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Article: 'GRAND HOTEL' RECALLS LANDMARK MUSICALS.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 14, 1989
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Byline: Michael Kuchwara Associated Press
The time is 1928, the place Berlin. The Depression is only a year away, and Hitler waits to seize power in Germany. But at the Grand Hotel, people are more concerned with other, more important things - like life, death, love, money.
They are the subjects of "Grand Hotel," the intoxicating, evocative new musical that swept into Broadway's Martin Beck Theater on Sunday night under the extraordinary guidance of Tommy Tune.
With Jerome Robbins' preoccupation with ballet and the deaths of Michael Bennett, Bob Fosse and Gower Champion, Tune stands alone as the foremost director and choreographer of Broadway ...