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Grand Hotel (musical)
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Grand Hotel is a musical with a book by Luther Davis
and music and lyrics by Robert Wright
and George Forrest
, with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston
.
Based on the 1929 Vicki Baum
novel
and play, Menschen im Hotel (People in a Hotel), and the subsequent 1932 MGM feature film
, the musical focuses on events taking place over the course of a weekend in an elegant hotel in 1928 Berlin
and the intersecting stories of the eccentric guests of the hotel, including a fading prima ballerina; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper, who wants to spend his final days living in luxury; a young, handsome, but destitute Baron; a cynical doctor; and a typist dreaming of Hollywood success.
Big-name cast replacements, including Cyd Charisse
, helped the show become the first American musical since Big River
to top 1,000 performances on Broadway. The show's 1989 Broadway production garnered 12 Tony Award nominations, winning five, including best direction and choreography for Tommy Tune
.
, Greta Garbo
and Joan Crawford
.
and transforming the ballerina into an opera
singer closely resembling Maria Callas
to accommodate Joan Diener
, who was scheduled to star under the direction of her husband Albert Marre
. All of them had collaborated on the earlier Kismet
and anticipated another success, but Davis' book strayed too far from the story familiar to fans of the film. When Paul Muni
agreed to portray Kringelein, the role was changed and expanded, with the character becoming a lowly hotel employee whose stay in a hotel suite is kept secret from the management. Flaemmchen became a dancing soubrette
, Preysing and his dramatic story line were eliminated completely, and two deported American
gangster
s were added for comic relief.
At the Grand opened to mixed reviews and good business in Los Angeles
and San Francisco, but when an unhappy Muni refused to extend his preliminary contract and left the production, producer Edwin Lester decided to cancel the Broadway
opening scheduled for September 25, 1958, and everyone moved on to other projects.
, who envisioned it as a two-hour, non-stop production comprising dialogue scenes, musical numbers, and dance routines overlapping and at times competing with each other, thereby capturing the mood of a bustling hotel where something is happening at all times. Seven songs from At the Grand were incorporated into what was now called Grand Hotel, although two were dropped during the Boston
tryout.
The creative team proved to be too attached to the original material and resisted every change that Tune proposed. "Bluntly stated, the show didn’t work. With the exception of the choreography and the physical trappings, the show was deadly," Tune recalled in his memoir
Footnotes. Frustrated, he finally fired Wright and Forrest and brought in Maury Yeston in 1989, with whom he had worked in Nine
, to compose six new songs and revise others (including rewriting over half the lyrics in the show). He also hired Peter Stone to doctor Davis' book, although Stone refused official credit for his work. Tune later commented, "I hate it when it gets ugly on a show. It always does though, and you've gotta be hearty to survive. If it's not the writers, then it's the producers or the cast. There is always turmoil, but if you're lucky some good can come of it all. I have always tried to be kind to everyone, but please don’t mistake my kindness for weakness."
to complete its total run of 1,017 performances. The show is played without an intermission. The original cast included Liliane Montevecchi
as Elizaveta Grushinskaya, Michael Jeter
as Otto Kringelein (garnering much praise and several awards), David Carroll
as the Baron, Timothy Jerome as Preysing, John Wylie as Otternschlag, Bob Stillman
as Erik, and Jane Krakowski
as Flaemmchen. Replacements later in the run included Cyd Charisse
(in her Broadway debut at age 70) and Zina Bethune
as Elizaveta, Austin Pendleton
and Chip Zien
as Otto, and John Schneider
, Rex Smith
, and Brent Barrett
as the Baron. The production captured 12 Tony nominations, winning five awards, including best direction and choreography for Tommy Tune
.
The release of the much in-demand original cast recording was delayed nearly two years due to legal disputes with Wright and Forrest. By the time the situation was resolved, Carroll was seriously ill with AIDS
, and died from a pulmonary embolism while in the bathroom of the recording studio early in the session. Brent Barrett
, who had appeared as the Baron both on Broadway and in the national tour, sang the role for the cast album released by RCA Victor. As an homage to Carroll the cast album features a bonus track of his performance during a 1991 cabaret fundraiser for Equity Fights AIDS
, singing the Baron's major song, "Love Can't Happen".
The first West End
production opened on July 6, 1992 at the Dominion Theatre
, where it ran for slightly less than four months. In 2004, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
starred as Elizaveta in a small-scale production directed by Michael Grandage
at the Donmar Warehouse
.
Jewish bookkeeper Otto Kringelein, who is fatally ill, wants to spend his final days living in the lap of luxury, and Baron Felix Von Gaigern, young, good-looking and destitute, uses his charisma to help him secure a room while stiffing a tough gangster pretending to be a chauffeur. Meanwhile, Hermann Preysing, the general manager of a failing textile mill, hears that the merger with a Boston
company is off, spelling financial ruin, but tries not to lie to his stockholders. However, he presses his secretary, Flaemmchen, for sex. She dreams of Hollywood stardom and fears she might be pregnant, but flirts with the Baron. The Baron tries to steal from Elizaveta Grushinskaya in order to pay back the gangster but when instead falls in love with her when she comes into her room.
Two African-American entertainers sing at the bar, while assistant concierge
Erik, who is about to become a father, tries in vain to get off work so that he can join his wife at the hospital. Preysing and the Baron get into a fight when the Baron was in his room trying to steal his wallet, but heard the struggles of Flaemmchen and walks into her room to defend her while still holding Preysing's wallet, Preysing sees the Baron holding the wallet and realizes that the Baron was going to steal it. After a struggle Preysing kills the Baron with the gangster's gun. Preysing is arrested. Grushinskaya's heart is broken when the Baron never shows up at the train station(they were going to run off and get married). Flaemmchen falls in love with Otto Kringelein and he with her. Cynical Doctor Otternschlag, a morphine
addict still suffering from World War I
wounds, notes “Grand Hotel, Berlin. Always the same – people come, people go – One life ends while another begins – one heart breaks while another beats faster – one man goes to jail while another goes to Paris – always the same.... I’ll stay – one more day.”
Luther Davis
Luther Davis was an American play- and screenwriter. He attended Culver Academies, received a BA from Yale and rose to the rank of major in the US Air Force...
and music and lyrics by Robert Wright
Robert Wright (writer)
Robert [Craig] Wright was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet, for which he and his professional partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics...
and George Forrest
George Forrest (author)
George Forrest was a writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, adapted from the works of Alexander Borodin.-Biography:...
, with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston is an American composer, lyricist, educator and musicologist.He is known for writing the music and lyrics to Broadway musicals, including Nine in 1982, and Titanic in 1997, both of which won Tony Awards for best musical and best score. He also won a Drama Desk Award for Nine...
.
Based on the 1929 Vicki Baum
Vicki Baum
Hedwig Baum was an Austrian writer. She is known for Menschen im Hotel , one of her first international successes....
novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
and play, Menschen im Hotel (People in a Hotel), and the subsequent 1932 MGM feature film
Grand Hotel (film)
Grand Hotel is a 1932 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by William A. Drake and Béla Balázs is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum...
, the musical focuses on events taking place over the course of a weekend in an elegant hotel in 1928 Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
and the intersecting stories of the eccentric guests of the hotel, including a fading prima ballerina; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper, who wants to spend his final days living in luxury; a young, handsome, but destitute Baron; a cynical doctor; and a typist dreaming of Hollywood success.
Big-name cast replacements, including Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse was an American actress and dancer.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s...
, helped the show become the first American musical since Big River
Big River (musical)
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical with a book by William Hauptman and music and lyrics by Roger Miller.Based on Mark Twain's classic 1884 novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it features music in the bluegrass and country styles in keeping with the setting of the novel...
to top 1,000 performances on Broadway. The show's 1989 Broadway production garnered 12 Tony Award nominations, winning five, including best direction and choreography for Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune
Thomas James "Tommy" Tune is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won nine Tony Awards and the National Medal of Arts.-Early years:...
.
Background
Menschen im Hotel marked the beginning of the career of popular Austrian novelist Baum in 1929. She dramatized the novel for the Berlin stage later in the same year. The play became a hit, and its English-language adaptation enjoyed a huge success in New York in the early 1930s and was made in to the blockbuster 1932 Academy Award-winning film, Grand Hotel, starring John BarrymoreJohn Barrymore
John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...
, Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
and Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
.
At the Grand
Davis, Wright, and Forrest first adapted Baum's story in 1958 under the title At the Grand, changing the setting from 1928 Berlin to contemporary RomeRome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
and transforming the ballerina into an opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
singer closely resembling Maria Callas
Maria Callas
Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts...
to accommodate Joan Diener
Joan Diener
Joan Diener was an American theatre actress and singer with a three-and-a-half-octave range.Born in Columbus, Ohio, Diener majored in psychology at Sarah Lawrence College and moonlighted as an actress while still a student...
, who was scheduled to star under the direction of her husband Albert Marre
Albert Marre
Albert Marre is an American director and producer in the theatre.Born in New York City, Marre made his Broadway debut as an actor and associate director of the 1950 revival of John Vanbrugh's Restoration comedy The Relapse...
. All of them had collaborated on the earlier Kismet
Kismet (musical)
Kismet is a musical with lyrics and musical adaptation by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin, and a book by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis, based on Kismet, the 1911 play by Edward Knoblock...
and anticipated another success, but Davis' book strayed too far from the story familiar to fans of the film. When Paul Muni
Paul Muni
Paul Muni was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor...
agreed to portray Kringelein, the role was changed and expanded, with the character becoming a lowly hotel employee whose stay in a hotel suite is kept secret from the management. Flaemmchen became a dancing soubrette
Soubrette
A soubrette is a female stock character in opera and theatre. The term arrived in English from Provençal via French, and means "conceited" or "coy".-Theater:...
, Preysing and his dramatic story line were eliminated completely, and two deported American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
gangster
Gangster
A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Some gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from mob and the suffix -ster....
s were added for comic relief.
At the Grand opened to mixed reviews and good business in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
and San Francisco, but when an unhappy Muni refused to extend his preliminary contract and left the production, producer Edwin Lester decided to cancel the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
opening scheduled for September 25, 1958, and everyone moved on to other projects.
Grand Hotel
More than three decades later, Davis, Wright, and Forrest decided to dust off their original material and give the show another try. This time it was placed in the hands of director/choreographer Tommy TuneTommy Tune
Thomas James "Tommy" Tune is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won nine Tony Awards and the National Medal of Arts.-Early years:...
, who envisioned it as a two-hour, non-stop production comprising dialogue scenes, musical numbers, and dance routines overlapping and at times competing with each other, thereby capturing the mood of a bustling hotel where something is happening at all times. Seven songs from At the Grand were incorporated into what was now called Grand Hotel, although two were dropped during the Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
tryout.
Memoir
A memoir , is a literary genre, forming a subclass of autobiography – although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are almost interchangeable. Memoir is autobiographical writing, but not all autobiographical writing follows the criteria for memoir set out below...
Footnotes. Frustrated, he finally fired Wright and Forrest and brought in Maury Yeston in 1989, with whom he had worked in Nine
Nine (musical)
Nine is a musical with a book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. The story is based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film 8½...
, to compose six new songs and revise others (including rewriting over half the lyrics in the show). He also hired Peter Stone to doctor Davis' book, although Stone refused official credit for his work. Tune later commented, "I hate it when it gets ugly on a show. It always does though, and you've gotta be hearty to survive. If it's not the writers, then it's the producers or the cast. There is always turmoil, but if you're lucky some good can come of it all. I have always tried to be kind to everyone, but please don’t mistake my kindness for weakness."
Broadway and subsequent productions
After thirty-one previews, Grand Hotel opened on November 12, 1989 at the Martin Beck Theatre, and later transferred to the George GershwinGeorge Gershwin Theatre
The Gershwin Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 222 West 51st Street in midtown-Manhattan in the Paramount Plaza building. The theatre is named after composer George Gershwin and lyricist Ira Gershwin...
to complete its total run of 1,017 performances. The show is played without an intermission. The original cast included Liliane Montevecchi
Liliane Montevecchi
Liliane Montevecchi is a French actress, dancer, and singer.Montevecchi began her career as a prima ballerina in Roland Petit's dance company...
as Elizaveta Grushinskaya, Michael Jeter
Michael Jeter
Michael Jeter was an American actor.- Early life :Michael Jeter was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. His mother, Virginia , was a housewife...
as Otto Kringelein (garnering much praise and several awards), David Carroll
David Carroll (actor)
David Carroll , sometimes billed as David James Carroll, was an American actor whose last, and best remembered, role was that of Baron Felix von Gaigern in Grand Hotel: The Musical....
as the Baron, Timothy Jerome as Preysing, John Wylie as Otternschlag, Bob Stillman
Bob Stillman
Bob Stillman is an American actor, singer, and songwriter.He studied piano at Juilliard, and made his broadway debut in Grand Hotel as Erik; was a replacement cast member in Kiss of the Spider Woman; gave a Tony nominated performance as a pianist and actor in Broadway's Dirty Blonde, played a...
as Erik, and Jane Krakowski
Jane Krakowski
Jane Krakowski is an American actress and singer. She is most well known for her performance of Elaine Vassal on Ally McBeal, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and for her current role as Jenna Maroney on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, for which she has been nominated for three Emmy...
as Flaemmchen. Replacements later in the run included Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse was an American actress and dancer.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s...
(in her Broadway debut at age 70) and Zina Bethune
Zina Bethune
Zina Bethune is an American actress, dancer and choreographer.Bethune started formal ballet training at age 6 at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet. By age 14 she was dancing with the New York City Ballet...
as Elizaveta, Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton is an American film, television, and stage actor, a playwright, and a theatre director and instructor.-Life and career:...
and Chip Zien
Chip Zien
Chip Zien is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of the Baker in the original Broadway production of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim...
as Otto, and John Schneider
John Schneider (television actor)
John Richard Schneider III is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of Bo Duke in the 1980s American television series The Dukes of Hazzard, and as Jonathan Kent on Smallville, a 2001 television adaptation of Superman.Alongside his acting career, Schneider performed as a...
, Rex Smith
Rex Smith
Rex Smith is an American actor and singer. Smith debuted in the Broadway play Grease in 1978. He is noted for his role as Jesse Mach in the 1985 television series Street Hawk, as well as being a singer and stage actor. During the late 1970s, Smith was popular as a teen idol...
, and Brent Barrett
Brent Barrett
Brent Barrett is an American actor and tenor who is mostly known for his work within American theatre. Barrett has performed in musicals and in concerts with theatres, symphony orchestras, opera houses, and concert halls internationally...
as the Baron. The production captured 12 Tony nominations, winning five awards, including best direction and choreography for Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune
Thomas James "Tommy" Tune is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won nine Tony Awards and the National Medal of Arts.-Early years:...
.
The release of the much in-demand original cast recording was delayed nearly two years due to legal disputes with Wright and Forrest. By the time the situation was resolved, Carroll was seriously ill with AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
, and died from a pulmonary embolism while in the bathroom of the recording studio early in the session. Brent Barrett
Brent Barrett
Brent Barrett is an American actor and tenor who is mostly known for his work within American theatre. Barrett has performed in musicals and in concerts with theatres, symphony orchestras, opera houses, and concert halls internationally...
, who had appeared as the Baron both on Broadway and in the national tour, sang the role for the cast album released by RCA Victor. As an homage to Carroll the cast album features a bonus track of his performance during a 1991 cabaret fundraiser for Equity Fights AIDS
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is the theatre community’s response to the AIDS crisis. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity of the theatre community, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and across the country, BC/EFA raises funds for AIDS-related causes across the United States...
, singing the Baron's major song, "Love Can't Happen".
The first West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
production opened on July 6, 1992 at the Dominion Theatre
Dominion Theatre
The Dominion Theatre is a West End theatre on Tottenham Court Road close to St Giles Circus and Centre Point Tower, in the London Borough of Camden.-History:...
, where it ran for slightly less than four months. In 2004, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is an American actress and singer known for her role as Carmen in The Color of Money, as well as for her roles as Lindsey Brigman in The Abyss, Gina Montana in Scarface, and Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.-Personal life:Mastrantonio was born in Lombard,...
starred as Elizaveta in a small-scale production directed by Michael Grandage
Michael Grandage
Michael Grandage CBE is a British theatre director and producer, and current Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse, London. Grandage won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Red.-Early years:...
at the Donmar Warehouse
Donmar Warehouse
Donmar Warehouse is a small not-for-profit theatre in the Covent Garden area of London, with a capacity of 251.-About:Under the artistic leadership of Michael Grandage, the theatre has presented some of London’s most memorable award-winning theatrical experiences, as well as garnered critical...
.
Synopsis
The roaring '20s are still in high gear, and Berlin is the center of high life. Everyone tries to convince fading prima ballerina Elizaveta Grushinskaya that she still can and must dance, especially her confidante and dresser, who would have to come up with a lot of money if the dancer failed to show up for her engagements. She does not recapture her former glory, but she falls in love with the Baron.Jewish bookkeeper Otto Kringelein, who is fatally ill, wants to spend his final days living in the lap of luxury, and Baron Felix Von Gaigern, young, good-looking and destitute, uses his charisma to help him secure a room while stiffing a tough gangster pretending to be a chauffeur. Meanwhile, Hermann Preysing, the general manager of a failing textile mill, hears that the merger with a Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
company is off, spelling financial ruin, but tries not to lie to his stockholders. However, he presses his secretary, Flaemmchen, for sex. She dreams of Hollywood stardom and fears she might be pregnant, but flirts with the Baron. The Baron tries to steal from Elizaveta Grushinskaya in order to pay back the gangster but when instead falls in love with her when she comes into her room.
Two African-American entertainers sing at the bar, while assistant concierge
Concierge
A concierge is an employee who either works in shifts within, or lives on the premises of an apartment building or a hotel and serves guests with duties similar to those of a butler. The position can also be maintained by a security officer over the 'graveyard' shift. A similar position, known as...
Erik, who is about to become a father, tries in vain to get off work so that he can join his wife at the hospital. Preysing and the Baron get into a fight when the Baron was in his room trying to steal his wallet, but heard the struggles of Flaemmchen and walks into her room to defend her while still holding Preysing's wallet, Preysing sees the Baron holding the wallet and realizes that the Baron was going to steal it. After a struggle Preysing kills the Baron with the gangster's gun. Preysing is arrested. Grushinskaya's heart is broken when the Baron never shows up at the train station(they were going to run off and get married). Flaemmchen falls in love with Otto Kringelein and he with her. Cynical Doctor Otternschlag, a morphine
Morphine
Morphine is a potent opiate analgesic medication and is considered to be the prototypical opioid. It was first isolated in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, first distributed by same in 1817, and first commercially sold by Merck in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists' shop. It was more...
addict still suffering from World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
wounds, notes “Grand Hotel, Berlin. Always the same – people come, people go – One life ends while another begins – one heart breaks while another beats faster – one man goes to jail while another goes to Paris – always the same.... I’ll stay – one more day.”
Song list
- The Grand Parade (Yeston)
- Some Have, Some Have Not (Wright/Forrest)
- As It Should Be (Wright/Forrest)
- At the Grand Hotel (Yeston)/Table With a View (Wright/Forrest)
- Maybe My Baby Loves Me (Wright/Forrest)
- Fire and Ice (Wright/Forrest)
- Twenty Two Years (Yeston)/Villa On a Hill (Wright/Forrest)
- I Want To Go To Hollywood (Yeston)
- Everybody's Doing It (Yeston)
- As It Could Be (Wright/Forrest)
- The Crooked Path (Wright/Forrest)
- Who Couldn't Dance With You? (Wright/Forrest)
- No Encore (Wright/Forrest)
- Fire and Ice (Wright/Forrest)
- Love Can't Happen (Yeston)
- What You Need (Wright/Forrest)
- Bonjour Amour (Yeston)
- H-A-P-P-Y (Wright/Forrest)
- We'll Take A Glass Together (Wright/Forrest)
- I Waltz Alone (Wright/Forrest)
- H-A-P-P-Y (Reprise)
- Roses at the Station (Yeston)
- What You Need (Wright/Forrest)
- How Can I Tell Her? (Wright/Forrest)
- At the Grand Hotel (Reprise)
- As It Should Be (Wright/Forrest)
- The Grand Parade/Some Have, Some Have Not (Reprise)
- The Grand Waltz (Wright/Forrest)
Awards and nominations
- Tony AwardTony AwardThe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
for Best Musical (nominee) - Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Original Score (nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (Carroll, nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Montevecchi, nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Jeter, winner)
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Krakowski, nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design (nominee)
- Tony Award for Best Costume Design (winner)
- Tony Award for Best Lighting Design (winner)
- Tony Award for Best Choreography (winner)
- Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (winner)
- Drama Desk AwardDrama Desk AwardThe Drama Desk Awards, which are given annually in a number of categories, are the only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway compete against each other in the same category...
for Outstanding Musical (nominee) - Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Carroll, nominee)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Jeter, winner)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Krakowski, nominee)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography (winner)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical (winner)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestration (nominee)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics (nominee)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music (nominee)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design (winner)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design (winner)
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design (nominee)