RAGS - Broadway, 1986 - First Time Online
This video is a complete preview performance of RAGS, "The New American Musical," filmed on August 10, 1986 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. The show ran for 18 previews before opening on August 21. It abruptly closed on August 23 after 4 performances.
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A New York Times article, dated September 21, 1986, vividly recounts the troublesome journey of RAGS. Check it out here: [ Ссылка ]
A review of RAGS, dated August 22, 1986, written by the notorious former New York Times critic, Frank Rich, can be read here: [ Ссылка ]
Book by Joseph Stein; Music by Charles Strouse; Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
Directed by Gene Saks; Musical Staging by Ron Field; Scenic Design by Beni Montresor; Costume Design by Florence Klotz; Lighting Design by Jules Fisher; Sound Design by Peter Fitzgerald; Orchestrations by Michael Starobin
TERESA STRATAS - Rebecca Hershkowitz
LARRY KERT - Nathan Hershkowitz
JOHN ALLER - Guard; Mr. Rosen; Wealthy New Yorker; Herschel Cohen
EVALYN BARON - Anna Cohen
GABRIEL BARRE - Sam; Sweatshop worker; Laertes; Ragman; Man on Stilts
JOSH BLAKE - David Hershkowitz
MARSHALL COID - Violinist
MICHAEL CONE - An American; Rosencrantz; Irish Tenor on Recording; Frankie
MICHAEL DAVIS - An American; Wealthy New Yorker; Mike
REX EVERHART -"Big Tim" Sullivan
JOAN FINKELSTEIN - Esther; Sweatshop worker; Wealthy New Yorker
ANDY GALE - Homesick Immigrant; Recruiter; Thug; Italian Tenor
JOANNA GLUSHAK - Social Worker; An Avid Shopper; Ophelia; Wealthy New Yorker; Italian Tenor's Mother
BILL HASTINGS - Wealthy New Yorker
WENDY KIMBALL - Wealthy New Yorker; Irish Girl
JUDY KUHN - Bella Cohen
DICK LATESSA - Avram Cohen
AUDREY LAVINE - Rosa; Sweatshop worker; Irish Girl's Mother
MORDECAI LAWNER - Jack Cohen
MARCIA LEWIS - Rachel Halpern
TERRENCE MANN - Saul
DEVON MICHAELS - Morris
LONNY PRICE - Ben
ROBERT RADFORD - Wealthy New Yorker
IRMA ROGERS - Nathan's Landlady; Gertrude; Violinist's Mother
STAN RUBIN - Recruiter; Editor of newspaper; Mr. Bronstein; A Passerby
PETER SAMUEL - Guard; Cigar Boss; Hamlet; Wealthy New Yorker; Thug
BONNIE SCHON - Millie; Morris's Mother; Mrs. Sullivan
CATHERINE ULISSEY - Wealthy New Yorker
SWINGS: Mark Fotopoulos , Patti Mariano and Cissy Rebich
Understudies: John Aller (Ben), Joanna Glushak (Bella Cohen), Audrey Lavine (Rebecca Hershkowitz), Devon Michaels (David Hershkowitz), Irma Rogers (Anna Cohen), Stan Rubin (Jack Cohen, Avram Cohen) and Peter Samuel (Saul)
ACT ONE - MUSICAL NUMBERS
I Remember
Greenhorns
Brand New World
Children of the Wind
Penny a Tune
Easy For You
Hard to Be a Prince
Blame it on the Summer Night
For My Mary
Rags
What's Wrong With That?
On the Fourth Day of July
In America
ACT TWO - MUSICAL NUMBERS
Yankee Boy
Uptown
Wanting
Three Sunny Rooms
The Sound of Love
For My Mary (Reprise)
Democratic Club Dance
Prayer
Bread and Freedom
Finale (Children of the Wind)
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