The run closed April 25, 1992
- Opened
- November 12, 1989
- Closed
- April 25, 1992
- Performances
- 1,077
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 12th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Grand Hotel 3 more that season
| 1930 | National Theatre Original · Fritz Feld | 459 perf. |
| 1992 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1993 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it49 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
Lynnette Perry
Hal Robinson
Bob Stillman
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
Greg Zerkle
Zina Bethune
19 of these 49 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
David Carroll Baron Felix Von Gaigern
Michael Jeter Otto Kringelein
Liliane Montevecchi Elizaveta Grushinskaya
Jane Krakowski Flaemmchen
Timothy Jerome General Director Preysing
Karen Akers Raffaela Ottanio
John Wylie Colonel Doctor Otternschlag
Bob Stillman Erik Litnauer
David Jackson Danny Strayhorn The Two Jimmys
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Tommy Tune
- Choreographer
- Tommy Tune
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
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
- 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. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 156
- 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… At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 157
- Their final musical, Grand Hotel (1989), was a success, Capping a remarkable career. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 176
- 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. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 419
- Subsequent productions include Grand Hotel: The Musical (1989) More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 1108
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Grand Hotel at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.