![]() “There are the affluent families from New Rochelle (N.Y.) that represent the people who have made it in America. Humrichouser said that there are three different groups in “Ragtime.” She’s in love with Coalhouse, who is a ragtime piano player, and it ends up that she ends up leaving him because he’s cheating on her, unfortunately, and she has a baby by him, and that sort of takes off events with her and Coalhouse and whether or not they’re going to continue to love each other and be together and what their American dream is,” she said. “Sarah’s kind of a very complicated character. In “Ragtime” she plays the role of Sarah. He grew up in Detroit, Mich., and now resides in New York City where he works as a director and actor.Įrica Durham, originally from Pittsburgh, Pa., just graduated from Penn State University. Humrichouser is in his 23rd year at Wagon Wheel, having been in or directed over 50 productions. The show takes place in 1906, and here we are in 2016 – 110 years and the same story just a different decade, a different century,” Humrichouser said. It’s very topical with what’s happening now in the world. He starts in the tenements and then works his way up and through a plot of challenges and a lot of racism, a lot of adversity. In “Ragtime,” Tony Humrichouser plays Tateh, a Jewish Latvian immigrant that arrives in America with his daughter after his wife’s passing. Wagon Wheel Center for the Arts is presenting the show through July 9. While the musical “Ragtime” is set in the early 20th century, the themes in it are just as relative today – immigration, racism, love, relationships and change.
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