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LYRIC STAGE PRESENTS
Ragtime
April 22 - May7, 2005
 Lyric
Stage, Dallas County’s only locally produced professional
musical theater company, presents the first local production
of the Tony Award winning musical RAGTIME, April 22-May 7, 2005
in the Irving Arts Center’s Dupree Theater, 3333 N. MacArthur
Blvd., Irving, TX. Tickets are available by calling the box
office @ 972-252-2787 or by ordering online at www.ci.irving.tx.us/arts.
Lyric Stage closes its 12th season with RAGTIME.
This epic musical by the award winning composer/lyricist team
of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and book writer Terrence
McNally paints a nostalgic and powerful portrait of life in
turn of the century America. Based on E. L. Doctorow’s
distinguished novel, RAGTIME intertwines three distinct stories
that poignantly illustrate history’s timeless contradictions
of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, and hope and despair.
Lyric Stage’s production will be the first local production
of this 1998 Broadway hit.
 The
RAGTIME cast includes Wendell Holden, Jr. as Coalhouse, Kia
Dawn Fulton as Sarah, Bob Hess as Father, Mary Gilbreath as
Mother, James Wesley as Younger Brother, Brian Gonazles as Tateh,
Lois Sonnier Hart as Emma Goldman and Christine Cunningham as
Evelyn Nesbit. Richard Rollin, Alex Hebert, David Staggers,
Randy Dobbs, Ryan Roach, Ben Giddings, James Williams, Sheran
Keyton, Paul Ducet, Susan Metzger, Vicki Dean, Helen Reikofski,
Doris Howard, Stormi Demerson, Vertecia Hodge, Chesa Starlette,
Michelle Jewett, Diane Robertson, Cedric Neal, Shane Hurst,
Eric Hopkins, Dayton Dobbs, Ivan Jones and Mathew Valah round
out the company.
Antionette Dipietropolo will direct and Sheila
Vaughn Walker will conduct and musical direct. Scenic design
is by Wade Giampa, lighting design by Susan A. White and costume
design by Billie Boston.
RAGTIME runs April 22-May 7, 2005 in the Irving
Arts Center’s Dupree Theater, 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd.
Performances are Thursday-Saturday evenings @ 8:00 PM with matinees
@ 2:30 PM on Sundays and on Saturday, May 7.
Ragtime photos by Bill Jauscha
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