How did some of your favorite songs come to be BroadwayWorld is getting the story behind the song in exclusive interviews from your favorite Broadway composers. Below, watch as Lynn Ahrens, currently represented on Broadway with Once on This Island and Anastasia, explains how she and collaborator Stephen Flahertycame to write an Act 2 anthem fromRagtime, 'Back to Before.'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 05:12PM on February 20, 2018