Adding the killer’s voice just pads an already too-long book.
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Maren Longbella,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
Not to say there aren’t some clunkers, most notably a jokey take-me-out-to-the-ballgame baseball number that pads the second act, but the Flaherty-Ahrens score was and is Ragtime‘s signature achievement.
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