When Broadway dreams collide with Doctorow's America — the chaos behind the curtain.
A documentary exploring the creation of the new musical Ragtime, based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow.
Direction
Galati's vision meets Smith's fly-on-wall intimacy.
Production
Watching $10 million materialize from script to stage.
Writing
Ahrens and Flaherty baring their process — rare magic.
Director
Colin Smith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was filmed during the show's disastrous Toronto tryout, before $5M in emergency rewrites saved it from Broadway oblivion.
Drabinsky's Livent empire collapsed in 1998 due to massive accounting fraud — making his scenes here a time capsule of hubris.
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