A Cult Musical Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary, This Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                           I knew "RAGS" was special the moment I first saw it, back in 1986!!!!!!!!  That cast, those songs!!!!!!!!!!  Judy Kuhn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I also knew it was too dark for a commercial Broadway run, but that Theater Queens, who always know, would give it an enduring life.

                                            I have seen two other productions of it in the intervening decades, and have been moved and transported, each time.  I have played the cast recording endlessly.

                                            And still no major revival!!!!!!!!!!!!  What about the reading Jessie Mueller did; surely "RAGS" is in her future????????  If she sang Rebecca, I am telling you, she would get another TONY Award.

                                             Why hasn't ENCORES done it???????  Don't they know how it would sell???????   And especially in this year!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                               "RAGS" seems to the musical everyone loves, but no one wants to do. Why?????????

                                                To not honor this show in New York City, on its 30th Anniversary, is a crime as large as not honoring the 75th Anniversary of "The Wizard Of Oz!!!!!!!!!!!" Which I have not forgotten, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                  So, please, someone this year give "RAGS" its due!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                   Meanwhile, here is the gold standard--the title song, albeit abbreviated--from the 1987 TONY Awards!  The show as nominated for Best Musical, but, alas, closed by then, and it was the year of "Les Miserables!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                                    And I agree--had Judy Kuhn been nominated for "RAGS," instead of "Les Miserables," she would have won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!