Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name...
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Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged"...
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Scott Joplin (redirect from The King of Ragtime)
American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime", he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and...
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on the novel Ragtime (musical) (1998), based on the novel Ragtime (1927 film), an American silent film directed by Scott Pembroke Ragtime (TV series) (1973–1975)...
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an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, becoming the model for ragtime compositions...
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"Twelfth Street Rag" is a ragtime musical composition published by Euday L. Bowman in 1914. A friend of Euday Bowman known as "Raggedy Ed" declared his...
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Wall, director, Village Theatre Buddy's Tavern Dig Lenny Bruce 21 Ragtime (musical), Coalhouse Dreamgirls, Curtis Funked Up Fairy Tales, director/choreographer...
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"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911; it is often inaccurately cited as his first global...
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Ragtime is a 1981 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1975 historical novel Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow. The film is set in and around...
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Irving Jones (category Ragtime composers)
(1874–1932) was an American comedian and songwriter who specialized in a ragtime musical genre known as coon songs during their heyday in the late 19th and...
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Ragtime Band is a 1938 American musical film released by 20th Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band"...
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She has also twice won Best Actress in a Musical for the original London productions of Passion and Ragtime. She played Elaine Peacock on EastEnders from...
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Lynn Ahrens (category American musical theatre librettists)
for the Broadway musical Ragtime. Together with Flaherty, she has written many musicals, including Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Ragtime, Seussical, A Man...
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Ragtime is a novel by E. L. Doctorow, first published in 1975. The sweeping historical fiction occurs in the area of New York City between 1902 and 1912...
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Classic rag (redirect from Classical ragtime)
(short for classical ragtime) is the style of ragtime composition pioneered by Scott Joplin and the Missouri school of ragtime composers. These compositions...
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Stephen Flaherty (category American musical theatre composers)
lyricist/book writer Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for writing the Broadway musicals Ragtime, which was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and...
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bring new musical styles such as ragtime and jazz to the theatres, and the Shubert Brothers took control of the Broadway theatres. Musical theatre writer...
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Stride (music) (redirect from New York ragtime)
piano, often shortened to stride, is a jazz piano style that arose from ragtime players. Prominent stride pianists include James P. Johnson, Willie "the...
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(c. 1892 – 24 November 1938) was an American vaudeville, ragtime, musical revue and musical comedy performer in the early twentieth century, who also...
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role of Mother in the staging of the musical Ragtime at Shubert Theatre in 1997. Gaven's latest role in a musical was in a 2001 production of 1776 by UCLA's...
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Ben Cook (actor) (category American male musical theatre actors)
stage and screen. Cook has appeared on the Broadway stage in Ragtime, Billy Elliot the Musical (for which he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award), Tuck...
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This is a list of musicals, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, and West End musicals, as well as film and television musicals, whose titles fall into the...
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The New England Ragtime Ensemble (originally The New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble) was a Boston chamber orchestra dedicated to the music of Scott...
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park and installed in front of the Gungahlin Library in 2011. (1916) ragtime musical comedy The Bunyip or The Enchantment of Fairy Princess Wattle Blossom...
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Jazz (category Musical improvisation)
in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression...
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Louis Chauvin (category Ragtime composers)
Louis Chauvin (March 13, 1881 – March 26, 1908) was an American ragtime pianist and composer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Mexican Spanish-Indian...
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A list of ragtime composers, including one or more famous or characteristic compositions. Felix Arndt (1889–1918),"Desecration Rag" (1914), "Nola" (1916)...
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for his ragtime compositions, and was dubbed "The King of Ragtime." During his career, Joplin wrote over 40 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet...
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Eubie Blake (category Ragtime composers)
of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, he and his long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals written...
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Marin Mazzie (category American musical theatre actresses)
her work in musical theatre. Mazzie was a three-time Tony Award nominee, for her performances as Clara in Passion (1994), Mother in Ragtime (1998), and...
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