Rags: The New American Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
1991
MusicCharles StrouseLyricsStephen Schwartz
Book by Joseph Stein
A musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and a book by Joseph Stein, set on New York's Lower East Side in the early 1900s. It follows Rebecca, a Jewish immigrant from Russia who arrives at Ellis Island with her young son and tries to build a life while facing sweatshop labor, tenement poverty, and the pressures of assimilation.
1991
2020
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