![]() After securing McNally for the book, Drabinsky invited 10 of the most popular composers of the time to send in auditions for the chance to write the budding musical’s libretto. ![]() Doctorow felt McNally’s 60-page adaptation truly honored his novel. In December of 1993, Broadway Producer and theater owner Garth Drabinsky, took Doctorow out to lunch in order to convince him that a musical version of Ragtime would do better justice to the complexities of the novel’s truth than the movie adaptation did.Īfter getting Doctorow’s approval, Drabinsky commissioned playwright Terrence McNally to write a script based on the novel. How did Ragtime go from being an almost 200-page novel to a Tony award-winning musical? Well, it took a movie adaptation that Doctorow disapproved of, lunch at the Russian Tea Room, and one very convincing Broadway Producer. Post 2: The Creation of Ragtimethe Musical Doctorow Mastered the Art of Melding Fact with Fiction Doctorow Dies at 84 Literary Time Traveler Stirred Past Into Fiction From one image to another, I was off the wall and in a book.” E.L. And then I imagined what things looked like from the bottom of the hill. I began to write about the wall, and I realized that this house was the first house on the hill built at that time. And I was staring at the wall, and had arranged my desk so that the only way out was through the sentences.
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