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Mother agrees to house Sarah as she nurses her baby back to health.Īrriving with the immigrants, Tateh becomes a silhouette artist, struggling to achieve the American dream. Meanwhile, Mother unearths a newborn black baby buried alive in her garden, left there by her neighbor’s servant, Sarah. Father worries that Tateh “hasn’t a chance” in America, while Tateh thinks Father a fool for leaving. Please join us in celebrating this unprecedented partnership as Duke students and faculty to pay homage to the fusion of marches, cakewalks, gospel and of course, ragtime.Īs Father leaves on a voyage to the North Pole, his ship passes a ship of Jewish immigrants bearing Tateh and the Little Girl, arriving in America for the first time.

Exhilarating and exciting, Ragtime offers a story for the whole family. The lives of a family of upper-class WASPs in suburban New York, an African-American couple in Harlem, and a small immigrant family in the Lower East Side all intersect as they all search for success in America. Ragtime follows three groups in collision at the dawn of 20th Century America. This amalgamation garnered the original Broadway production in 1998 a record-breaking 13 Tony Award nominations and 4 Awards. Doctorow, offers a unique combination of modern musical theater with a classic American music. Ragtime, based on the eponymous 1975 novel by E. This ground-breaking collaboration between students and faculty will involve 110 people, 3 academic departments, the Duke Chamber Players orchestra, and the South’s oldest student-run musical theater organization, Hoof ‘n’ Horn. The Duke University Department of Theater Studies and Hoof ‘n’ Horn proudly present the Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime.