Rags

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Recording Info

Recording Type: Commercial
Origin: Studio
Material Included: Musical Numbers Only
Date Recorded: March 24-25, 1987; April 1987; November, December 1989; March 1990

Credits

Staff

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Conductor
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Producer
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Chief Recording Engineer

Cast

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Rebecca Hershkowitz
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David, her ten-year-old son
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Nathan Hershkowitz (Harris), her husband
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Saul, a radical union organizer
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Bella Cohen, a seventeen-year-old immigrant, Rebecca's friend
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Avram, Bella's father
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Ben Levitowitz, a young immigrant in love with Bella
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Rachel, a plump widow with her eye on Avram
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Homesick Immigrant
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Cynical Americans
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Klezmer Leader
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Rosa, a co-worker in Rebecca's sweatshop
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A Yiddish Hamlet
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Irish Tenor, on the gramophone
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"Big Tim" Sullivan, a Tammany politician
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Frankie, a Tammany politician
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Mike, a Tammany politician
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Sophie Tucker
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Morris
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Morris's Mother
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Ensemble
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Additional Ensemble for Recording

Track List

Tracks

  • Overture .... Orchestra
  • I Remember / Greenhorns .... Homesick Immigrants, Guards, New Immigrants, Cynical Americans, Rebecca and Recruiter
  • Brand New World .... Rebecca and David
  • Children of the Wind .... Rebecca
  • Penny a Tune .... Klezmer Musicians, Rachel, Sweatshop Workers, Rebecca, Rosa, Bella, Ben and David
  • Easy for You .... Rebecca, Saul and David
  • Hard to Be a Prince .... David, Yiddish Theater Hamlet and Other Actors
  • Blame It on the Summer Night .... Rebecca
  • For My Mary .... Ben and Irish Tenor
  • Rags .... Avram and Bella
  • What's Wrong With That? .... "Big Tim" Sullivan, Frankie, Nathan and Mike
  • Nothing Will Hurt Us Again .... Rebecca, David and Nathan
  • Entr'acte .... Orchestra
  • Cherry Streets Café .... Sophie Tucker
  • Yankee Boy .... Nathan, David and Neighbors
  • Uptown .... Nathan and Rebecca
  • Wanting .... Rebecca and Saul
  • Three Sunny Rooms .... Rachel and Avram
  • The Sound of Love ..... David, Ben, Morris's Mother, Morris and Shoppers
  • Kaddish .... David, Rebecca, Avram and Men
  • Bread and Freedom / Dancing With the Fools ..... Rosa, Rebecca, Strikers and Nathan
  • Finale .... David, Rebecca, Cynical Americans and New Immigrants

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Recording Info

Recording Type: Commercial
Origin: Studio
Material Included: Musical Numbers Only
Date Recorded: March 24-25, 1987; April 1987; November, December 1989; March 1990

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