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The Grand Tour

Shows · The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.

Opened
1979
Performances
61
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Jerry HermanLyrics: Jerry HermanBook: Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble

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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