

Hufnagel then dove into why he thinks the audiences will respond positively to the musical. For seniors (60 years-old and up) and students with IDs, tickets will be $18. On July 15 & 22, the show will be at 2:30 p.m. I thought it would be great to be able to do that in the Middle Georgia area with Perry’s Players this year.” The first show that I ever directed was at Houston County High School in my sophomore year and Ragtime was the show I directed, so I actually gained a fascination with the piece in high school when I directed it. "It was my idea to choose Ragtime,” explained Hufnagel.

Hufnagel said the majority of the actors in the volunteer organization are from the Houston County/Middle Georgia area and include a mixture of students, working parents, and adults. Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White, Evelyn Nesbit, Emma Goldman, and others.

Historical figures throughout the play include people like Harry Houdini, Booker T. During the 20th century, African-Americans were represented by Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a Harlem musician, upper class suburbanites were represented by Mother, the matriarch of a white upper-class family in New Rochelle, New York, and Eastern European immigrants were represented by Tateh, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia. Doctorow, ‘Ragtime’ tells the story of three groups in the United States in the early 20th-century. We are extremely excited to put it on this year.”īased on the 1975 book written by E.L. "We have over 50 people in the cast and we have some of the best talent in Middle Georgia in this show I believe. Ragtime is our annual summer musical and it’s our biggest show of the year,” said the Perry Players’ Director, Hunter Hufnagel. "We do seven shows a year at Perry Players. Perry Players’ Community Theatre is set to deliver their second performance of the theatre’s 2018-2019 season with "Ragtime: The Musical.”
