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* SignatureSong: "Make Them Hear You" isn't just a rousing penultimate number for the musical, it's also easily its most iconic both in and out of context. It's not uncommon to hear the song played at protests and rallies completely divorced from the show itself.
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** A police captain is played by Creator/ChristopherMalcolm, who would later be best known for playing Justin in ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous''.
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She was only a girl
It will happen again!
It will happen again, and again, and again!"
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** The number of deaths of black people by police brutality, starting in the 90s from the Rodney King riots and given increased scrutiny from the Black Lives Matter movement in the 2010s and 2020s makes the song feel especially prophetic.
"There is blood on the ground
She was only a girl
It will happen again!
It will happen again, and again, and again!"
"There is blood on the ground
She was only a girl
It will happen again!
It will happen again, and again, and again!"
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* NightmareFuel: "There are causes to DIE for!"
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* ValuesDissonance: Evelyn Nesbit describes herself as Stanford White's former "lady friend" in "Crime of the Century." In RealLife, White had begun grooming Evelyn when she was 15 and he was 46, and initiated their "relationship" by raping her. [[labelnote:note]] All of the horrifying details of Evelyn's past with White came out during the trial, as well as Thaw's physical and sexual abuse toward her during their marriage; despite all of this information, newspapers sympathized with Thaw over Evelyn, arguing that he was justified in his anger that White had "ruined his wife" and Evelyn had kept it from him. [[/labelnote]]
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* ToughActToFollow: For many Creator/MarinMazzie is the only person to ever play Mother in the musical, despite there being many great actresses playing her people are still comparing them to Marin.
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** Coming out the same year as ''Theatre/TheLionKing'' meant it missed out on Best Musical.
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** Coming out the same year as ''Theatre/TheLionKing'' meant it missed out on Best Musical.It lost best musical to''Theatre/TheLionKing'', which has undergone a lot of HypeBacklash while Ragtime's stage adaptation has remained a more critically praised work.
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** The film version has many big names in some of their earliest roles. Creator/SamuelLJackson as a Gang Member, Debbie Allen as Sarah, Creator/JeffDaniels as PC O'Donnell, Creator/StuartMilligan as the Marksman, Creato/rElizabethMcGovern as Evelyn Nesbit, Creator/EthanPhilips as a Guard and Creator/AndreasKatsulas and Creator/JohnRatzenberger as Policemen.
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** The film version has many big names in some of their earliest roles. Creator/SamuelLJackson as a Gang Member, Debbie Allen as Sarah, Creator/JeffDaniels as PC O'Donnell, Creator/StuartMilligan as the Marksman, Creato/rElizabethMcGovern Creator/ElizabethMcGovern as Evelyn Nesbit, Creator/EthanPhilips Creator/EthanPhillips as a Guard and Creator/AndreasKatsulas and Creator/JohnRatzenberger as Policemen.
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** Coming out the same year as ''Theatre/TheLionKing'' meant it missed out on Best Musical.
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** Coming out the same year as ''Theatre/TheLionKing'' meant it missed out on Best Musical.
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* [[HoYay Les Yay]]: A certain scene in the novel where Emma Goldman gives Evelyn Nesbit a massage...
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** The film version has many big names in some of their earliest roles. Creator/SamuelLJackson as a Gang Member, Debbie Allen as Sarah, Jeff Daniels Creator/JeffDaniels as PC O'Donnell, Stuart Milligan Creator/StuartMilligan as the Marksman, Elizabeth McGovern Creato/rElizabethMcGovern as Evelyn Nesbit, Ethan Philips Creator/EthanPhilips as a Guard and Andreas Katsulas & John Ratzenberger Creator/AndreasKatsulas and Creator/JohnRatzenberger as Policemen.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The musical's "Till We Reach That Day" has a few moments that, if you didn't know it was written in 1996, would seem to be nods to events that occurred in the 2010s. The most striking is probably the description of the hoped-for world as one where "a child can play"; at least one of the faces at the center of the Black Lives Matter movement is that of a 12-year-old (Tamir Rice) who was fatally shot by police while playing in a park.
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* ValuesResonance: "Till We Reach That Day" is this with the increased attention to ongoing anti-black racism in the late 2000s and beyond, with certain lyrics even edging into HarsherInHindsight territory given how well they fit incidents that didn't happen until years after the musical was written.
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* AwardSnub: Coming out the same year as ''Theatre/TheLionKing'' meant it missed out on Best Musical.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Future ''Series/{{Glee}}'' cast member Lea Michele originated the role of Tateh's daughter on Broadway.
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** Future ''Series/{{Glee}}'' cast member Lea Michele originated the role of Tateh's daughter on Broadway.
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** The film version has many big names in some of their earliest roles. Creator/SamuelLJackson as a Gang Member, Debbie Allen as Sarah, Jeff Daniels as PC O'Donnell, Stuart Milligan as the Marksman, Elizabeth McGovern as Evelyn Nesbit, Ethan Philips as a Guard and Andreas Katsulas & John Ratzenberger as Policemen.
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* [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moment of Funny]]: "What a Game", and almost whenever Edgar or Grandfather say something.
* [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming]]: Pretty much anything involving Tateh. Especially "Gliding." ''*sniff*''
** "Sarah, my life has changed/Sarah, you've got to see/Sarah, we've got a son/SARAH, COME DOWN TO MEEEEE!"
* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music Of Awesome]]: "Ragtime", "Make Them Hear You." The entire musical, really. Except [[TheScrappy "The Crime of the Century.'']]
* [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming]]: Pretty much anything involving Tateh. Especially "Gliding." ''*sniff*''
** "Sarah, my life has changed/Sarah, you've got to see/Sarah, we've got a son/SARAH, COME DOWN TO MEEEEE!"
* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music Of Awesome]]: "Ragtime", "Make Them Hear You." The entire musical, really. Except [[TheScrappy "The Crime of the Century.'']]
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* {{Tearjerker}}: Almost any part of the show can turn on the waterworks post- "Nothing Like the City."
** You mean post-Prologue, right?
** You mean post-Prologue, right?
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music Of Awesome]]: "Ragtime", "Make Them Hear You." The entire musical, really. Except [[TheScrappy "The Crime of the Century.'']]
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* [=TearJerker=]: Almost any part of the show can turn on the waterworks post- "Nothing Like the City."
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* TooGoodToLast: The outstanding revival closed less than two months after opening.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: J.P. Morgan
* MotiveDecay: Coalhouse goes from seeking reparations for his car to terrorizing the city of New York as revenge for [[spoiler:Sarah's death.]]
** Lampshaded in the narration, where Booker T. Washington explains that Coalhouse choosing a target so wholly unconnected with his stated grievances was regarded as proof of his insanity.
* MotiveDecay: Coalhouse goes from seeking reparations for his car to terrorizing the city of New York as revenge for [[spoiler:Sarah's death.]]
** Lampshaded in the narration, where Booker T. Washington explains that Coalhouse choosing a target so wholly unconnected with his stated grievances was regarded as proof of his insanity.
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** Excuse me? "Crime of the Century" isn't awesome? [[Tropers/MindChips This troper]] [[YourMileageMayVary humbly begs to differ]]. ''[[CatchPhrase Wheeeee!]]''
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** Lampshaded in the narration, where Booker T. Washington explains that Coalhouse choosing a target so wholly unconnected with his stated grievances was regarded as proof of his insanity.
