Close To Home 'Ragtime' Travels Into The Historical Heart Of America. It's really beautiful and the cities are so interesting and different.
People are friendly.
Arriving in Tucson Tuesday for a week's run at the UA's Centennial Hall, the 1998 Broadway musical looks at the nation in the early years of the 20th century. E.L. Doctorow, the play's broad canvas limns racism, immigration, feminism, class, labor unionism and new technologies, topics none too common on the traditional musical stage. It intertwines the stories of a wealthy WASP family, a pair of black lovers from Harlem and an impoverished Jewish immigrant father and daughter. Their tales foretell not only the coming automobile age and the golden age of movies, but also the new multi-ethnic America. Fox plays a black woman, Sarah, whose life is derailed by a small racist act that snowballs.