Details

Come, spend a night or two in the world's most opulent, extravagant hotel. Perhaps you will find your fortune there, perhaps you will find true love, perhaps all of your dreams will come true... perhaps... The Grand Hotel is bustling with eccentric and sometimes dubious guests: amongst them a fading prima ballerina being forced to dance again; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper who wants to spend his final days living in luxury; a young, handsome, but destitute Baron; a cynical doctor suffering from World War I wounds; an honest businessman going bad as he faces financial ruin and a typist dreaming of Hollywood stardom. Over the course of a weekend, their extraordinary stories interweave with each other and the hotel's hardworking staff. Stylish and elegant, based on the Greta Garbo film of the same name, the show tells eight interwoven stories of life and death.

Cast/Performers

Mary-Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Elizaveta Grushinskaya), Helen Baker (Flaemmchen), Julian Ovenden (Baron Felix von Gaigern), Daniel Evans (Otto Kringelein), Gillian Bevan (Raffaella), Martyn Ellis (Herman Preysing), Gary Raymond (Colonel-Doctor), Sara Annis, Hattie Bayton, David Birrell, John Conroy, Elizabeth Cooper-Gee, Paul Hazel, David Lukas, Graham Macduff, Joseph Noble, Sevan Stephan

Creatives/Company

Book by: Luther Davis
Music(s): Robert Wright, George Forrest, Maury Yeston
Lyrics(s): Robert Wright, George Forrest
Corporate Sponsor: SAP
Director(s): Michael Grandage, Jae Alexander (music)
Design: Christopher Oram
Lighting: Hugh Vanstone
Choreographer: Adam Cooper
Sound: Terry Jardine (for Autograph)