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The multi-award-winning play was first staged on Broadway in 1998. It lasted two years before it had to close because of the huge cost of the lavish production. A toned-down 2009 revival that went from the Kennedy Center to the Great White Way received more kudos.
Meanwhile, in 2003, Toby Orenstein directed a version of the musical at her dinner theater that earned 12 Helen Hayes nominations and won three of the coveted awards.
She's done it again, along with co-director Lawrence Munsey, in a wonderful production with her biggest cast ever, effectively using her intimate theatre-in-the-round to evoke ships meeting at sea, immigrants rushing on shore beneath the Statue of Liberty, union workers clashing with strike-breaking armed guards, an automobile assembly line, the boardwalk at Atlantic City, a Harlem street, and assorted other settings.
Like the 1975 novel, the play is set in turn-of-the-century New York and weaves together three stories: one of an upper-middle-class family living outside the city in New Rochelle; another of a newly arrived Jewish immigrant and his little daughter, and the life and eventual hard times of a young Harlem musician.
The protagonists all chase the elusive American dream, circa 1902-1914. The play accents the wealth and poverty, the freedom and prejudice, and the hope and despair of those years.
Cameos of such turn-of-the-century celebs as escape artist Harry Houdini, black educator Booker T. Washington, auto manufacturer Henry Ford, political activist-agitator Emma Goldman, and pop star-glamour girl Evelyn Nesbit take to the stage, and play sometimes significant parts in the lives of the main characters in the play.
Rousing, inspiring music
While the songs of Stephen Flaherty (music) and Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) may not have reached any pop music charts of the day, they are by turns rousing (the amazing "Ragtime" opening number), moving ("Your Daddy's Son," "Wheels of a Dream"), inspiring ("Justice") and heartbreaking ("Till we Reach That Day").
The play concentrates most significantly on the story of the ragtime musician, Coalhouse Walker, Jr., whose life is upended when he seeks justice for an insult to his dignity and the destruction of his property (a model-T Ford). Kevin McAllister, who plays a principled, outspoken, hopeful, then revolutionary Coalhouse, has a great voice to go along with his impressive bearing.
Other standouts in the cast (which is top-notch overall) are Elizabeth Rayca, as the sensitive and sensible mother of the New Rochelle family; Ada Satterfield (a beautiful voice!), as Sarah, Coalhouse's love and the mother of their child, and Josh Simon, whose Tateh (Father in Yiddish) is filled with an immigrant's faith in a successful life in the there and then. McAllister and Satterfield deliver an emotionally stirring duet in "Wheels of a Dream."
Also giving commanding performances are Coby Kay Callahan, as the fiery anarchist-labor organizer Emma Goldman, and David Bosley-Reynolds, who plays the Father of the upper-class family, who doesn't understand why he can't understand the changes going on around him.
The costumes by co-director Munsey are wonderfully of their time. Ilona Kessell, who won a Helen Hayes award for her choreography of Toby's 2003 Ragtime production, is back in charge of the well-paced choreography, although the show is more all-singing than all-dancing.
And special kudos to music director Ross Scott Rawlings, whose six-piece orchestra, hidden away in a room above the stage, sometimes seemed double the size, as it expertly set the pace and accompanied the singers and dancers.
OK, let's not go completely overboard. Parts of the Second Act seem less gripping than the First Act of the three-hour show. Still, Ragtime is just about all any playgoer could want from a dinner theater production of a lavish musical designed for Broadway.
The show will go on through Nov. 15.
Toby's Dinner Theatre is located at 5900 Symphony Woods Rd., Columbia.
Ticket prices range from $55 to $60, including an all-you-can-eat brunch or dinner buffet. For times, reservations and further information, call (410) 730-8311 or see www.tobysdinnertheatre.com.<eot>Mark Zuckerberg Takes Blame For ‘Over-Optimism’ As Meta Set To Lay Off Thousands Tomorrow – Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META)
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Lofton named award recipient
AUBURN, Ala. — The late Dr. Robert Lofton was among the a few outstanding alumni of Auburn University’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine to be honored as the 2022 winners of the Wilford S. Bailey Distinguished Alumni Awards.
The award is the maximum honor provided to Auburn Faculty of Veterinary Medicine alumni to realize their professional achievements in veterinary medication, superb contributions to their communities and the all round progression of animal and human wellness.
Awardees are identified in 3 spots of eligibility: community plan and exploration, academia and personal exercise.
Lofton was named receiver of the 2022 Bailey Award in non-public follow. Lofton gained a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Louisiana State College in advance of finishing a health practitioner of veterinary medicine from Auburn in 1972. Subsequent graduation, he founded College Animal Clinic in Lake Charles, wherever he practiced for the future 36 a long time. He joined the Auburn faculty in 2013 as an assistant scientific professor in the Office of Medical Sciences. During his five-year tenure at Auburn, he was a principal developer of the Auburn University Veterinary Clinic, the Auburn Veterinary Academy and the Hoerlein Corridor Spay-Neuter Application.
Lofton, Louisiana Veterinarian of the Calendar year in 1999 and a previous chair of the Veterinary Advisory Council at Auburn, served on the board of administrators of the American Animal Hospital Association from 2003-08. He was also a Diamond Amount Member of the Auburn Vet Med Centennial Club.
He and his wife, Lela, established the Robert M. and Lela Lofton Endowed Scholarship fund in 2017. He was also elected to the Opelika, Alab., Town Council in 2020. Lofton fought valiantly in opposition to a rapidly progressing disease in 2021 and passed absent in January 2022.
“Dr. Lofton was a definitely inspiring graduate of our college,” mentioned Calvin Johnson, Auburn veterinary dean. “He derived great pleasure from instructing and his contributions to Auburn will last for many yrs via his students’ achievements. Even though his existence was shortened by a tragic ailment, Dr. Lofton left a everlasting mark on many people today who experienced the superior fortune of studying from and functioning along with him.”
Erickson to lead NWS office
Roger Erickson has been named the new Meteorologist in Cost for the National Climate Support in Lake Charles. He replaces Andy Patrick, who retired.
Roger has labored in the NWS Lake Charles business office for 27 yrs as the warning coordination meteorologist, the place he led the instruction and outreach method. He has labored various significant-impact weather conditions situations, including major Hurricanes Rita (2005) and Laura (2020).
Center welcomes board associates
The Southwest Louisiana Law Centre is proud to welcome Shonda Manuel, Duane Piranio, and Brandon Lestage as its newest board customers.
A lifelong resident of Lake Charles and graduate of McNeese State College in visible arts, Manuel is a lover at Wholesome Picture Advertising and serves as its affiliate resourceful director. Her profession has spanned in excess of 20 several years, and she has gained several promoting awards for graphic structure and pictures.
Passionate about the metropolis that has elevated her, Manuel serves on numerous boards these as the Lake Charles/SWLA Convention & Readers Board of Directors, Christus LiveWell Advisory Council, Sowela Electronic Arts & Conversation Advisory Board and the SWLA Youth Foundation. She is a graduate of the Chamber Leadership method and has also been identified as a “Thriving 30-Something” for Thrive magazine.
When not doing the job or volunteering, she is a Les Mills-accredited Physique Pump and Physique Overcome instructor and teaches team conditioning lessons at Club4In shape. She has been married to Chris Manuel for 20 yrs and they have two teenage children, Aiden and Reese.
Piranio is a licensed geologist doing work as an environmental specialist in Lake Charles. Born and raised in central Louisiana, his occupation led to many years of home in the Sultanate of Oman and numerous japanese American states before returning to Louisiana in 2003. In addition to board support with The SWLA Legislation Middle, he serves on the SWLA Financial Progress Alliance Environmental Affairs Committee and is president-elect of the Lake Charles Happy Hour Rotary Club. He is also a 2010 graduate of the SWLA Financial Improvement Alliance Leadership Course.
Piranio enjoys touring, checking out the outdoor, and shelling out time with his wife, Amanda White, and doppelganger son, Henry.
Lestage was born in DeRidder, and is a resident of Lake Charles. He attended McNeese Point out College, where he received his bachelor’s degree in small business administration. Upon graduation, he commenced his banking vocation as a industrial lender with Very first Countrywide Lender of DeRidder.
He and his spouse, Caryn, bought married in 2018 and welcomed their son Henry to the globe in August 2021.
Together with the SWLA Regulation Centre, Lestage is also an active member of Fusion Five, SWLA Youth Foundation, and Louisiana High Faculty Sports Officers Association.
White named VP of company affairs
Mona White has been named vice president for business enterprise affairs at McNeese State University.
White has served as the university’s chief fiscal officer given that 2001 and was accountable for taking care of and supervising all of the university’s accounting capabilities including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll and income management, planning annual fiscal reports and performing with the Legislative Auditor’s Office to assure compliance with all regulatory needs.
As vice president for small business affairs, White will be responsible for all administrative accounting and spending budget capabilities, the Place of work of Human Methods and Pupil Employment, Office of Obtaining and Residence Manage and the University Bookstore.
White has more than 30 years of monetary and accounting practical experience and worked in the health and fitness treatment marketplace ahead of becoming a member of McNeese. She earned a bachelor’s diploma in accounting from McNeese.
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