Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts has shared production photos from Ragtime, the Tony Award-winning grand finale of the 2022 Mainstage season and musical event of the summer. The sweeping and powerful musical based on EL Doctorow’s book of the same name is helmed by Bay Street Associate Artistic Director Will Pomerantz, who brings with him much of the creative team that delivered Evita’s hit Evita. 2019. Ragtime begins previews this week on Tuesday, August 2 and ends on August 28.
Check out a first look at the photos below!
The play will premiere Tuesday through Friday and will have its opening night on Saturday, August 6 at 8 p.m. Single-seat tickets are currently available from $79.99. To purchase tickets, call the box office at 631 725 9500 or visit baystreet.org.
With music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and book by Terrence McNally, rediscover America with Ragtime, the epic musical adaptation of EL Doctorow’s classic novel that captures the American experience at the turn of the 20th century. The worlds of a wealthy white couple, a Jewish immigrant father and daughter, and an African-American ragtime musician intertwine in this musical about America’s golden age when our nation was mixing, boiling and changing. Will Pomerantz, Associate Artistic Director of the Bay Street Theatre, will bring together much of the creative team with whom he staged Bay Street’s extraordinary production of Evita to create a visionary new production of this Tony-winning contemporary classic. Awards in the East End.
The cast includes Kyrie Courter (Sarah); Derrick Davis (Coalhouse); Lora Lee Gayer (mother); Zachary Prince (Tateh); Daniel Jenkins (father); Harrison Bryan (younger brother); Davon Williams (Booker T. Washington); Clyde Voce (Matthew Henson); Rachel Parker (Sarah’s friend); Taylor Jackson (wife from Harlem); Cathryn Wake (Evelyn Nesbit); Victoria Huston-Elem (Emma Goldman); Ryan M. Hunt (Willie Conklin); Cecelia Ticktin (Kathleen), Will Hantz (The Boy); Sonnie Betts (The Girl); and Ian Lowe and Brianna Kaleen as swings.
Ragtime’s creative team includes: Will Pomerantz (director); Christopher Grant and Lauren Grant (co-choreographers); James Bassi (music director); Rick Sordelet (fight director); Anna Louizos (stage designer); Hunter Kaczorowski (costume designer); Meghan O’Beirne (associate costume designer); Mike Billings (lighting designer); Dalton Hamilton (assistant lighting designer/programmer); Jon Weston (sound designer); John Millerd (Associate Sound Designer); Brian C. Staton (projection designer); Andrew Diaz (props designer); Ryan Touhey (Orchestra); Tommy Kurzman (hair/makeup artist); James FitzSimmons (production manager); and Christine Catti (assistant manager).
Photo credit: Lenny Stucker
The Ragtime Company: Sonnie Betts, Harrison Bryan, Kyrie Courter, Derrick Davis, Lora Lee Gayer, Will Hantz, Ryan M. Hunt, Victoria Huston-Elem, Taylor Jackson, Daniel Jenkins, Brianna Kaleen, Ian Lowe, Rachel Parker, Zachary Prince, Cecelia Ticktin, Clyde Voce, Cathryn Wake and Davon Williams
Lora Lee Gayer and Daniel Jenkins
Derrick Davis and Kyrie Courter
Sonnie Betts and Zachary Prince
Derrick Davis and Kyrie Courter
Davon Williams, Rachel Parker, Will Hantz, Cathryn Wake, Sonnie Betts, Zachary Prince, Cecelia Ticktin, Taylor Jackson and Daniel Jenkins
Rachel Parker, Taylor Jackson, Derrick Davis, Clyde Voce and Davon Williams
Daniel Jenkins, Davon Williams, Cecelia Ticktin, Victoria Huston-Elem, Rachel Parker, Harrison Bryan, Ryan M. Hunt, Cathryn Wake, Taylor Jackson and Clyde Voce
