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From: The Village Voice
Date: 19980203
Author:Feingold, Michael
Ragtime
By Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty
Based on the novel by E. L Doctorow Ford Center for the Performing Arts Broadway and 42nd Street 307-4550
June Moon
By Ring Lardner and Gorge S. Kaufman Variety Arts Theatre llO Third Avenue 239-6200
Ragtime makes me recall a parallel piece of history: After the golden age of European light opera, the era of Offenbach, Sullivan, and Johann Strauss, there camee an inevitable letdown; their successors were pallid mediocrities like Lecoq and Sidney Jones. But musical entertainment, like the rest of human life, runs in cycles, ...
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