Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#2Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 3:18pmDoes this go back to the "casting without appearance" thread. Salonga and Arden as siblings? I like it! I'm glad they're taking some risks.
#2Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 3:18pmNO! Rob, you're doing it wrong!!!!! You can only announce one name per month!!!! YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#3Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 3:21pmI mean...I know we've been making fun of the roll-out...but it's a pretty damn good cast for a concert.
#4Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 3:30pm
Benjamin Schrader's in it too, wow!
https://twitter.com/schrader99/status/292004614860046336
I'm so annoyed by that terrible thread, but you're right. This cast is impressive!
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#5Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 3:31pm
We can be very Catholic about it, and deny it ever existed!
Just take a cleansing breath!
RippedMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#6Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 3:36pmWho is playing Sarah? Do we know yet?
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#7Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 3:43pmNope... At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if it's Nikki Renee Daniels. Apart from Lea, those already cast give me a reaction of "well, of course. They fit that so well."
MenzelManiac
Leading Actor Joined: 1/8/05
#8Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 3:44pmNo Sarah yet, no Evelyn yet.
#9Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 4:11pm
lol, Jordan.
Michael Arden is going to sound GORGEOUS.
As annoyed as I was by the existence of this concert because of that ridiculous thread, I'm really sad to miss it.
Also, psst, it's Felciano.
#10Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 4:15pm^ I like to pronounce it Felithiano.
#11Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 5:18pmMichael Arden is going to be great! Wish I could see this.
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#12Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/17/13 at 5:46pmMenzelManiac, you can make it up to us for that other thread by release a recording of this concert. Whaddya say?
MenzelManiac
Leading Actor Joined: 1/8/05
#13Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/18/13 at 3:33pmHaha, all I can say is that there is not going to be a professional recording released of the show. That's all I'm able to say. Outside of a private message.
#14Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/18/13 at 7:10pm
I bet Arden will be spectacular. Nice to have him back on the New York stage for the first time in what seems like a while.
As for the believability issues, I'm very of the mind of "it's a concert". If we've had a South Pacific concert with a fifty year old Nellie and a black Emile, then we can do a Ragtime where Salonga and Arden play siblings.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#15Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/21/13 at 1:01am
Hopefully, Arden will find time off from his ANGER MANAGEMENT schedule to do more singing and New York Theatre, where he belongs and is loved. Many of the recent BARE reviews mentioned his performance. The same could happen when PIPPIN opens.
Nikki Rene would be a great Sarah, she might become very busy with her happy "condition".
This is turning out to be an exciting cast, please Stafford, my friend, don't screw this up!
#16Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/21/13 at 1:11amThough I doubt it will happen, Anika Noni Rose as Sarah would be an absolute dream.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
MenzelManiac
Leading Actor Joined: 1/8/05
#17Arden, McGillin, Boykin, Feliciano, McCormick & More Join Daly, Lewis & Salonga in RAGTIME Concert 2/18
Posted: 1/22/13 at 9:06am
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https://www.livingsocial.com/events/590324-ticket-to-ragtime-a-concert-performance
