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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