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Stage Door: Ragtime, My Wonderful Day
23 November 2009 12:28 PM, PST
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Give it up for Ragtime, a sweeping, ambitious revival that, with the election of Barack Obama, carries added resonance. The musical, an adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel about early 20th-century America, is moving, stirring and not to be missed. Real historic figures, like anarchist Emma Goldman, Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit and Booker T. Washington, loom over a narrative that tackles a time of extraordinary social, economic and cultural change.
To capture the era's pain and promise, three distinct narratives dovetail: a wealthy Wasp household with Father (Ron Bohmer) and Mother (a beautifully layered Christiane Noll); Tateh, a Jewish immigrant (a splendid Robert Petkoff) feverishly working to make a better life for himself and his young daughter; and a Harlem couple, Sarah (Stephanie Umoh) and musician Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Quentin Earl Darrington), struggling with a troubled love affair.
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- Fern Siegel
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Birthday Suit: You've Seen Demi's
11 November 2009 4:00 AM, PST
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The Birthday Boys and Girls of 11/11
1821 Fyodor Dostoevsky, legendary Russian author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov fame. So many movies inspired by his work. But he's not the legendary Russian author that'll be getting all the press this next couple of months. That'd be Leo Tolstoy, soon to be chattered about when The Last Station emerges as an Oscar contender.
1887 Roland Young, popular 30s and 40s character actor (Topper, The Philadelphia Story, Ruggles of Red Gap)
1898 René Clair, (pictured left), wonderful French writer/director. If you've never seen Le Million I urge you to rent it maintenant. His Oscar nominated films include The Gates of Paris (1957) and À nous la liberté (1931)
1899 Pat O'Brien --Ewwww, not that one people -- the actor! whose film career stretches alllllll the way from the 1931 classic The Front Page to 1981's Ragtime.
1901 Sam Spiegel, powerful producer. Boy was he on fire in
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Doctorow's Bleak House
22 September 2009 5:07 PM, PDT
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Review of Homer & Langley. By E.L. Doctorow.
Random House. 209 pages, $26.00
Don't let book jacket summaries fool you. Homer & Langley, E.L Doctorow's ambitious new novel, isn't anything like his richly detailed historical narratives, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, and The March.
His subjects, of course, are the New York City nutball Collyer brothers and their activities in - mostly in - and around their Upper Fifth Avenue mansion. The narrator is Homer, "the blind brother," who recounts a progression from the Manner to madness. But Doctorow makes no pretense in this novel to verisimilitude. Indeed, he extends their lives from 1947 to the late 1970s. Although (as the book jacket claims), "the epic events" of the twentieth century - "wars, political movements, technological advances" - do pass through the Collyers' cluttered house -
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Price of a Movie: 9.14.09
14 September 2009 8:00 AM, PDT
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E.L. Doctorow has done it: written a Great American Novel with his classic Ragtime. Does he make the same magic happen with his new, 1930s-set New York novel Homer and Langley?
E.L. Doctorow in conversation with Anna Quindlen
The Barnes and Noble in Union Square is simply killing it in the next two weeks: Nick Cave, Lorrie Moore, and David Byrne are just some of the names that are stopping by there to talk about their new books. But we're most excited for E.L. Doctorow chatting up his new book, Homer and Langley. Like his masterpiece Ragtime, Homer and Langley is a historically-based novel following the true story of the reclusive Collyer brothers. It should be fascinating to see how Doctorow's facility with language and history translates in person.
Where: Barnes and Noble Union Square, 33 East 17th Street
When: Tuesday, September 15, 7:00 pm
Price: Free!
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Broadway's Ragtime Launches Website, Poster Art Revealed
26 August 2009 9:49 AM, PDT
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The anticipated Broadway arrival of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts new production of Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Tony Award® winning musical Ragtime, based on the E.L. Doctorow novel and featuring direction and choreography by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, has launched its official website. The production has also revealed its poster art, the dynamic work is designed by acclaimed Italian illustrator Lorenzo Petrantoni.
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Kennedy Center Ragtime Announces 1 Week Extension
10 March 2009 11:09 AM, PDT
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced a one week extension for its production of Ragtime. The musical will now run in the Eisenhower Theater April 18 through May 17, 2009. Based on a 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, the production features book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and will be directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge. The musical is part of the Kennedy Center?s Broadway: The Third Generation, a series celebrating the current generation of Broadway musical composers. The official press night will take place on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
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Bohmer, Darrington, Noll To Star In Kennedy Center's Ragtime
28 January 2009 2:06 PM, PST
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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced casting for its production of Ragtime in the Eisenhower Theater April 18 - May 10, 2009. Based on a 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow, the production features book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and will be directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge. The musical is part of the Kennedy Center's Broadway: The Third Generation, a series celebrating the current generation of Broadway musical composers. The official press night will take place on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
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