Shows · Grand Hotel
Grand Hotel
Opened 1989
1,077 performances
Musical, Megamusical
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.
"Grand Hotel (subtitled The Musical), a Best Play, was a good deal more than a technical tour de force.": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Robert Wright & George Forrest
- Lyrics
- Robert Wright & George Forrest
- Book
- Luther Davis
Productions3 productions: 2 on Broadway, 1 in the West End
Recordings 1 recording
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…
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