"Rags" (Judy Kuhn, Dick Latessa, RAGS, 1986)

The title number from the original Broadway production of the ill-fated and, later, excessively reworked RAGS, which opened and closed at the Mark Hellinger Theatre after 18 previews and 4 performances in August, 1986. Later, in the same season, Judy Kuhn would move on to create Broadway's Cosette in Les Misérables. Judy Kuhn - Bella Cohen Dick Latessa - Avram Cohen Book by Joseph Stein; Music by Charles Strouse; Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; Musical Director: Eric Stern; Additional Arrangements by Eric Stern; Music orchestrated by Michael Starobin; Directed by Gene Saks; Musical Staging by Ron Field; Costume Design by Florence Klotz; Lighting Design by Jules Fisher; Sound Design by Peter Fitzgerald