![]() Coalhouse and Sarah are inspired by the words of activist Booker T. ![]() Father grapples how much he has missed and how unsure he is of the changing world. Mother, Younger Brother, Sarah, and Coalhouse have formed a tight-knit bond, which upsets Father as he comes home. Coalhouse tells her about his plans to support his family playing ragtime, and Sarah and he reunite. Though Sarah turns him down at first, he persists courting her, eventually leading to Mother inviting him inside. Coalhouse finally makes it to the Family house and is shocked to learn he has a son. At the same time, Sarah thinks about how her heartbreak and fear led to the baby in her arms. On his way to Sarah, Coalhouse is accosted by a volunteer fire squad who are angered by the site of a black man driving his own car. When he learns she’s in New Rochelle, he comes up with a plan to win her back, starting with a visit to the Ford Factory to buy the new Model T. He thinks of the success immigrant Harry Houdini, and Tateh decides to sell his cart and try his luck somewhere else.Ĭoalhouse introduces his new music, called ragtime, and sings lovingly about Sarah, whom he can’t find after he broke her heart. When a wealthy stranger offers to buy her from him, Tateh is angered and becomes disgusted in his new country. As his Little Girl becomes sick, Tateh becomes desperate for money. Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island, and Tateh tries to make a living selling drawings on a cart on the street corner. She kisses him for the attention of the press, but doesn’t really have any interest in him.Īfter finding an African-American baby in her garden, Mother invites the child’s mother, Sarah, into the Family home, claiming responsibility for them, even though she knows her husband would not approve. He watches her perform and professes his love for her. ![]() Mother’s Younger Brother is always trying to find his passion, and for now it’s Evelyn Nesbit. Mother and Father say goodbye as he leaves on an expedition to the North Pole, leaving Mother alone for the first time in her life.His ship passes Tateh’s: Father thinks about how the immigrants “don’t have a chance” in his country, Tateh wonders why anyone would leave America. Washington and Emma Goldman, and entertainers Harry Houdini and Evelyn Nesbit, who became a star when her lover murdered her wealthy husband. Morgan and Henry Ford, activists Booker T. The only connections these communities have to each other are the celebrities they all know and read about: businessmen J.P. Lastly, Jewish immigrants moving into the tenements of the Lower East Side find their home, namely artist Tateh from Latvia and his young daughter. Next, in Harlem, is the African-American community, where the beautiful Sarah enjoys the new music of Coalhouse Walker, Jr. First, an upper-class white family from the wealthy suburb of New Rochelle: Mother, Father, Mother’s Younger Brother, Grandfather, and the Little Boy, Edgar. It’s New York City at the turn of the 20th century and three different communities welcome the audience to their world.
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