Invariably when artists portray and interpret actual events. The question of historical accuracy comes up And insofar as the piece talks about the structural seams of our society, it's still sadly valid." "As it turns out, the phenomena in the book are still around, and still current. "The novel of `Ragtime' reflects my thoughts, concerns and perceptions about the United States in the 1970s. "Inevitably when you're writing about the past, you are writing about today," said Doctorow. "Ed" Doctorow recently, from the home study in New Rochelle where he wrote "Ragtime" and such other historically inflected novels as "World's Fair" and "Billy Bathgate." "Dealing with times past is really a way of talking about the present," said celebrated author E.L.
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Just consider what else was in the spotlight when the show opened last winter: Broadway revivals of the World War II-themed "Cabaret" and "The Diary of Anne Frank." On film, the blockbuster "Titanic," and Steven Spielberg's cinematic account of a 19th-century slave uprising, "Amistad." And, display windows of bookstores featured Don DeLillo's Cold War novel "Underworld," and Charles Frazier's post-Civil War tale, "Cold Mountain." (The company recently filed for bankruptcy, which threatened to derail the touring run of "Ragtime." But thanks to some fast backstage maneuvers by the Seattle presenters, the show will open as planned Wednesday at the Paramount Theatre.)Īs it glances back vividly to an America of yesteryear - an America swelling with new waves of immigrants, embarking on expeditions to remote frontiers, being fissured with racial and economic inequities, dancing to an intoxicating new beat - "Ragtime" is well-attuned to popular entertainment's millennial obsession with historical hindsight.
It also inaugurated the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Broadway's newest showplace and another feather in the cap of the then-high-flying "Ragtime" producers, Livent Inc. When it opened last season on Broadway, after a development period spanning several years and two lengthy tryout engagements in Toronto and Los Angeles, "Ragtime" became a resounding hit. And so begins the musical "Ragtime," a Broadway pageant that mingles myth and history, entertainment and instruction, romance and tragedy on one enormous canvas of American life and music. So begins the 1975 novel "Ragtime" by E.L. "In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York."
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