Concord Theatricals Recordings releases the digital version of the 2025 Broadway cast recording of Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed revival of Ragtime, directed by Lear deBessonet, January 9.
To stream or download the album, click here.
Two-CD and two-LP editions will follow, with the CDs becoming
available February 6 and three color variants of the LP version
releasing April 3. A “Lady Liberty Green” edition will get a wide
release, while an “America” color will be available exclusively at
Barnes and Noble and a “Ragtime Red” edition will be available
exclusively via Lincoln Center Theater and Creative Goods. Pre-orders of
the physical editions are available here.
To celebrate the January 9 release of the album, music videos for “Wheels of a Dream,” featuring Tony nominee Joshua Henry and Nichelle Lewis, and “Journey On,” featuring Olivier nominee Caissie Levy, Tony winner Brandon Uranowitz, and Colin Donnell, have been released. Watch them below.
“It’s been one of the great honors of my career to know and work with
Lynn and Stephen, so I leapt at the chance to collaborate with them to
record Ragtime, a score I have loved since I first heard the
concept album nearly 30 years ago,” said Concord Chief Theatricals
Executive (and album producer) Sean Patrick Flahaven in an earlier statement.
“This truly extraordinary production, with its cast of 37 and orchestra
of 28, creates an astonishing sound that we rarely get to hear anymore.”
“We’re well aware of the resources needed to make a recording of this
size, and we’re so grateful to everyone who helped make it happen,” added Ahrens and Flaherty. “Capturing these extraordinary performances at
this particular moment in time feels like catching lightning in a
bottle.”
Ahrens and Flaherty join Flahaven in producing the release, which features recording, editing, and mixing by Ian Kagey, and mastering
by Oscar Zambrano. Art direction is by Derek Bishop.
The revival began previews September 26, 2025, and officially opened October
16, with freshly appointed LCT Artistic Director deBessonet back
at the helm after creating the production last year for a short run at
New York City Center. See what critics had to say about the Broadway bow
here.
The extended run is currently scheduled to continue through June 14, 2026.
Henry, Levy, and Uranowitz lead the cast as
Coalhouse Walker, Jr., Mother, and Tateh, respectively, with Donnell (Anything Goes) as Father, Lewis (The Wiz) as Sarah, Ben Levi Ross (Dear Evan Hansen) as Mother’s Younger Brother, Shaina Taub (Julie Benko is currently stepping in for Taub, who is set to return March 31) as Emma Goldman, John Clay III (New York, New York) as Booker T. Washington, and Rodd Cyrus (The Light in the Piazza)
as Harry Houdini, all reprising their performances from the New York
City Center run. The Broadway cast also features Anna Grace Barlow as
Evelyn Nesbit, Nick Barrington as The Little Boy, and Tabitha Lawing as
The Little Girl.
The ensemble features Nicholas Barrón, Lauren Blackman, Allison
Blackwell, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Jordan Chin, Billy Cohen, Rheaume
Crenshaw, Charity Angél Dawson, Ellie Fishman, Jason Forbach, Ta’Nika
Gibson, David Jennings, Kaleb Johnson, Marina Kondo, Morgan Marcell,
Kane Emmanuel Miller, Tom Nelis, Kent Overshown, Kayla Pecchioni, John
Rapson, Deandre Sevon, Jacob Keith Watson, and Alan Wiggins. Swings and
understudies Eean Sherrod Cochran, Kerry Conte, Nick Gaswirth, Jackson
Parker Gill, Jenny Mollet, Matthew Scott, and Ellie May Sennett round
out the company. Casting is by The Telsey Office‘s Craig Burns.
The production also features choreography by Ellenore Scott, set design by
David Korins, costume design by Linda Cho, lighting design by Adam
Honoré, sound design by Kai Harada, projection design by 59 Studio, and
hair and wig design by Tom Watson. Music director James Moore is
conducting a 28-piece orchestra playing the original orchestrations by
William David Brohn, and vocal arrangements by Flaherty. Ann James is
sensitivity specialist, and Cody Renard Richard serves as production
stage manager.
Based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime blends fact and
fiction telling the story of New York City at the dawn of the 20th
century, with a book by Terrence McNally, music by Flaherty, and lyrics
by Ahrens. The story focuses on Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a Black man who
buys a Model T Ford and sets off a chain of events that encompass all
levels of New York City society, along with magician Harry Houdini,
industrialist Henry Ford, celebrity party girl Evelyn Nesbit, civil
rights leader Booker T. Washington, architect Stanford White, anarchist
Emma Goldman, a Jewish Latvian immigrant who becomes a movie director,
and an upper class white family living in suburban New Rochelle.
READ: The Making of Broadway’s Ragtime, an Oral History
The musical premiered on Broadway in 1998 following a pre-Broadway
bow in Toronto, with an original cast that boasted Brian Stokes
Mitchell, Audra McDonald, and Marin Mazzie. McDonald won the second of
her six career Tony Awards for her featured performance as Sarah. Even
in a year otherwise dominated by juggernaut The Lion King, Ragtime managed to also win Tonys for McNally’s book and Flaherty and Ahrens’ score, along with Brohn’s orchestrations.
The LCT staging is produced in association with Tom Kirdahy, Kevin Ryan, Robert Greenblatt, and Lamar Richardson.
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