Ragtime (1998 Original Broadway Cast) - Tony Awards video free download

Alan Antonio

This was and still is THE BEST musical I have ever seen in 25 years of going to the theater, and I have seen many fantastic ones. A Masterpiece!

Brenna Fallon

This makes me miss when I was in this show as the little girl.. good times

Abby Overby

AND EVERYTHING WAS RAGTIMEEEE

sirtom23

Such an epic musical. I feel it deserves much more recognition.

alitlweird

it doesnt make me gay if i like this does it?

isaro murenzi

...Just noticed Lea Michele in there... Cool!

Clinton Parks

Got to see the 2009 version and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was my wife's and my first broadway show together. We got married a month later It was great. If we knew then what we know now.......we would have met some 30 years earlier and would have seen the great ones on broadway. BTW we are a bi-racial couple. For all of you Ragtime fans. The Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine (and does this place have a history) we'll be doing Ragtime.

Octopus Chutney

WAS THAT LEA MICHELE?!

Cheyenne Printup

I can't tell for the life of me: IS that kid at the very beginning giving the intro a boy or a girl?

Louise Ryan

i love this performance so much! I don't know about anyone else but at the end when they are sing those final Ragtimes, I can always hear Audra hitting those high soprano notes & it gives me chills

Robert Beukema

I love seeing little Lea Michele at 3:30! I forgot she was in this! Beautiful, sweeping story, great musicality- all SO original. Tough year with TLK, but this number holds up. A great Tony moment, for sure.

Branwen

SUCH an underrated show. I can't help wishing someone would make a movie version so that more people can be exposed to this absolute gem of musical theatre. Maybe Mandy Patinkin could play Tateh....

TheHolyMongolEmpire

Simply amazing.

Patrick Dyer

This should have won Best Musical. The Lion King is fun spectacle with great puppetry and all, but the epic scope and majestic score of Ragtime blow TLK out of the water. Just listen to how the audience responds to this performance. It's one thing to have a show where the audience simply cheers, but the way the audience here applauds shows they not only loved this performance but knew they were watching something really special. And most of the time it's just people standing around singing. No grand effects or gigantic spectacle, just brilliant performers singing a magnificent original score. That's theatre right there, folks.

magiccasements

I flew up from FL in 1997 to see the original cast of Ragtime at the new Ford Theater. It was the most magnificent Broadway show I've ever seen. A cherished memory. I went with my friend Dana who only a few years later died in childbirth. I am glad we had that special time together watching this show.

Liche Christ

Anyone listening to this without an actual broad-band, hi-fidelity music reproduction system doesn't know what they are missing !!! The gut-thumping Oompah bass is thrilling as it was in the live theater! It actually dry-cleans your clothes.

duffman102

This is probably my favorite ever Tony performance...love the musicality of this song, and the choreography/ staging of it is immaculate.

Space Jesus

Lia michelle is in this. We all know. We get it already for the 100th time. For the love of god stop fucking stroking yourselves to glee and just appreciate the genious of Ragtime without having to mindlessly point out Lia Michelle. 

Nerdboy208

I'm sorry but the little boy's voice at the opening is kinda annoying

Vosian

I was a fan of this musical long before the game was but a glint in Ken Levine's eye, but is anyone with me when I say that 0:20 - 1:12 is essentially Bioshock: Infinite the Musical?