Youll never want to go back to before you owned a handwritten musical phrase from the Tony Award-winning triumph Ragtime. Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flahertys multicultural musical, with a book by Terrence McNally, premiered on Broadway in 1998. The sweeping score and powerful story remain poignant to this day as audiences anxiously await its return this fall at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Bring the shows important message home with the empowering lyrics We can never go back to before, an anthem for modern times. Signatures from Ahrens and Flaherty make this special memento even more timeless.