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More casting has been unveiled for Lincoln Center Theater's upcoming revival of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Ragtime, coming to Broadway this fall as previously announced. The company's new Artistic Director, Lear deBessonet, will stage the revival of the 1998 musical, a new production of deBessonet's 2024 New York City Center Gala staging. Performances will begin September 26 ahead of an October 16 opening night in LCT's Vivian Beaumont Theater, continuing for a 14-week limited engagement through January 4, 2026. Watch a teaser for the revival, filmed outside at Lincoln Center, above.

Newly announced for the production are Colin Donnell (Anything Goes) as Father, Nichelle Lewis (The Wiz) as Sarah, Ben Levi Ross (Dear Evan Hansen) as Mother's Younger Brother, Shaina Taub (Suffs) as Emma Goldman, John Clay III (New York, New York) as Booker T. Washington, and Rodd Cyrus (The Light in the Piazza) as Harry Houdini. They are all reprising their performances from the New York City Center run, along with the revival's previously announced stars Joshua Henry as Coalhouse Walker, Jr., Caissie Levy as Mother, and Brandon Uranowitz as Tateh.

The company will include a total of 33 actors, with an ensemble featuring Nicholas Barro虂n, Briana Carlson-Goodman, Billy Cohen, Rheaume Crenshaw, Charity Ange虂l Dawson, Ta'Nika Gibson, David Jennings, Marina Kondo, Morgan Marcell, Tom Nelis, Kent Overshown, John Rapson, Deandre Sevon, Jacob Keith Watson, and Alan Wiggins. Further casting, by The Telsey Office's Craig Burns, is to be announced.

Ragtime will feature choreography by Ellenore Scott, set design by David Korins, costume design by Linda Cho, lighting design by Adam Honore虂, sound design by Kai Harada, projection design by 59 Productions, and hair and wig design by Tom Watson. Music director James Moore will conduct a 28-piece orchestra featuring original orchestrations by William David Brohn, and vocal arrangements by Flaherty. Cody Renard Richard serves as production stage manager.

Based on a novel by E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime blends fact and fiction telling the story of New York City at the dawn of the 20th century, with a book by Terrence McNally, music by Flaherty, and lyrics by Ahrens. The story focuses on Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a Black man who buys a Model T Ford and sets off a chain of events that encompass all levels of New York City society, along with magician Harry Houdini, industrialist Henry Ford, celebrity party girl Evelyn Nesbit, civil rights leader Booker T. Washington, architect Stanford White, anarchist Emma Goldman, a Jewish Latvian immigrant who becomes a movie director, and an upper class white family living in suburban New Rochelle.

READ: The Making of Broadway鈥檚 Ragtime, an Oral History

The musical premiered on Broadway in 1998 following a pre-Broadway bow in Toronto, with an original cast that boasted Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, and Marin Mazzie. McDonald won the second of her six career Tony Awards for her featured performance as Sarah. Even in a year otherwise dominated by juggernaut The Lion King, Ragtime managed to also win Tonys for McNally's book and Flaherty and Ahrens' score, along with Brohn's orchestrations.

The LCT staging is being produced in association with Tom Kirdahy, Kevin Ryan, and Robert Greenblatt.

See photos from the 2024 City Center Gala production below:

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Photos: Ragtime at New York City Center

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