As the story goes, people are drawn to the Grand Hotel for its elegance and, well, grandeur. It's a place where you can meet a baron or a ballerina, businessman or wiseguy, Hollywood hopeful or lovesick assistant. Everyone has a story and some issue with money to overcome.
Here, in this most. It's a different place, however, for the workers.
There's singing and fun dance numbers, choreographed by Carrie Cimma.
Director John Saunders is able to maintain talented crew of technicians and designers.
now has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. But somehow at Grand Hotel, Kringelein gets renewed energy and falls in love.
Every second that Milnes is on stage, eyes follow him. He is consistently interesting, whether it's in the simple way he twists his handkerchief, his exquisite joy at being able to share an awkward dance with a beautiful lady, or his elation that inspires a full-out dance.
appropriately bubbly.
The natural dancer cuts quite a rug as Hollywood. But first there is the issue of her pregnancy.
As the sleek Baron Felix Von Gaigern, Ryan Latour has the perfect leading man voice and a face to match.
He draws Kudos to Lawren Roulier, who dons toe shoes and portrays Grushinskaya, an aging ballerina who flits in and out of retirement because she has run out of money.
stately hotel in Berlin in the 1920s. It was adapted to a play and then for screen starring John Barrymore, Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford.
While a musical version was written in the late 1950s, it was in 1989 that Tommy Tune and Maury Yeston whipped it into shape for Broadway.
to create the intrinsic majesty and extra playing space. She Those who visited got more than a bed -- they found hope, love, renewed energy and destiny.
And for the watching, the audience is energized.
Lisa Ann Williamson reviews theater for the Advance. She may be reached at williamson@siadvance.
com.
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