Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a fiery black piano man who demands retribution when his Model T is destroyed by a mob of white troublemakers. Walker's love interest is a young girl named Sarah--played in the Broadway production by Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald--who has been taken in by a WASP family ruled by "Father," a patriarchal figure who dominates his household (and his submissive wife) with his overbearing presence. Tateh is a Jewish immigrant who unwittingly finds himself involved in the birth of the motion picture industry after inventing a flip book for his daughter. An adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel, Ragtime takes us into the lives of these characters in a tale of turn-of-the-century America that also features such historical figures as Harry Houdini, Booker T. Washington, J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford.
CAST
NEW ROCHELLE
Father
J.J. Martin
Little Boy Matthew “Sparky” Falkowski
Grandmother Moonyean Field
Young Brother Jonathan Simmons
Conklin Jon Trekker
HARLEM
Coalhouse Jerrell Young
Sarah’s friend Stephanie Foster
Sarah’s friend Erica Romeo
Coalhouse’s friend/Conductor Anthony Coleman
Coalhouse’s friend/Hensen Josh Thompson
Booker T. Washington Joshua Thompson
Young Coalhouse Kason Sheffield
IMMIGRANTS/FAMOUS/ET AL!
Houdini Andrew Small
Kathleen Khara Hoyer
Emma Goldman Jayne Newirth
Evelyn Nesbitt Sara Steiner
Little Girl Maeve Jordan
Henry Ford Matthew Falkowski Sr.
JP Morgan/Adm Perry David Climo
showgirl/sob sister Jessica Serra
