![]() “I wanted the set to feel big, and be big, so that the characters felt small and so that the audience kind of felt small, so that we’re always questioning this idea of the American dream,” Sutherlin said. During the genres most popular period, 1910-1920, patrons could drop a coin in a player piano and hear the latest by Eubie Blake and Jelly Roll Morton. Once the design was in place, a team of people started constructing the set in late February, then moved into the park to finish it. + The happy, rhythmically infectious music known as ragtime flourished internationally between the late 1890s and 1920. He still sees potential for a bigger ragtime revival. Today Zimmerman runs American Ragtime Co., a Grass Valley, Calif., business that records and publishes ragtime classics and the works of early-20th-century blues composers. The two reached what Sutherlin called a “happy medium” of compromises: Images of people are on the set’s facade. In 1983, he became the first ragtime artist to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Performance Location: Metropolis Performing Arts Centre 111 W. Doctorow Content Warning: Those attending RAGTIME are advised that the show contains depictions of discrimination and racism including the use of derogatory racial slurs. ![]() Scenic designer Teresa Williams took Sutherlin’s ideas and came back with her own. Audition Date: By digital self-tape until role is filled. Book by Terrence McNally Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Music by Stephen Flaherty Based on the novel, Ragtime by E.L. She was inspired by an immersive art exhibition by French artist JR at the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital in New York City, where large-scale photographs of immigrants adorn the walls. That started back in late 2022, when Sutherlin met with the creative team and brought a “lookbook” of ideas for the set. However, with the rise of the even harder-swinging stride piano style, novelty ragtime was largely forgotten. Social Implications and Commodification Ragtime was an important genre for the inclusion of all African-Americans. For the set, Sutherlin conceptualized a deconstructed Statue of Liberty. Arguably the first novelty ragtime compositions appeared in 1921 in the form of 'Kitten on the Keys' and 'My Pet,' both written by pianist Zez Confrey, generally acknowledged to be the styles most accomplished adherent. ![]()
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