![]() ![]() ![]() With the purchase of a ticket, you will be given a viewing link and a unique access code to stream the film to one device connected to the internet. Location: Watching this online version of Ragtime is only available as scheduled content on the website ShowTix4u. With themes of racial inequities, police brutality, racism, immigration, and feminism, the contents of the story gush with a conversation that is unfortunately still relevant 100 years later. Set in the early 1900s, this 1998 Tony Award-winning musical is based on a novel of historical fiction written in 1975. The propelling momentum of change brings strangers to collide as African Americans from Harlem, White suburbanites of New Rochelle, New York, and Eastern European Immigrants wrestle with American idealism and the haunting melodies of inevitable transformation. Theodore Roosevelt was president, Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Houdini were the stars of the century, and the music of something beginning lingered in the air. Morgan, anarchist and activist Emma Goldman, and the Ford Model T. This was the era of Black American educator Booker T. The century spun in the summer heat with women in white and sturdy young men at the oar. “In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadway Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York.” And thus begins the story of E.L. ![]()
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