Grand Hotel is Long Overdue For Revival
Grand Hotel is Long Overdue For Revival
#1Grand Hotel is Long Overdue For Revival
Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:30am
Can somebody please make this happen? This musical seems like it would be perfect for a Roundabout revival. I can't be the only one clamoring for it!
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#2Grand Hotel is Long Overdue For Revival
Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:32am
I was just thinking this the other day, actually! I would love this!
#3Grand Hotel is Long Overdue For Revival
Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:33am
I saw a tiny revival some years back at the Donmar and it was unimpressive. The musical needs the Tommy Tune staging (or at least something else truly visionary) otherwise its not worth reviving.
“I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.”
#4Grand Hotel is Long Overdue For Revival
Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:35am
I disagree -- I thought the Donmar production was superb. It was moody and evocative. The score and show are strong on their own and not dependent on a big splashy production to stand out.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#5Grand Hotel is Long Overdue For Revival
Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:38am
Whenever someone decides to mount a revival, I have some casting suggestions.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#6Grand Hotel is Long Overdue For Revival
Posted: 11/30/16 at 11:43am
I think the music itself holds up well, as does the story. That being said, I do think the show would need an inspired director, because without one, it would be a disaster with all the different plots going on. One name that comes to mind, that I know is relatively new to the directing game is David Hyde Pierce. I thought his staging of It Shoulda Been You was pretty great and he did a good job of juggling multiple scenes and storylines all happening at the same time.
#7Grand Hotel is Long Overdue For Revival
Posted: 11/30/16 at 12:40pm
Alright, fine, I will compromise that it doesn't have to be all Tommy Tune choreography, but can we at least have "Take a Glass"?
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