If you already spent the bulk of your savings at last weekend's Broadway Flea Market, fear not: the highly anticipated Broadway revival of Ragtime has revealed their digital ticket lottery policy. Here's how you can be selected for the opportunity to purchase tickets for just $49.
Entries for a digital ticket lottery will open online at midnight ET one day prior to your desired performance. Winners will be drawn the same day at 10 AM and 3 PM ET. If selected, you'll have the opportunity to purchase up to two tickets at $49 per ticket. To enter the lottery, and for more information, visit LCTLottery.com.
Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Ragtime will begin performances on Broadway September 26 ahead of an October 16 opening night in LCT's Vivian Beaumont Theater, continuing for a 14-week limited engagement through January 4, 2026. The company's new Artistic Director, Lear deBessonet, stages the revival of the 1998 musical, a new production of deBessonet's 2024 New York City Center Gala staging.
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.
The production will include a total of 33 actors, with stars Joshua Henry as Coalhouse Walker, Jr., Caissie Levy as Mother, Brandon Uranowitz as Tateh, Colin Donnell (Anything Goes) as Father, Nichelle Lewis (The Wiz) as Sarah, Ben Levi Ross (Dear Evan Hansen) as Mother's Younger Brother, Shaina Taub (Suffs) 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. They are all reprising their performances from the New York City Center run. They will be joined by Anna Grace Barlow as Evelyn Nesbit, Nick Barrington as The Little Boy, and Tabitha Lawing as The Little Girl.
The ensemble will feature Nicholas Barrón, Lauren Blackman, 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 will round out the company. Casting is by The Telsey Office's Craig Burns.
Ragtime will feature 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 Productions, and hair and wig design by Tom Watson. Music director James Moore will conduct a 28-piece orchestra featuring original orchestrations by William David Brohn, and vocal arrangements by Flaherty. Cody Renard Richard serves as production stage manager.
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.
READ: The Making of Broadway’s Ragtime, an Oral History
The LCT staging is being produced in association with Tom Kirdahy, Kevin Ryan, Robert Greenblatt, and Lamar Richardson.
See photos from the 2024 City Center Gala production below:
Joshua Henry and Nichelle Lewis in Ragtime
Brandon Uranowitz and Tabitha Lawing in Ragtime
Brandon Uranowitz and Tabitha Lawing in Ragtime
Ben Levi Ross in Ragtime
Ben Levi Ross, Joshua Henry, and company of Ragtime
Stephanie Styles in Ragtime
Joahua Henry and Nichelle Lewis in Ragtime at New York City Center
Nichelle Lewis in Ragtime
Shaina Taub in Ragtime
Tabitha Lawing and Brandon Uranowitz in Ragtime
Caissie Levy in Ragtime
Company of Ragtime
Matthew Lamb and Caissie Levy in Ragtime
Joshua Henry and company of Ragtime
John Clay III and company of Ragtime
Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz in Ragtime
Matthew Lamb, Colin Donnell, and company of Ragtime
Joshua Henry and company of Ragtime
Shaina Taub, Ben Levi Ross, and company of Ragtime
Stephanie Styles and company of Ragtime
Company of Ragtime
