So the cast of Ragtime finally arrived this past weekend, despite delays from hurricanes on the East Coast.  An enormous amount of music in the show (four times the size of the score for Guys and Dolls) so they’ve been buried wtih Rick Lewis for the first several days.

Gavin Gregory plays Coalhouse Walker, Jr. – the brilliant Ragtime pianist who stands at the center of the show.  Gavin and I actually did a show together 12 years ago in Atlanta, and hadn’t crossed paths again until the auditions in NY.

Rachael Ferrera plays Sarah, the young washer woman who falls for Coalhouse and steals his heart.

The wonderful Susannah Mars plays Mother, the housewife in New Rochelle, NY who undergoes a big emotional journey through the course of the play.  Susannah is just coming off of a successful run of Evita at Broadway Rose Theater.  And of course, you’ve seen her here in Batboy: The Musical, and Gypsy.

Robert Mammana, who played Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls, is back as Father, the patriarch of the New Rochelle family, who goes off exploring toward the North Pole, and returns to find that his family has undergone a dramatic transformation.

Alex Thede, plays ‘Little Boy’ – the precocious son of Mother and Father.

Danny Rothman, plays Mother’s Younger Brother, the restless soul who fall in love with Evelyn Nesbitt, and eventually becomes a devotee of the radical anarchist, Emma Goldman.

Steven Stein-Grainger plays Grandfather (and many other roles).

Jesse Means plays Booker T. Washington, the famous African American leader who counseled patience, education and non-violence on the road to progress.

Tiffany Haas plays Evelyn Nesbitt, the beautiful and infamous young woman who really become the first media star of the twentieth century.

Alicia Irving plays Emma Goldman, the radical anarchist, who fought for the rights of the common man.

Leif Norby, who played Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls, returns as Tateh, the enterprising Latvian Jewish immigrant, who struggles to support his young daughter, and eventually strikes it rich.

Anna Bishop plays Tateh’s little girl.

Lacreta Nicole plays Sarah’s friend, a woman of Harlem and several other roles.

Todd A. Horman, Nicely Nicely in Guys and Dolls, returns as Henry Ford, and Willie Conklin, the racist Fireman who incites the play’s principal conflict.

Dan Maceyek plays Harry Houdini.

Marty Austin Lamar plays a man of Harlem, and an attorney.

Tom Treadwell plays JP Morgan, a policeman, a fireman, and several others.

Sara Catherine Wheatley plays an immigrant, a woman of New Rochelle, a social worker, and many others.

Christine Lyons plays a woman of Harlem, and the Baron’s assistant.

Kent Zimmerman, who played Harry the Horse in Guys and Dolls is back as a man of New rochelle, a Fireman, Policeman and multitude of others.

Lawrence Street plays a man of Harlem.

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