Video: Grand Hotel 'We'll Take A Glass' Tonys Performance

[EugLoven]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 6:30pm

Can we just take a moment to bring a Tony treasure video clip to the discussion?

If you want to see musical staging at its finest. Musical theatre actors at their finest. Choreography reminiscent of the Golden Age. What we can't find on Broadway anymore but what some of us long to see again...

GRAND HOTEL: "We'll Take A Glass" Tony Awards performance
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fFXAwttQxj4

Brent Barrett and Michael Jeter busting Tommy Tune's moves.

I've got tears in my eyes. Michael Jeter was just unbelievable and irreplaceable. What heart. What skill. I'm listening to "Grand Hotel" right now (while transcribing an interview with co-composer/lyricist Maury Yeston, coming soon!) and just needed to see this again.

The music is unbeatable. How I wish I wasn't a mere 7 years old when this musical premiered. I'd have given anything to see it in-person with this incredible cast. Hats off to the talent of Michael and Brent.
Updated On: 1/19/08 at 06:30 PM

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 6:38pm

Jeter was just wonderful. I get chills watching this video.

And his acceptance speech is truly fantastic and touching.
Michael Jeter's acceptance specch.

[morosco]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 6:44pm

Michael Jeter's performance was sublime in Grand Hotel. No other actor in the role came close to making the character as endearing as Jeter did.

May he rest in peace.

[professor]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 6:49pm

Perfectly staged and performed. I got chills when I saw this number performed when I saw the show (back in '89) and I just got them again watching the video. This is what I think of when I think of great theatre.

[Not Barker, Todd.]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 7:18pm

There is nothing quite like watching that clip. It IS musical theatre.