Epilogue: Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise) Original Broadway Cast of Ragtime: The Musical

[LITTLE BOY, spoken]
The era of ragtime had run out, as if history were no more than a tune on a player piano. But we did not know that then. 

[YOUNGER BROTHER, spoken]
After Coalhouse Walker's death, Younger Brother drove south to Mexico, where he joined the great peasant revolutionary, Emiliano Zapata. 

[ENSEMBLE]
La, la la la la

[EMMA GOLDMAN, spoken]
The signs of the coming World War were everywhere. The anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested again, of course, but this time she would be deported as well. 

[ENSEMBLE]
Ooh, ooh

[BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, spoken]
Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute became, in time, the center of black America. When he died, flags were flown at half-mast. President and Mrs. Wilson attended his funeral. 

[ENSEMBLE]
La, la la la la

[GRANDFATHER, spoken]
Grandfather resided now in a cemetery. At last, peace and quiet. 

[EVELYN NESBIT, spoken]
The passionate and beautiful Evelyn Nesbit would lose her looks and fall into obscurity. Whee!