{"id":19759,"date":"2013-03-13T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=19759"},"modified":"2022-09-29T12:49:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:49:53","slug":"grand-hotel-concludes-theatre-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/03\/13\/grand-hotel-concludes-theatre-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy your stay at the \u201cGrand Hotel\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The fun, fast-paced <\/span>Grand Hotel: The Musical <\/em>marks the conclusion of the successful 2012\u201313 theatre season of Wright State University\u2019s Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Performances run March 14 to 31 in the Festival Playhouse in the Creative Arts Center on Wright State University\u2019s Dayton campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWright State is pulling out the stops to mount this multiple Tony Award\u2013winning musical,\u201d said W. Stuart McDowell, department chair. \u201cAudiences are going to have the thrill of their lives as we end this season with one of the truly great American musicals of the modern era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on Vicki Baum\u2019s 1929 novel and play Menschen im Hotel<\/em> (\u201cPeople in a Hotel\u201d) and the 1932 Academy Award\u2013winning film, the musical is set in the Grand Hotel Berlin in Germany before the crash of the New York Stock Exchange. It focuses on events taking place over one weekend and the intersecting stories of the hotel\u2019s eccentric guests. They include a fading prima ballerina; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper who wants to spend his final days living in luxury; a young, handsome, but destitute baron; a cynical doctor; and a typist dreaming of Hollywood success.<\/p>\n

The musical debuted on Broadway in 1989, earning 12 Tony Award nominations and winning five. It was the first American musical since Big River <\/em>to surpass 1,000 performances on Broadway.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis fabulous musical is filled with non-stop music, great singing and dance, which is why it set records on Broadway,\u201d McDowell said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grand Hotel: The Musical <\/em>is directed by Marya Spring Cordes, assistant professor of theatre, who previously staged in 2011 Wright State Theatre\u2019s <\/span>Dead Man\u2019s Cellphone <\/em>and <\/span>Picnic<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The production features Justin King as Doctor Otternschlag, Taryn Lemmons as Elizaveta Grushinskaya, Mathys Herbert as Otto Kringelein, Riley Able as Baron Felix Von Gaigern, Andrew Quiett as Hermann Preysing and Sierra Stacy as Flaemmchen.<\/p>\n

Ticket Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets are $20 for adults and $18 students and seniors and can be purchased by calling the Theatre Box Office at (937) 775-2500. Performance times are available on the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t