Ragtime<\/em> comes out digitally on Friday (Jan. 9) with physical releases dropping Feb. 6 (on CD) and April 3 (on vinyl). Pre-orders for the physical releases are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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