Grand Hotel
Shows · Grand Hotel
Set in Berlin's opulent Grand Hotel in 1928, the musical interweaves the stories of a diverse group of guests during a single eventful weekend. A fading ballerina, a desperate baron, a terminally ill bookkeeper, a ruthless industrialist, and a starry-eyed typist all cross paths, their lives intersecting and transforming each other as they check in and out of the glamorous but fading hotel.
- Opened
- 1989
- Performances
- 1,077
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions3 on Broadway
| 1930 | National Theatre Original. November 13, 1930 · Fritz Feld · predates this show | 459 performances |
| 1989 | Martin Beck Theatre Revival. November 12, 1989 · Tommy Tune | 1,077 performances |
| 1992 | Transfer Theatre unknown. July 6, 1992 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
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30 passages naming Grand Hotel, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
On November 13, 1930, a landmark theatrical event occurred at the National: Herman Shumlin opened his production of Grand Hotel, a swirling drama based on a play by Vicki Baum, translated from the German by William A. Drake. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p156
It captivated audiences with its portrayal of life in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Eugenie Leontovich played a weary Russian ballerina, Sam JafFe played a clerk with only a few weeks to live, Henry Hull was a baron who gets murdered in the hotel, and the rest of the enormous cast played employees and guests of the Grand H… book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p157
Their final musical, Grand Hotel (1989), was a success, Capping a remarkable career. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p176
Their original musical Grand Hotel, which closed out of town during its tryout in 1958, finally arrived on Broadway in 1989, directed by Tommy Tune and with additional music by Maury Yeston. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p419
Subsequent productions include Grand Hotel: The Musical (1989) book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p1108
With Paul Muni in the role created by Lionel Barrymore in the film version, At the Grand had a huge advance sale prior to its scheduled Broadway opening of September 25, 1958, at the 46th Street Theatre. But Muni wasn’t contractually committed to the musical beyond the scope of the Los Angeles and San Francisco engagem… book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p808
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