A newly released video takes us into the recording studio for the recently released revival cast album of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Ragtime, currently running at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theatre on Broadway. See Shaina Taub, Ben Levi Ross, and Joshua Henry sing "He Wanted to Say" from the score in the video above.

Ahrens and Flaherty join Concord's Sean Patrick 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 Lear 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, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz lead the cast as Coalhouse Walker, Jr., Mother, and Tateh, respectively, with Colin Donnell (Anything Goes) as Father, Nichelle Lewis (The Wiz) as Sarah, Ross (Dear Evan Hansen) as Mother's Younger Brother, 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. 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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