Ragtime (musical) - Songs

Songs

Act I
  • Prologue: Ragtime –
  • "Goodbye, My Love" –
  • "Journey On" –
  • "The Crime of the Century" ‡ –
  • "What Kind of Woman" –
  • "A Shtetl iz Amereke" –
  • "Success" –
  • "His Name Was Coalhouse Walker" –
  • "Gettin' Ready Rag" –
  • "Henry Ford" ‡ –
  • "Nothing Like the City" –
  • "Your Daddy's Son" –
  • "The Courtship" –
  • "New Music" –
  • "Wheels of a Dream" –
  • "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square" ‡ –
  • "Gliding" –
  • "The Trashing of the Car" –
  • "Justice" –
  • "President" –
  • "Till We Reach That Day" –
Act II
  • Entr'acte –
  • "Harry Houdini, Master Escapist" ≠ –
  • "Coalhouse's Soliloquy" –
  • "Coalhouse Demands" –
  • "What a Game" –
  • "Fire in the City" –
  • "New Music (Reprise)" –
  • "Atlantic City" ‡ –
  • "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc." –
  • "Our Children" –
  • "Harlem Nightclub" –
  • "Sarah Brown Eyes" –
  • "He Wanted to Say" ‡ –
  • "Back to Before" –
  • "Look What You've Done" –
  • "Make Them Hear You" –
  • Epilogue: Ragtime / "Wheels of a Dream" (reprise) –


  • ‡ shortened in the 2009 revival
  • ≠ excised from the 2009 revival

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