Ragtime · Musical
Songs in Ragtime
This page features the songs from Ragtime. Song cards link to details such as style, context, vocal notes, and audition cut suggestions when available. Explore the list below to access song guides.
Act One
- Prologue: Ragtime – Company
- Goodbye, My Love – Mother
- Journey On – Father, Mother, and Tateh
- The Crime of the Century – Evelyn Nesbit and Company
- What Kind of Woman – Mother, Kathleen, Little Boy, Younger Brother
- A Shtetl iz Amereke – Immigrants
- Success – Tateh, J.P. Morgan, Harry Houdini, Emma Goldman, and Company
- His Name Was Coalhouse Walker –Coalhouse and Company
- Gettin' Ready Rag – Coalhouse and Company
- Henry Ford - Henry Ford and Company (this song was cut from the 2009 revival)
- Nothing Like the City – Mother, Edgar, Tateh, and Little Girl
- Your Daddy's Son – Sarah
- The Courtship – Mother, Younger Brother, Grandfather, Brigit, and Company
- New Music – Father, Mother, Younger Brother, Coalhouse, Sarah, and Company
- Wheels of a Dream – Coalhouse and Sarah
- The Night that Goldman Spoke at Union Square - Younger Brother, Emma Goldman, and Company (this song was cut from the 2009 revival)
- Gliding – Tateh
- The Trashing of the Car – Orchestra
- Justice – Coalhouse and Company
- President – Sarah
- Till We Reach That Day – Sarah's Friend and Company
Act Two
- Entr'acte – Orchestra
- Harry Houdini, Master Escapist – Harry Houdini and Edgar
- Coalhouse's Soliloquy – Coalhouse
- Coalhouse Demands – Coalhouse, Booker T. Washington, and Company
- What a Game – Father, Edgar, and Men
- Fire in the City – Orchestra
- New Music (Reprise) – Father
- Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. – Tateh
- Our Children – Mother and Tateh
- Harlem Nightclub – Orchestra
- Sarah Brown Eyes – Coalhouse and Sarah
- Back to Before – Mother
- Look What You've Done – Booker T. Washington and Company
- Make Them Hear You – Coalhouse
- Epilogue: Ragtime / Wheels of a Dream (reprise) – Company
A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number.