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Article: 'GRAND HOTEL' A RETRO-FITTED MUSICAL FOR '90S.(Show)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 29, 1992
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Byline: Jackie Demaline Executive entertainment editor
Chairs dance - or seem to. A debonair, enigmatic man and his blind partner perform a mesmerizing adagio. Everybody foxtrots. "Grand Hotel," with "City of Angels," was one of the big American musicals that signaled that domination of Broadway by the British - after a decade of "Les Miz," "Phantom," "Miss Saigon" - was at an end.
If American musicals are back on the American stage, it's because our composers, librettists, and producers learned a valuable lesson: If the Brits were winning with retro - for what are their major hits if not a century's leap backward to Victor Hugo, a Victorian melodrama ...