Pensacola Little Theatre wraps up season with Ragtime

Pensacola Little Theatre will present as its Mainstage Theatre Series season finale, the Tony award-winning musical, Ragtime, June 17 19 & 23 26.

The epic musical by the awardwinning composer/lyricist team Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens paints a nostalgic and powerful portrait of life in turn of the century America. Based on E. L.

Doctorow’s distinguished novel, the musical intertwines three distinct stories that poignantly illustrate history’s timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and love and hate.

The production’s score draws upon traditional Jewish folk sounds to color the haunting music of the immigrants, Vaudeville’s outrageous style to capture the spectacle of Evelyn Nesbit, and Joplin and Jazz to invoke the enlivened spirit of Harlem.

Pensacola Little Theatre’s production of Ragtime is directed by award-winning director and PLT’S Artistic Director, Ron Roston with choreography by Roy Bracken and Michael Dennis and music direction by Rosemary Ramsey Pearce.

Ragtime stars Micah Roland as “Coalhouse,” Colecta Johnson as “Sarah,” LaPora Johnson as “Sarah’s Friend,” Chris Blackmon as “Henson,” Michael Dedmon as “Tateh,” John Bauer as “Younger Brother,” Sheryl VandenBerg as “Mother,” Wes Shoemaker as “Father,” Thad Kopec as “Gramps,” Michael Smith as “Little Boy,” Anna Kirkpatrick as “Little Girl,” Allison Goldberg as “Brigit,” Danny Seibert as “Willie Conklin,” Andy W. Davis as “Stanford White,” Roy Bracken as “J. P. Morgan,” Chester Delacruz as “Henry Ford,” Christina McAlpine as “Evelyn Nesbit’” Mark Peters as “Harry K. Thaw,” Rachel Rose as “Emma Goldman,” Russell Spears as “Booker T. Washington,” Jim Vail as “Houdini,” Jim Poule as “Admiral Peary.” The show features a large ensemble cast with Allison Bailey, Nielah Black, Michele Edge Green, Meghan Erlacher, Gabrielle GogartyWilson, Julia Green, Brooke Hardy, Sydney Hunt, Chris Lotito, Evangelina Malamo, Christina McAlpine, Jeff Marshall, Lydia Maumenee, Taylor Morgan, MaryCatherine Morning, Ricky Morning, Sherron Moore, Patty Norrbom, Marc Prince, Andrea Rausch, Fallon Roberts, Rebecca Swanson, Juanita Taylor, Christine Tebo, Ebony Thompson, Sarah Walters and Laura Whiteside.

Ragtime will show at the Pensacola Little Theatre, June 17 19 & 23 26, 2005; Friday and Saturday performances at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 23rd at 8 p.m.

All performances are at the Pensacola Cultural Center, 400 S.

Jefferson Street, in historic downtown Pensacola.

For tickets, call PLT Box Office, charge by telephone at 850432-2042, or purchase on-line at www.pensacolalittletheatre.com.