Ragtime.

12-9-25 SHORT HILLS: It’s been cold, unusually cold, with actual temps at night in the teens. Vermont is even colder. We are headed there the end of the week after they get mid-week snow. We will be there through Xmas with many guests, and our usual Xmas day party, Judy’s triumph.

We saw the new production of ‘Ragtime’ Saturday at the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center. I read the book by E. L. Doctorow years ago, and we have seen either the movie or previous stage productions. This one is a knockout. Set in 1906, it is relevant today re immigration and racial prejudice. The three principles, Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, and Brandon Uranowitz playing Coalhouse Walker jr., Mother, and Tateh got standing O’s. Making cameos are Admiral Peary, Houdini, Emma Goldman, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington and others. My hearing aids set at ’T-coil’ worked perfectly to amplify the sound. 

I guess, like kids who want the same bedtime story repeated every night, adults also like their favorites repeated.

We had dinner with Lynn and Bill Sunday at T of A. 

We had a dusting of snow that disappeared by noon.

We haven't been to Lincoln Center for a while.

The Met looks almost the same.

Ragtime poster, yopu can just make pout the reflection of the photographer.

The reflecting pool doing its job.

Theatre goer in the cold.

Warming up inside. There is not a bad seat in this ampitheatre.