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Triple 180gm red, white, and blue colored vinyl LP pressing in a hardbound slipcase and features individual jackets, along with a 20-page stitched booklet. The oversized booklet includes a new essay and track-by-track commentary from the Tony-winning songwriting team Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, a new interview with Brian Stokes Mitchell, recording session and production photos and the complete recording libretto. At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing... and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together - that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician - united by their courage, compassion and belief in the promise of the future. Together, they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair... and what it means to live in America. Album Tracks 1. Prologue Ragtime 2. Goodbye, My Love 3. Journey on 4. The Crime of the Century 5. What Kind of Woman 1. A Shtetl Iz Amereke 2. Success 3. His Name Was Coalhouse Walker 4. Gettin' Ready Rag 5. Henry Ford 6. Nothing Like the City 7. Your Daddy's Son 8. The Courtship 9. New Music 1. Wheels of a Dream 2. The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square 3. Gliding 4. The Trashing of the Car 5. Justice 6. President 7. Till We Reach That Day 1. Entr'acte 2. Harry Houdini, Master Escapist 3. Coalhouse's Soliloquy 4. Coalhouse Demands 5. What a Game 6. Fire in the City 7. Atlantic City 1. Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc 2. Our Children 3. Harlem Nightclub 4. Sarah Brown Eyes 5. He Wanted to Say 6. Back to Before 1. Look What You've Done 2. Make Them Hear You 3. Epilogue Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise) 4. The Ragtime Symphoni
