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letra de prologue: ragtime - 'ragtime' 2025 broadway cast

[little boy, spoken]
in 1902, father built a house at the crest of the broadview avenue hill in new roch-lle, new york
and it seemed for some years thereafter
that all the family’s days would be warm and fair

[people of new roch-lle]
the skies were blue and hazy
rarely a storm, barely a chill

[women]
la, la-la-la-la

[people of new roch-lle]
the afternoons were lazy
everyone warm, everything still

[men]
la, la-la-la-la

[people of new roch-lle]
and there was distant music
simple and somehow sublime
giving the nation a new syncopation
thе people called it ragtimе

[father, spoken]
father was well-off, very well-off
his considerable income was derived from the manufacture of
fireworks and bunting and other accoutrements of patriotism
father was also something of an amateur explorer
[mother, spoken]
the house on the hill in new roch-lle was mother’s domain
she took pleasure in making it comfortable for the men of her family
and often told herself how fortunate she was
to be so protected and provided for by her husband

[younger brother, spoken]
mother’s younger brother worked at father’s fireworks factory
he was a g*nius at explosives
but he was also a young man in search of something to believe in
his sister wondered when he would find it

[grandfather, spoken]
grandfather had been a professor of greek and latin
now retired and living with his daughter and her family
he was thoroughly irritated by everything

[people of new roch-lle]
the days were gently tinted
lavender, pink, lemon and lime

[mother]
ladies with parasols

[younger brother]
fellows with tennis b-lls
[father]
there were gazebos and there were no negroes

[people of harlem]
and everything was ragtime
listen to that ragtime

[coalhouse, spoken]
in harlem, men and women of color forgot their troubles
and danced and reveled to the music of coalhouse walker, jr.
this was a music that was theirs and no one else’s

[sarah, spoken]
one young woman thought coalhouse played just for her
her name was sarah

[booker. t. washington, spoken]
booker t. washington was the most famous negro in the country
he counseled friendship between the races and spoke of the promise of the future
he had no patience for negroes who lived less than exemplary lives

[people of new roch-lle]
ladies with parasols, fellows with tennis b-lls
there were no negroes and there were no immigrants

[tateh, spoken]
in latvia, a man dreamed of a new life for his little girl
it would be a long journey, a terrible one
he would not lose her as he had her mother
his name was tateh
he never spoke of his wife
the little girl was all he had now
together, they would escape
[little boy, spoken]
houdini
look, it’s houdini

[people, spoken]
ooh, ah
ooh, ah

[houdini, spoken]
harry houdini was one immigrant who made an art of escape
he was a headliner in the top vaudeville circuits

[houdini’s mother, spoken]
ich bin die mutter des großen houdinis

[houdini, spoken]
he made his mother proud—mwah
but for all his achievements, he knew he was only an illusionist
he wanted to believe there was more
h-llo, sonny

[little boy, spoken]
warn the duke

[houdini, spoken]
what did you say?

[people of new roch-lle]
and there was distant music
changing the tune, changing the time

[people of harlem]
giving the nation a new syncopation

[company]
la, la, la

[men]
la, la, la

[j.p. morgan, spoken]
certain men make a country great

[henry ford, spoken]
they can’t help it

[j.p. morgan, spoken]
at the very apex of the american pyramid—

[henry ford, spoken]
that’s the very tip-top

[j.p. morgan, spoken]
like pharaohs reincarnate, stood j.p. morgan—

[henry ford, spoken]
and henry ford

[j.p. morgan, spoken]
all men are born equal—

[henry ford, spoken]
but the cream rises to the top

[emma goldman, spoken]
let me at those sons of b-tches
these men are the demons who are sucking your very souls dry
i hate them

[j.p. morgan, spoken]
someone should arrest that woman

[emma goldman, spoken]
the radical anarchist emma goldman fought against the ravages of american capitalism
as she watched her fellow immigrants’ hopes turn to despair on the lower east side

[evelyn nesbit]
la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, oh
wee

[emma goldman, spoken]
but america was watching another drama

[evelyn nesbit, spoken]
evelyn nesbit was the most beautiful woman in america
if she wore her hair in curls, every woman wore her hair in curls

[stanford white, spoken]
her lover was the eminent architect, stanford white
designer of the pennsylvania station on thirty-third street

[harry k. thaw, spoken]
her husband, the eccentric millionaire harry k. thaw
was a violent man

[evelyn nesbit, spoken]
after her husband shot her lover
evelyn became the biggest attraction in vaudeville since tom thumb

[new roch-lle women]
la-la, la-la-la

[men]
bang

[new roch-lle women]
la-la-la

[men]
bang

[new roch-lle women]
la

[men]
bang

[emma goldman, spoken]
and although the newspapers called the shooting “the crime of the century,”
goldman knew it was only 1906—

[company]
and there were ninety-four years to go

[emma goldman, spoken]
wee

[company]
and there was music playing
catching a nation in its prime
beggar and millionaire, everyone, everywhere
moving to the ragtime

[the dance swirls around mother, tateh, and coalhouse. blacks, whites, and immigrants find themselves in moments of contact or confrontation.]

[company]
and there was distant music
skipping a beat, singing a dream

[women]
la, la-la-la-la

[company]
a strange, insistent music
putting out heat, picking up steam

[men]
la, la-la-la-la

[company]
the sound of distant thunder
suddenly starting to climb
it was the music of something beginning
an era exploding, a century spinning
in riches and rags and in rhythm and rhyme
the people called it ragtime
ragtime (ragtime)
ragtime (ragtime)
ragtime (ragtime, ragtime)

- ragtime 2025 broadway cast

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