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Ragtime - The MusicalÊ - Original Broadway Cast Recording 1998


About the Album: The most compelling American musical-theater song-writing team ... composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens often attain epic grandeur by using foreshadowing and recurring motifs to interweave the lives of the 10 principals.

Label: RCA Victor Broadway



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