Shows · Grand Hotel · Martin Beck Theatre, 1989
Grand Hotel, 1989
Opened November 12, 1989
Closed April 25, 1992
1,077 performances
Revival
Broadway
Of the productions that opened in the 1980s, this had the 11th longest run.
Other stagings of Grand Hotel 1 more
Who was in it50 named
Jennifer Lee Andrews
Keith Crowningshield
Gerrit de Beer
David Elledge
Ben George
Henry Grossman
Rex D Hays
Suzanne Henderson
David Jackson
Mitchell Jason
Charles Mandracchia
Hal Robinson
Danny Strayhorn
Brooks Almy
Jerry Ball
Caitlin Brown
Michael Demby Cain
Valerie Cutko
Debbie de Coudreaux
George Dudley
Pascale Faye
Delyse Lively Mekka
Lisa Merrill Mccord
Michael Piehl
Jill Powell
Ken Leigh Rogers
John Schneider
Rex Smith
Greg Zerkle
Chip Zien
Zina Bethune
David Jackson Danny Strayhorn as The Two Jimmys
Creative team
- Director
- Tommy Tune
- Choreographer
- Tommy Tune
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
Recordings 1 released while this run was on
Around this production
Grand Hotel is a musical in two acts with a book by Luther Davis, music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, and additional music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. Based on Vicki Baum's 1929 novel, its eponymous spin-off play, Menschen im Hotel (People in a Hotel), and the subsequent 1932 MGM feature film, the musical focuses on events taking place over the course of a weekend in an elegant hotel in 1928 Berlin and the intersecting stories of the eccentric guests of the hotel, including a fading prima ballerina; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper, who wants to spend his final days living in luxury; a young, handsome, but destitute Baron; a cynical doctor; an honest businessman gone bad, an…
Backstage 1989’s Grand Hotel was the first American musical since 1983’s La Cage Aux Folles to run over 1,000 performances. MGM musical star Cyd Charisse made her belated Broadway debut at the age of 71 as a replacement for Liliane Montevecchi. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 146
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