RAGTIME Wins 2026 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical
Ragtime is now playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Lear de Bessonet's acclaimed staging of the modern classic, Ragtime, has won the 2026 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
This production began its journey to Broadway at New York City Center in 2024, and was nominated for 11 2026 Tony Awards.
The original 1998 production of Ragtime earned Tony Awards for Best Original Score, Best Book and Best Orchestrations. It also won Audra McDonald, the most Tony-winning actor in Broadway history, her first award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical.
Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens ("Once On This Island," "Seussical," "Lucky Stiff"), noted playwright Terrence McNally, ("Kiss of the Spider Woman", "Master Class"), and based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, the musical intertwines the stories of three extraordinary families, as they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and what it means to live in America.
The Tony-winning score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty is just as diverse as the melting pot of America itself. It draws upon many musical styles from the Ragtime rhythms of Harlem and Tin Pan Alley to the klezmer of the Lower East Side, from bold brass band marches to delicate waltzes, from up-tempo banjo tunes to period parlor songs and expansive anthems.
Featured are such show stopping songs as "Getting Ready Rag," "Your Daddy’s Son," "Wheels of a Dream," "Till We Reach That Day," "Back To Before," and "Make Them Hear You."
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