Tin Pan Alley Rag
Opening Night: July 15, 2009
Closing: September 6, 2009
Theater: Laura Pels Theatre
The Tin Pan Alley Rag tells the story of an imagined meeting of two of America’s greatest musicians, Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin. Both men changed the landscape of music forever with their contributions to the first American musical genre, ragtime.
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July 15, 2009
If the figures in wax museums could walk, talk and play the piano, they would closely resemble the leading characters in “The Tin Pan Alley Rag,” a bio-musical about an imaginary encounter between Irving Berlin and Scott Joplin. This stodgy and soporific show, which opened on Tuesday night at the Laura Pels Theater of the Roundabout, transforms the lives and careers of two of America’s great popular composers into two hours of theatrical elevator music.
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