


Meeting in the BMI Workshop in 1982, Ahrens and Flaherty's long collaboration had produced the musicals Lucky Stiff, Once On This Island, My Favorite Year, Ragtime, Seussical, A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose, The Glorious Ones, Rocky the Musical, Marie, Dancing Still and Anastasia. Doctorows distinguished novel, RAGTIME was written by the composer/lyricist team of. Ahrens and Flaherty earned a 1998 Tony Award for their score to the work and Galati received a nomination for his direction of the production. In Concert with the Lyric Stage Orchestra. Doctorow's novel tracking an upper-class white family in Westchester, a courageous Harlem pianist, and an enterprising Jewish immigrant at the turn of the century. Also reprising their performances on the album are Ellen Harvey as Hannah Lynch, Nathan Salstone as Andrew Lynch, Sarah Aili as Sally Follet, Natalie Venetia Belcon as Jessie, Dwelvan David as The Ferryman/Doctor Dekalb, Jack Casey as Rufus Follet, Barbara Marineau as Catherine, William Parry as Joel, Abigail Stephenson as Victoria, Joel Waggoner as Ralph Follet, and Scott Wakefield as Man at the Scene.Īhrens, Flaherty, and Galati previously collaborated on Broadway's Ragtime, an epic stage musical adaptation of E.L. The album will feature the cast from the world premiere run, led by Jason Danieley, Hannah Elless, and Paul Alexander Nolan as novelist James Agee, Mary Follet, and Jay Follett (respectively). Outside Your Window (Jason Danieley & Paul Alexander Nolan).
