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Ragtime

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Ragtime	label	Ragtime
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Ragtime	comment	Ragtime is a 1975 historical fiction novel by E. L. Doctorow. It takes place in and around New York City between 1900 and 1917, and follows three fictional American families whose lives intersect with those of various major historical figures from the time, such as Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman, Booker T. Washington, Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan. The three families are: an upper-class WASP family from New Rochelle, consisting of a grandfather, a father, a mother, their son, and the mother's younger brother; a talented young black pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr., his girlfriend Sarah, and their son; and a Jewish Eastern European immigrant and his young daughter. It is written with a ridiculous amount of detail, approaching Tolkienesque levels.In 1981 it was adapted into a film version, written by Michael Weller and Bo Goldman and directed by Miloš Forman. The film, which starred James Cagney, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Brad Dourif, Elizabeth McGovern, Mandy Patinkin, and Mary Steenburgen (among others), was nominated for eight Academy Awards.It was further adapted into a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. The original cast included Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald and Marin Mazzie. It was nominated for twelve Tony awards, and won four: Best Featured Actress (McDonald), Original Score, Book, and Orchestrations. A revival of the musical opened on Broadway on November 15, 2009 after transferring from a successful regional production located in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. It closed January 15, 2010.
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Ragtime / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Ragtime / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Sarah, Coalhouse, Father, and Grandfather. Also Younger Brother in the novel. However, Father and Grandfather's deaths are only mentioned in the epilogue.
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Ragtime / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Ragtime / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Averted; the book features numerous public figures from the 1920s and is not shy about putting them in compromising positions.
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Ragtime / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Ragtime / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD / BSoD Song: "Coalhouse's Soliloquy".
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Ragtime / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Ragtime / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Done by Father to Edgar in the musical during "What a Game", when the latter won't stop repeating the vulgar (for the time) language of the other baseball fans.
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Ragtime / int_1d8733d3	type	Overly Narrow Superlative
Ragtime / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: "And although the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906... and there were ninety-four years to go!"
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Ragtime / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Ragtime / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In the book (and held true in the musical), Coalhouse genuinely means it when he says he's going to surrender once his men are safely away, and follows through. In the film, the promise is just a ploy to get his men out and his real plan is to blow the library up once the others are clear, and it's only at the last second that he can't bring himself to go through with it. While neither villain nor hero in either case, Evelyn Nesbit is treated much more kindly by the book (where she helps Tateh's daughter and talks to Emma Goldman about how men have dominated her life) than in the musical, where she exists only to serve as a bad example of a shallow woman gleeful at the chaos around her.
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Ragtime / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Ragtime / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Sarah attempts to kill her baby by burying it after Coalhouse abandoned her.
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Ragtime / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Ragtime / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Or Quadralingual. "A Shtetl is Amerike" has three separate parts, being sung at the same time. The languages are Yiddish, Italian, and Creole.
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Ragtime / int_29b218b4	type	In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous
Ragtime / int_29b218b4	comment	In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous
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Ragtime / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Ragtime / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Coalhouse after Sarah's death.
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Ragtime / int_2e8875f0	type	Misplaced Retribution
Ragtime / int_2e8875f0	comment	Misplaced Retribution: Coalhouse focuses his Roaring Rampage of Revenge on Willie Conklin and the fire department, blaming them for Sarah's death, while completely disregarding the cops who actually killed her.
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Ragtime / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Ragtime / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Quite literally, as the Coalhouses are black terrorists.
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Ragtime / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Ragtime / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Emma Goldman doesn't appear in the film.
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Ragtime / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Ragtime / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: The book is ridiculously detailed.
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Ragtime / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Ragtime / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Younger Brother during the first half of book.
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Ragtime / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Ragtime / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Coalhouse and Sarah are dead, with none of the injustices that led to their fates being avenged. Father and Grandfather both die later on. Despite all the pain in the show, it will be several decades before any semblance of hope for racial harmony will arrive. However, Younger Brother continues being a revolutionary, Tateh and Mother marry and form a happy family with themselves, their children, and Coalhouse's son, and it's implied that Coalhouse and Sarah are watching their son grow up together from the afterlife.
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Ragtime / int_47b6a1e5	type	"Just Joking" Justification
Ragtime / int_47b6a1e5	comment	"Just Joking" Justification: Willie Conklin claims that the incident of him and his team trashing Coalhouse's car was just a joke, even accusing Coalhouse himself for lacking a sense of humor.
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Ragtime / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Ragtime / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Tateh's wife is dead before the musical starts.
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Ragtime / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
Ragtime / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking Is Love: Evelyn and Younger Brother become a couple after she discovers he's been stalking her. In the musical, though, she rewards him with a kiss and then brushes him off as too poor for her.
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Ragtime / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Ragtime / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: During "He Wanted To Say" in the musical:
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Ragtime / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Ragtime / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: At different times in The Musical everyone behaves as if they were a third-person narrator.
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Ragtime / int_52c0c7cf	type	Motive Decay
Ragtime / int_52c0c7cf	comment	Motive Decay: Coalhouse goes from seeking reparations for his car to terrorizing the city of New York as revenge for Sarah's death. Lampshaded in the narration, where Booker T. Washington explains that Coalhouse choosing a target so wholly unconnected with his stated grievances was regarded as proof of his insanity.
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Ragtime / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Ragtime / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The prologue/epilogue.
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Ragtime / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Ragtime / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The musical gives the Little Boy a name (Edgar) for the sole reason that the playwrights found it too difficult to write around the lack of one.
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Ragtime / int_6836fbcb	type	All Musicals Are Adaptations
Ragtime / int_6836fbcb	comment	All Musicals Are Adaptations
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Ragtime / int_6f7c8268	type	Waif Prophet
Ragtime / int_6f7c8268	comment	Waif Prophet: Male variation, with the little boy who sees World War I coming, and keeps trying to tell people Harry Houndini that he needs to save Franz Ferdinand.
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Ragtime / int_714741cc	type	Like Reality, Unless Noted
Ragtime / int_714741cc	comment	Like Reality, Unless Noted: Everything in the book is amazingly realistic to the time period, except for the fact that The Little Boy (Edgar) is somehow psychic.
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Ragtime / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
Ragtime / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: The character known only as the Little Boy in the novel is named Edgar in the musical because the script-writers found it too difficult to write the story without him having a name (they named him after E.L. Doctorow)
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Ragtime / int_74149c93	type	Epic Rocking
Ragtime / int_74149c93	comment	Epic Rocking: "Till We Reach That Day", "New Music", "Journey On", "Make Them Hear You", and the reprise of "Wheels of a Dream" in the epilogue.
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Ragtime / int_78e8eba5	type	"I Am" Song
Ragtime / int_78e8eba5	comment	"I Am" Song: "Back to Before" straddles the line between this and an "I Am Becoming" Song. "Sarah Brown Eyes" is something of a retroactive one, as it's a flashback to the night Coalhouse and Sarah met, but at the point in the show where it appears, Sarah is already dead.
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Ragtime / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Ragtime / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: From Younger Brother to Father: "You are a complacent man with no thought of history! You have traveled everywhere and learned nothing! I despise you."
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Ragtime / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Ragtime / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: In the musical, Tateh is a widower deeply mourning the loss of his beloved wife, who died before the family emigrated to America. In the book, his wife is in fact alive and well and came to America with them. The foreman of the factory where all three work gives her extra shifts in exchange for sex, which she very reluctantly agrees to in order to keep the family from starving; when she finally tells Tateh, he is disgusted (with her, not with the foreman) and throws her out, telling their daughter that she has died and taking up the role of widower.
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Ragtime / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
Ragtime / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: "Goodbye My Love"/"Journey On" and "Wheels of a Dream". Also Coalhouse's part of "New Music".
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Ragtime / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Ragtime / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Mother suggests a couple of times (most notably in "Back To Before") that she's spent her married life as this, but we don't see much of her until after Father leaves, which is the catalyst for her to begin developing her own identity again, growing more and more independent and farther and farther away from Father as the story goes on. By the time Father comes back, she's come too far to be willing go back to the way things were.
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Ragtime / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Ragtime / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Coalhouse's plot. There are a lot of people involved with very convoluted motives and values that are neither all good or all bad, but the firemen responsible for trashing the car are still clear villains, as they destroyed Coalhouse's property just to put him in (what they saw as) his place and because they knew they could get away with it. In the musical, Coalhouse even acknowledges the gray aspect of his own actions in "Make Them Hear You".
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Ragtime / int_88472ef3	type	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
Ragtime / int_88472ef3	comment	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Younger Brother, until "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square". Then he goes kind of crazy with the newfound purpose. note That particular moment of transformation is only in the musical, but all of the variations have some version of Younger Brother finding his purpose with Coalhouse's group.
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Ragtime / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Ragtime / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Younger Brother for Evelyn Nesbit.
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Ragtime / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Ragtime / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Sarah's death is the first of many in the last 15 chapters of the book.
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Ragtime / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
Ragtime / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: Sarah's.
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Ragtime / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
Ragtime / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: Sarah dies this way.
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Ragtime / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Ragtime / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Since Fire Chief Will Conklin is the closest thing to a villain in the show, he breaks down first in "Coalhouse Demands" and even more in "Look What You've Done".
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Ragtime / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Ragtime / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: After Mother explains to Edgar that Tateh having a rope on his daughter is due to his fear of losing her, she notes that all parents fear losing their children — most just don't show it in such a visible way.
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Ragtime / int_99404851	type	Ladykiller in Love
Ragtime / int_99404851	comment	Ladykiller in Love: Coalhouse with Sarah. Their initial split was because he was a womanizer (in the musical, Sarah says he "had other ladies"), but it's clear right from his first appearance that he sees Sarah as his One True Love.
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Ragtime / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Ragtime / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Sarah's song "Your Daddy's Son".
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Ragtime / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Ragtime / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title
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Ragtime / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Ragtime / int_a4c37cbe	comment	"What a Game" is a lighthearted sequence sandwiched between two much more grim scenes, and as such it's Mood Whiplash at both the transition in and the transition out. Justified up to a point since giving the audience a break from the heaviness of the second act is probably to the benefit of the show, but the transition is still extremely abrupt on both ends.
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Ragtime / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Ragtime / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Of a sort. Emma Goldman's role in the novel is not insubstantial, but her actions are largely peripheral to the larger story (such that she was able to be completely written out of the film). In the musical, a speech from her is the catalyst for Younger Brother's transition from bored rich kid to social activist, and also serves as a narrator for plot points related to Tateh's ordeal and Younger Brother's activism.
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Ragtime / int_ad66049e	type	Inspiration Nod
Ragtime / int_ad66049e	comment	Inspiration Nod: Coalhouse's name is a Shout-Out to Michael Kohlhaas.
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Ragtime / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Ragtime / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Evelyn Nesbit is this in-universe.
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Ragtime / int_b29cc937	type	Sidekick Song
Ragtime / int_b29cc937	comment	Sidekick Song: "What a Game", "Crime of the Century". "Atlantic City" is a semi-subversion.
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Ragtime / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Ragtime / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: A mild case. While she does still get a few moments in the spotlight, Evelyn Nesbit's role in the musical is cut down significantly compared to both the book and the film. The Little Boy is a much less central character in the film than he is in either the book or the musical.
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Ragtime / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Ragtime / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The majority of the plot takes place in New York and the surrounding area.
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Ragtime / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Ragtime / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Coalhouse becomes this after Sarah's death.
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Ragtime / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Ragtime / int_c2393191	comment	"Crime Of The Century" is this not only for purposes of the show, but also in-universe, where it's framed as part of a vaudeville act.
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Ragtime / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Coalhouse in the immediate aftermath of Sarah's death, leading into the first notes of "'Til We Reach That Day". It works. Father gets to have one as well at the end of the play, when Coalhouse steps outside the library with his hands up, only to be gunned down.
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Ragtime / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: More common than not. Father, Mother, (Mother's) Younger Brother, Grandfather, Tateh (which is just the Yiddish word for "father"), and the Little Girl. In fact, other than the historical figures, the only two characters with actual names are Coalhouse and Sarah; Tateh takes on the stage name "Baron Ashkenazy" for his film career, but it's never stated one way or the other whether that's his real last name. note The surname "Ashkenazy" is one that's been found in Jewish populations, and specifically those who originated from Russia and surrounding countries, so it's possible. It almost might as well be a Nameless Narrative. The Little Boy is also this for the book and the film, but is Named by the Adaptation for The Musical, given the name "Edgar" after E.L. Doctorow. Word of God says this was because it was too difficult to address him without a name.
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Ragtime / int_d0c780d9	type	Rich Kid Turned Social Activist
Ragtime / int_d0c780d9	comment	Rich Kid Turned Social Activist: After a life of Rich Boredom, the "Brother" of the play's archetypal wealthy white family finds a purpose for his life when he happens to stumble into a socialist rally led by activist Emma Goldman, a Historical Domain Character. Her speech awakens him to the reality of race and class struggles in early 20th Century New York, and he abandons his family and life of comfort to join the revolt led by black protagonist Coalhouse Walker.
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Ragtime / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Ragtime / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Booker T. Washington to Coalhouse in "Look What You've Done".
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Ragtime / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Ragtime / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: J.P. Morgan.
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Ragtime / int_e25ae563	type	Final Love Duet
Ragtime / int_e25ae563	comment	Final Love Duet: Subverted. "Sarah Brown Eyes" is a flashback.
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Ragtime / int_e2e4edb2	type	Yiddish as a Second Language
Ragtime / int_e2e4edb2	comment	Yiddish as a Second Language: Makes sense, considering Tateh's Jewish.
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Ragtime / int_f1007689	type	"I Am Becoming" Song
Ragtime / int_f1007689	comment	"I Am Becoming" Song: "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square", "What Kind of Woman", and parts of "New Music". "Coalhouse's Soliloquy" is a dark example.
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Ragtime / int_f16f631d	type	Crowd Song
Ragtime / int_f16f631d	comment	Crowd Song: The show uses a number of them for storytelling. "'Til we Reach That Day" is the most famous one. "Crime Of The Century" is this not only for purposes of the show, but also in-universe, where it's framed as part of a vaudeville act.
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Ragtime / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Ragtime / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The epilogue of The Musical.
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Ragtime / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Ragtime / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: "Coalhouse's Soliloquy" is this for "Prologue: Ragtime", "Wheels of a Dream" (though it then gets a light reprise also), and "Your Daddy's Son" (though the original was already dark, the reprise is much darker).
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Ragtime / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Ragtime / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The original Broadway production of the musical premiered in what was then known as the Ford Centre For the Performing Arts, so naturally there is an extended musical number extolling the wonders of Henry Ford's assembly line and the Model T. This would also explain why Henry Ford's more unsavory characteristics—in particular his feelings about Jews—are glossed over.
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