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Make Them Hear You, Kid
Jan 01, 2019
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This is about a song called “Make Them Hear You,” and a boy named Rory Leech. I’ll tell you about the song, and I’ll let Rory tell you the rest.

The song, from the musical Ragtime, was written for the character of Coalhouse Walker, Jr., an African American man who urges the members of his gang to protest racial injustice peacefully, even though he himself will end up its martyr. It was the penultimate song in the show.

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Lynn Ahrens 
Lynn Ahrens 

won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Score of Broadway’s Ragtime. She was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes for the score of Twentieth Century Fox’s animated feature Anastasia, which she also adapted for Broadway. Her many additional Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Once On This Island (2018 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival); Seussical; Madison Square Garden’s A Christmas Carol,  My Favorite Year, Rocky, A Man of No Importance, and more. She’s an Emmy winner and four-time Grammy nominee., co-founder of the DGF Fellows program and a Lifetime Member of the Dramatists Guild Council. In 2015, she and long-time collaborator Stephen Flaherty were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.
www.ahrensandflaherty.com

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