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matty159
#1NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 1/17/18 at 5:24pm

Yes, I know this has been mentioned in previous threads, but I find it odd that the production is two months away and we know nothing.

I am very much looking forward to it, but NYCC has already announced the Off-Center season and there is nothing about this which is hotly awaited. Is there any word on the street about this?

deathofacatler
#2NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 1/17/18 at 6:48pm

I have that same question! I'm assuming that since the Hey, Look Me Over cast list came out 2-ish months before the show that it'll be the same for this and it'll come out pretty soon?

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QueenAlice
#3NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/1/18 at 10:03am

It's not announced on the Encores web site, but apparently Josh Rhodes is directing and choreographing Grand Hotel. Slightly disappointing for those of us hoping for a recreation of Tommy Tune's brilliant original production, but I did think Rhodes work on Bright Star was very good, so he might be a good choice.


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Melissa25
#4NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/2/18 at 10:26am

I loved Bright Star and thought the movement and choreography very special.  I am really looking forward to Grand Hotel at Encores! 

I also like the work that Josh Rhodes did on Rodgers and Hammerstien's Cinderella:

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Updated On: 2/2/18 at 10:26 AM

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Robbie2
#5NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/13/18 at 11:14pm

Looking forward to it...LOVE the art work

 

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BroadwayConcierge
#6NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/13/18 at 11:16pm

*coughs politely*

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Mr. Nowack
#7NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:05am

The same joke everyone made months and months ago when they released that artwork...

Umm any casting?? Anybody?? 5 weeks till the show. The Hey Look me Over press is done. What in the heck are they waiting for?!


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raddersons
#8NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 11:05am

Mr. Nowack said: "Umm any casting?? Anybody?? 5 weeks till the show. The Hey Look me Over press is done. What in the heck are they waiting for?!"

Someone I know works at city center, apparently the audience from Hey Look Me Over fell asleep from being so bored at the last performance. They're still trying to clear them out. They got Carolee Carmello to bang that drum from Wildcat but it just made it worse.

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adamgreer
#9NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:01pm

Here's a cast list, but no mention of who is playing what role, so we get to guess:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Encores-Announces-Cast-for-GRAND-HOTEL-20180214

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QueenAlice
#10NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:02pm

Really? They couldn't include a list of who is playing what role?


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GeorgeandDot
#11NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:04pm

Kind of an underwhelming cast, other than Uranowitz who is always sensational.

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TheSassySam
#12NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:04pm

Surely, Brandon Uranowitz is Otto?

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QueenAlice
#13NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:05pm

James Synder I assume is the Baron who is good casting.

These roles, honestly, are very specific. There aren't a lot of 'name' Broadway performers who are right for Otto, Elizaveta, etc. 


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AC126748
#14NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:07pm

I'm guessing Stephanie Styles is Flaemmchen and Natascia Diaz is Raffaela.


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QueenAlice
#15NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:07pm

Stephanie Styles must be Flemchen. Natasia Diaz is either Elizabeta or Rafaella.


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QueenAlice
#16NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:10pm

If Irina-Dvorovenko is Elizabeta, we get a real Russian ballet dancer in the role, which is great. And I assume they can drop the line that they added for Liliane that 'she is french - only her name is Russian.'


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AC126748
#17NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:10pm

Irina Dvorovenko is Elizaveta, as stated in the press release.


"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
Updated On: 2/14/18 at 12:10 PM

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QueenAlice
#18NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:14pm

Thanks for pointing that out.  Actually, as I look at it more, this cast seems entirely appropriate. The show is the star. I just hope Josh Rhodes can capture the Tommy Tune magic doing his own thing.


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little_sally
#19NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 12:59pm

Totally underwhelming for an Encores production but I adore Brandon Uranowitz.


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QueenAlice
#20NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 1:04pm

For those saying the casting is underwhelming, would you have suggested they cast?


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TheSassySam
#21NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 1:08pm

QueenAlice said: "For those saying the casting is underwhelming, would you have suggested they cast?"

I wanted Jane to reprise as Flaemmchen 

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QueenAlice
#22NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 1:18pm

But it’s not a reunion concert. Jane is 25 years too old for the role now lol


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AC126748
#23NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 1:28pm

The idea of Jane reprising Flaemmchen is ludicrous.

I'm happy with the casting overall but would have preferred Danny Burstein as Otto.


"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

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QueenAlice
#24NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 1:31pm

I love Danny Burstein but, physically at least, he would be a big departure from the way the role was originally played in the musical. Most of this casting seems more or less in line with how this was cast in the Tommy Tune staging. Except that Natascia Diaz is tiny and the women who played Rafaella in the original were all over six foot tall.


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AC126748
#25NYCC Grand Hotel
Posted: 2/14/18 at 1:50pm

Uranowitz is certainly slighter, which is physically in line with Michael Jeter, but I don't think Burstein would be considered a radical departure. And besides, the point of a revival/new staging is not to slavishly reconstruct the original. 


"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


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