September 8, 2026

Which Broadway musical, based on E. L. Doctorow's 1975 novel about early 20th-century America, had its European premiere in Cardiff in 2002, then transferred to London's Piccadilly Theatre in 2003, and was revived by Philadelphia's Arden Theatre in 2019?

A Ragtime
B Lazarus
C Matilda the Musical
D Stereophonic

Ragtime (music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, book by Terrence McNally) opened on Broadway in 1998 and won four Tony Awards. Its interlocking stories about a Jewish immigrant, an African American musician and a WASP family reflect the tensions of turn-of-the-century New York.

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