Various Artists

The Original 1998 Broadway Cast Recording of Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty's Tony Award-winning epic musical Ragtime - based on E.L. Doctorow's novel and starring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Marin Mazzie, Mark Jacoby, Peter Friedman, and Judy Kaye - comes to vinyl for the first time.  Masterworks Broadway's 3-LP set, housed in a hardbound slipcase, features each disc pressed on 180-gram red, white, and blue vinyl, respectively, as well as a 20-page stitched, oversized booklet with new liner notes and track-by-track commentary by Ahrens and Flaherty, an interview with Mitchell, recording session photos, and the complete album libretto.