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Article: UE'S 'GRAND HOTEL' BLENDS GLITZ WITH DESPERATION
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2007
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Appearances almost always deceive in "Grand Hotel, the Musical."
The rich, polished surfaces of this show, set in a palatial
Berlin hotel in the late 1920s, provide the shiny facades hiding the
disillusion, desperation and self-delusion tarnishing most of the
lives in Luther Davis, Robert Wright and George Forrest's musical
adaptation of Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel."
The glitter dazzles and the decay appalls, yet humanity and hope
shine through the University of Evansville Theatre's production of
the musical, which opened Friday to a Shanklin Theatre audience of
360.
Director R. Scott Lank's team of directors, designers, actors,
singers, dancers, musicians and technicians have crafted a ...