GALA MATINEE PERFORMANCE:
SUNDAY, FEB. 12.
* Sunday, Feb. 12 is a special Benefit Performance and Gala. Enjoy gourmet desserts, champagne, guest speakers and more. All proceed benefit YMTC's Tuition Assistance Fund. Gala Tickets start at $45. THERE ARE ALSO REGULAR YOUTH, ADULT AND SENIOR SEATS NOW AVAILABLE.
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STUDENT/EDUCATOR EVENING:
THURSDAY, FEB 16. Special group sales land single ticket fees for students. Includes a talk-back with directors and cast after the show.
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ABOUT THE SHOW:
Ragtime, a musical drama, written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, noted playwright Terrence McNally, and based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, is set in the volatile melting pot of New York at the dawn of the 20th century.
Ragtime weaves together three distinctly American tales - that of an upper-class wife and mother, stifled and yearning for more, a Jewish immigrant, struggling to protect his young daughter against the ravages of poverty, and a Harlem musician wooing the mother of his child.
As the stories of these three unlikely collaborators weave in and around each other, they become united by their courage, compassion, and belief in the promises of the future.
Stephen Flaherty's score draws upon traditional Jewish folk sounds, Vaudeville's big and brassy melodies, and Scott Joplin's lively Ragtime invoking the very early sounds of the Harlem Renaissance.
Directed by Jennifer Boesing, choreographed by Russell Wright, and accompanied by a live 26- piece orchestra led by Music Director and Conductor Dave Moschler.
The show may be most appropriate for ages 13 and above.
An educational study guide for the show is available on the YMTC website: http://www.ymtcberkeley.org/ragtime/
YTMC brings together the Bay Area's most talented and dedicated young singer/actors with professional directors, designers, and musicians to create theater that takes on challenging and sophisticated musical and dramatic themes.
YMTC is supported in part by the Berkeley Civic Arts Commission.
