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3 performances only - June 10-11, 2022

Friday, June 10 - 7:30pm - SOLD OUT

Saturday, June 11 - 2:00pm - SOLD OUT

Saturday, June 11 - 7:30pm - SOLD OUT

All performances take place in the Jack Singer Concert Hall (Arts Commons).


For the first time in our history, three of Calgary’s largest arts organizations – Arts Commons, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Theatre Calgary – are joining forces for a special musical presentation with an important message for the world. Ragtime: A Concert Performance  will celebrate the power of music to explore the human spirit at the core of the most pressing social issues today, in the world premiere of a new adaptation by the acclaimed Boston Pops orchestra of this Tony Award-winning musical.

Ragtime follows three vastly different families in search of the American Dream in New York at the turn of the century: African Americans in Harlem, Eastern European immigrants in the Lower East Side, and upper-class Whites in New Rochelle come across historical figures like stage magician Harry Houdini, car tycoon Henry Ford, activist Booker T. Washington, and anarchist Emma Goldman as they navigate racism, class struggle, privilege, and police brutality.

Based on the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow and adapted for the stage by three of the most celebrated musical theatre writers of our time, Tony Award winners Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, and the late Terrence McNally, Ragtime was nominated for 13 and won four Tony Awards in 1998 and continues to grow in appreciation as a modern Broadway masterpiece.

Don’t miss this limited engagement of a one-of-a-kind concert directed by Theatre Calgary Artistic Director Stafford Arima and featuring the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Three performances only, June 10-11, 2022.


The music in Ragtime: A Concert Performance was created for the Boston Pops with support from the Cincinnati Symphony.

RAGTIME CONCERT VERSION is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

  • ORCHESTRATIONS
    WILLIAM DAVID BROHN
  • NEW ORCHESTRATIONS
    KIM SCHARNBERG
  • DIRECTOR
    STAFFORD ARIMA
  • MUSIC DIRECTOR, CONDUCTOR
    JAMES MOORE
  • ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
    SAMANTHA CURRIE
  • ASSISTANT MUSIC DIRECTOR
    MARK LIMACHER
  • COSTUME COORDINATOR
    MICHELLE LATTA
  • LIGHTING DESIGN
    SCOTT REID
  • SOUND DESIGN
    JOSHUA D. REID
  • PROJECTION DESIGN
    BETH KATES
  • REHEARSAL PIANIST
    JOE SLABE
  • STAGE MANAGER
    NIESA SILZER
  • ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
    EMMA BRAGER
  • YOUNG COMPANY CHAPERONE
    IAN RIEP

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Cast and Creative Team

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