"The Broadway revival of Ragtime, which opens Thursday night at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, paints a picture of an early-20th century America grappling with immense change and in the year since this production debuted at the New York City Center, it's more pertinent than ever. That's been a pretty crazy discovery, says Caissie Levy, 44. Just to sit in this moment in time in American history and in world history and see how the show is landing for people."
"We meet her in a very secure place in her life where she thinks she knows who she is and she thinks she knows what life is all about, Levy says of her character. And then these series of events happen where she is meeting people that she wouldn't necessarily normally meet, and she's reacting to the world in front of her, and she's being changed by people. Her horizons are being broadened, and she starts to question her belief system"
The Broadway revival of Ragtime opens at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater and revisits early-20th-century America amid profound social change. The production, based on E.L. Doctorow's 1975 novel, intertwines white suburban New Yorkers, Harlem's Black community, and Eastern European immigrants. Caissie Levy portrays Mother, a woman whose social conscience awakens as she encounters people outside her class and racial circle and confronts her husband's resistance. Her experience broadens her horizons, prompts questions of belief and inspires solidarity. The staging moved from an out-of-town tryout near Toronto to a debut at New York City Center before arriving on Broadway.
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