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Isn't It Time For A GRAND HOTEL Revival?
#25Isn't It Time For A GRAND HOTEL Revival?
Posted: 4/12/13 at 10:07pm
I'm down! Could it please play the Marquis? A GRAND HOTEL revival in an actual grand hotel! 
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#26Isn't It Time For A GRAND HOTEL Revival?
Posted: 4/12/13 at 11:20pm
I wonder if Roundabout would have any interest in pursuing this!
But, I think Leigh Ann Larkin would be a great Flemmchen and David Hyde Pierce as Otto!
#27Isn't It Time For A GRAND HOTEL Revival?
Posted: 4/13/13 at 12:08amOne other reason for a revival is to get a better recording. The OCR was very late and rushed out just before the show closed (after over 1,019 perfs) and has many wrong notes and bad edits. There is no need for 2 discs..the show can be nicely telescoped to about 75 minutes without losing any important musical passages.
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#28Isn't It Time For A GRAND HOTEL Revival?
Posted: 4/13/13 at 3:21am
It must be such a hard show to cast today. I do agree the original cast is unbeatable, I mean, I loved Leigh Ann Larkin in GYPSY (not so much in NIGHT MUSIC where she was just completely in a different cast) so we know she has it in her, but who's the next Jane Krakowski? Sheridan Smith channeled Krakowski in LEGALLY BLONDE, but I doubt she'd take a nonlead role like that. David Hyde Pierce lights up the stage, but who can replace Michael Jeter?
Of course with this logic, we wouldn't have seen some of the best revivals with great casts. I guess I just hope that when it does get revived, it's very carefully cast. That's why something like Encores! would be ideal.
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#29Isn't It Time For A GRAND HOTEL Revival?
Posted: 4/13/13 at 8:15am
Jason Danielly as the Baron, Karen Ziemba as the ballerina. Chip Zien can still play Kringelein. Megan Hilty as Flaemchen.
#30Isn't It Time For A GRAND HOTEL Revival?
Posted: 4/13/13 at 8:22am
It is also a very, very tough show to do, production-wise. It doesnt lend itself to the kind of stripped-down, low-budget productions you see in the hinterlands. Two companies I used to work with really wanted to do it, until we looked at just the physical basics and realized it was almost impossible.
Personally, I love it, and I'd love to see it remounted. But anything done today would come across as second-hand compared to what Tune did.
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