The run closed March 4, 1979
- Opened
- January 11, 1979
- Closed
- March 4, 1979
- Performances
- 61
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 244th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Other stagings of The Grand Tour 1 more that season
| 1951 | Martin Beck Theatre Original | 8 perf. |
Who was in it29 named
Bjarne Buchtrup
Chevi Colton
Carol Dorian
Travis Hudson
Kenneth Kantor
Jack Karcher
Bronna Lipton
Michelle Marshall
Bob Morrisey
Stan Page
Jay Pierce
Linda Poser
Theresa Rakov
George Reinholt
Jeff Richards
Paul Solen
Jo Speros
Jay Stuart
Gene Varrone
Jeff Veazey
Stephen Vinovich
Mark Waldrop
Bonnie Young
Roger Bigelow
5 of these 29 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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.
Creative team
- Director
- Gerald Freedman
- Choreographer
- Donald Saddler
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.
Around this production
one that audiences like more than critics) and The Grand Tour closed after two months (Grey tore up an earlier closing notice onstage), losing $1.5 million.
January 11, 1979 The Grand Tour Herman 328 Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 465
- Joel Grey in The Grand Tour (1979), a musical version of Jacoboivsky and the Colonel; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 87
- The Grand Tour (1/11/79) starred Joel Grey in an unsuccessful musical- ization of S. N. Behrman’s play Jacobowsky and the Colonel based on a play by Franz Werfel. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 263
- Other productions of the 1950s included Rice’s Not for Children (2/13/51; 7 performances); Jan de Hartog’s The Fourposter (10/24/51; 632 performances), winner of the Tony AWARD for Best Play; Maxwell Anderson’s Barefoot in Athens (10/31/51; 29 performances); Rice’s The Grand Tour (12/10/51; 8 performances); Stanley You… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 431
- His particular charms seemed oddly manufactured as the sensitive refugee S. S. Jacobowsky in Jerry Herman’s The Grand Tour. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 55
- Stewart took much of the blame for that show’s failure, but, as time goes on, one begins to realize just how difficult the story of Mack Sennett and Mabel Norman is to musicalize. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 161
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for The Grand Tour at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.