![]() LOUIS PARDO: The show is relevant because it is about social turmoil and that will never go away.Īnother member of the Harlem group is Sarah, a young woman dealing with a pregnancy out of wedlock. Pardo says the immigrants coming to America now may be coming from continents beyond Europe but they face the same obstacles that his character Tateh faces. I’m not the same as you but I am my own person and I expect you to respect me. PAUL DAVID BRYANT: The message of Ragtime is live and let live. He’s now directing the show and says that the message remains the same. Paul David Bryant joined the national tour of Ragtime The Musical in 1998. PAUL Wow, it just really makes you go wow, wow… JAY DONNELL: It’s interesting, the show starts at 1906 and they talk about having 94 years to go before this change will come and here we are in 2016 and still facing some of the same injustices that people had to face, immigrants, people of color, and women had to face at the turn of the century.Īgan says these issues could be pulled from today’s headlines.ĬAROLYN AGAN: Coalhouse has this beautiful song at the end called “Make Them Hear You” and it could be sung every black lives matter rally that has ever happened. Donnell says that it’s about people at the beginning of a new century looking to the future with a sense of hope and change. JAY DONNELL: Coalhouse has a pretty big arc in the show, he’s a very proud man, very confident, and even though he’s met with racism of the times he always does his best to carry himself above rather than give into the hate.Ĭarolyn Agan plays Mother who is part of the upper class family living in NewRochelle.ĬAROLYN AGAN: Mother is the quintessential turn of the century woman where she’s on this straddling this this line of being a woman of the past and being a woman that follows her husband and follows the rules and does everything right and coming into her own as a woman of the new century.Įach of the characters in the play goes through a transformation as he or she confronts challenges. Jay Donnell pays Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a member of the Harlem group. Ragtime divides its characters into three groups all pursuing the American Dream: The Immigrants (to which Tateh belongs), Harlem, and New Rochelle. And when it doesn’t it’s crushing and his story is finding his way to the American dream. ![]() LOUIS PARDO: He’s banked everything on the idea that the American Dream will come true for him and his family. Louis Pardo plays Tateh, a Latvian immigrant who comes to America in 1906 to find a better life. ![]() ![]() The story of immigrants in America is part of San Diego Musical Theatre’s production of Ragtime The Musical. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando took in a rehearsal of the San Diego Musical Theatre’s production that opened over the weekend at the Spreckels Theater.įor more than 100 years the Statue of Liberty has been saying to the world Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Doctorow’s 1975 novel Ragtime has inspired a feature film and a stage musical. ![]()
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