Stars of London's Ragtime Share Why Its Story of Anguish & Hope Deserves to Be Told in 2016
The first act of Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Terrence McNally's Ragtime ends with Sarah, a young black woman, murdered by police as she's mistakenly identified as a potential assassin at a political rally. With little time for the audience to process her death, the company launches into the passionate dirge “Till We Reach That Day,” longing for the denied day of justice and peace. In Charin…