The 2025 Broadway cast recording of Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of Ragtime, directed by Lear deBessonet, is now available digitally! CD and vinyl releases will follow on February 6 and April 3, respectively.
Listen to the full album below:
Plus, watch the cast perform “Journey On” in a new video:
The album is produced by three-time GRAMMY Award winner Sean Patrick Flahaven, four-time GRAMMY nominees Ahrens and Flaherty. The album was recorded, edited, and mixed by GRAMMY winner Ian Kagey and mastered by multiple GRAMMY winner Oscar Zambrano with art direction by Derek Bishop.
Check out photos of the cast getting a first listen to the album here.
The 2-LP vinyl will be released in three color variants: “Lady Liberty Green” for wide release; “America,” available exclusively at Barnes & Noble; and “Ragtime Red,” available exclusively at Lincoln Center Theater and Creative Goods.
The 2-disc CD and 2-LP vinyl variants are now available for preorder HERE.
Track List:
1. Prologue: Ragtime
2. Goodbye, My Love
3. Journey On
4. The Crime of the Century
5. What Kind of Woman
6. A Shtetl Iz Amereke
7. Success
8. His Name Was Coalhouse Walker
9. Gettin’ Ready Rag
10. Henry Ford
11. Nothing Like The City
12. Your Daddy’s Son
13. New Music
14. Wheels of a Dream
15. The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square
16. Gliding
17. Justice
18. President
19. Till We Reach That Day
20. Coalhouse’s Soliloquy
21. Coalhouse Demands
22. What a Game
23. Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc.
24. Our Children
25. Sarah Brown Eyes
26. He Wanted to Say
27. Back to Before
28. Look What You’ve Done
29. Make Them Hear You
30. Epilogue: Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)
Featuring a score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, book by Terrence McNally, and lush original orchestrations by William David Brohn, Ragtime is the sweeping musical adaptation of E. L. Doctorow’s classic novel that follows three fictional families in pursuit of the American Dream at the dawn of the 20th Century.
Black pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. (Joshua Henry) and his beloved Sarah (Nichelle Lewis), Jewish immigrant Tateh (Brandon Uranowitz) and his little girl, and a wealthy white family led by matriarch Mother (Caissie Levy). All grasping for the same dream, if only they can hold onto it.
Ragtime stars Tony nominee Joshua Henry, Olivier and Grammy nominee Caissie Levy, and Tony Award-winner Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Tony Award-winner Shaina Taub, Anna Grace Barlow, John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Nick Barrington and Tabitha Lawing. The production was directed by Lear deBessonet, with music director James Moore conducting a 28-piece orchestra.
They are joined by Nicholas Barrón, Lauren Blackman, Allison Blackwell, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Jordan Chin, Eean Sherrod Cochran, Billy Cohen, Kerry Conte, Rheaume Crenshaw, Ellie Fishman, Jason Forbach, Nick Gaswirth, Ta’Nika Gibson, Jackson Parker Gill, David Jennings, Kaleb Johnson, Marina Kondo, Morgan Marcell, Kane Emmanuel Miller, Jenny Mollet, Tom Nelis, Kent Overshown, Kayla Pecchioni, John Rapson, Matthew Scott, Ellie May Sennett, Deandre Sevon, Jacob Keith Watson, and Alan Wiggins rounding out the cast.
The creative team for the Lincoln Center Theater production of Ragtime includes Ellenore Scott (choreography), David Korins (set design), Linda Cho (costume design), Adam Honoré & Donald Holder (lighting design), Kai Harada (sound design), 59 Studio (projection design), Tom Watson (hair and wig design), Ann James (sensitivity specialist), and The Telsey Office, Craig Burns, CSA (casting). Music Director James Moore conducts a 28-piece orchestra featuring original orchestrations by William David Brohn, and vocal arrangements by Stephen Flaherty. Cody Renard Richard is the production stage manager.
