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Ragtime - production images released

Earl Carpenter and Anita Louise Combe

Casting news

PRODUCTION images have been released from the new London production of Ragtime, which runs at Charing Cross Theatre until December 10, 2016. To view them, click here.

Previously Posted: The first image from Ragtime has been released and it’s of Ako Mitchell who stars as Harlem musician Coalhouse Walker Jr., one of the central characters in the musical. To view it, click here.

Previously Posted: Earl Carpenter and Anita Louise Combe will head the cast of a major new actor-musician production of Ragtime, which runs at Charing Cross Theatre for a 9-week season from Saturday, October 8 to Saturday, December 10, 2016.

Earl Carpenter starred in the West End and on Broadway as The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera and Inspector Javert in Les Miserables, and West End star Anita Louise Combe played Tessie Tura in Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre and both Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly in Chicago.

Ragtime led the 1998 Tony Awards with 12 nominations, winning four including Best Book by Terrence McNally and Best Original Score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.

It is the turn of the 20th Century in New York. An era is exploding. A century is spinning. And the people are moving in rhythm and rhyme to the music of Ragtime.

Based on the novel by E.L Doctorow, Ragtime weaves together the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr, a Harlem musician; Mother and her white, middle class family in New Rochelle; and Tateh, a Jewish immigrant who has come to America with his daughter seeking a new life.

Their fictional lives become dramatically intertwined with one another as well as with historical figures including Harry Houdini, Booker T. Washington, JP Morgan and Henry Ford.

The cast also includes Simon Anthony (Wonder.land, National Theatre); Bernadette Bangura (professional debut); Anthony Cable (The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Anything Goes, Napoleon, West End); Cavin Cornwall (currently playing Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Valerie Cutko (Raffaela in Grand Hotel, Broadway and Southwark Playhouse, Cabaret, West End)…

…Matt Devereaux (Hitler, My Part in His Downfall, Hampstead Theatre); Christopher Dickins (Monsieur André in The Phantom of the Opera, West End, War Horse, National Theatre); Tom Giles (Muse of Fire, The Globe, Freddie Mercury in Royal Vauxhall, Edinburgh Fringe/Latitude); Joanna Hickman (The Witches of Eastwick, Watermill Theatre, Johanna in Sweeney Todd, directed by John Doyle); Lemuel Knights (professional debut); Rachel Knowles (Spamalot, West End, Betty Blue Eyes, UK tour)…

…Ako Mitchell (Grey Gardens, Southwark Playhouse); Seyi Omooba (professional debut); Kate Robson-Stuart (Betty Blue Eyes, UK tour); Jennifer Saayeng (City of Angels, Donmar Warehouse); Jonathan Stewart (Guys And Dolls, Savoy Theatre/Phoenix Theatre, Grand Hotel, Southwark Playhouse); Gary Tushaw (currently starring as Joseph Taylor Jr in Allegro at Southwark Playhouse); and child actors Alana Hinge, Samuel Peterson, Ethan Quinn, Riya Vyas.

This new production of Ragtime follows critically acclaimed Titanic as the second in-house production at Charing Cross Theatre, directed by Artistic Director Thom Southerland and produced by Danielle Tarento, Steven M. Levy, Sean Sweeney and Vaughan Williams.

Ragtime has orchestrations and musical supervision by Mark Aspinall, choreography by Ewan Jones, set design by Tom Rogers and Toots Butcher, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Andrew Johnson, costume design by Jonathan Lipman and musical direction by Jordan Li-Smith.

Tickets: Premium £39.50 which includes best stalls locations, a programme and a glass of bubbly; £32.50 stalls A; £29.50 stalls B; £22.50 balcony; £17.50 slips. To book call the box office on 08444 930 650 or visit www.charingcrosstheatre.co.uk/. There are no booking fees on tickets purchased via the theatre’s website, phone room or in person.

Times: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm; Wednesday matinee at 2.30pm; Saturday matinee at 3pm.