Productions2 on Broadway
| 1951 | Martin Beck Theatre Original. December 10, 1951 · predates this show | 8 performances |
| 1979 | Palace Revival. January 11, 1979 · Gerald Freedman | 61 performances |
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.
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature30 passages
Joel Grey in The Grand Tour (1979), a musical version of Jacoboivsky and the Colonel; book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p87
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. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p263
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… book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p431
His particular charms seemed oddly manufactured as the sensitive refugee S. S. Jacobowsky in Jerry Herman’s The Grand Tour. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p55
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. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p161
Then came the fall—Dear World, Mack and Mabel, and The Grand Tour, beautiful scores all, but flops. Really, really big flops. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p178
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