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List Price: $8.99 | | Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Salesrank: 42012
Released: June 23, 1992 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Grand Hotel: The Musical - Broadway Cast Recording Track Listing:
1. Grand Parade/Some Have, Same Have Not/As It Should Be - Barrett, David Elledge, Henry Grossman, Kathi Moss, William Ryall, Walter Willison, John Wylie
2. Look at Him
3. At the Grand Hotel/Table With a View - Brent Barrett, Michael Jeter
4. Maybe My Baby Loves Me - David Jackson, Jane Krakowski, Danny Strayhorn
5. Fire and Ice/Twenty-Two Years/Villa on a Hill - Karen Akers, Liliane Montevecchi, Ensemble
6. I Want to Go to Hollywood - Jane Krakowski
7. Sorry to Report...
8. Crooked Path/Some Have, Some Have Not/As It Should Be - David Elledge, Henry Grossman, Timothy Jerome, William Ryall, Walter Willison, Ensemble
9. Who Couldn't Dance With You? - Brent Barrett, Michael Jeter, Jane Krakowski
10. So Tell Me Baron...
11. Love Can't Happen - Brent Barrett
12. What You Need - Karen Akers
13. Bonjour Amour - Lilliane Montevicchi
14. H-A-P-P-Y/We'll Take a Glass Together - Brent Barrett, David Jackson, Michael Jeter, Danny Strayhorn, Ensemble
15. I Waltz Alone - Brent Barrett, Michael Jeter, John Wylie
16. No Creature on the Planet...
17. Roses at the Station - Brent Barrett
18. Two Sworn Enemies...
19. Bolero - The Orchestra
20. How Can I Tell Her? - Karen Akers
21. Final Scene/As It Should Be/At the Grand Hotel/Some Have, Some Have N - Company, Henry Grossman, Michael Jeter, Jane Krakowski, Bob Stillman, John Wylie
22. Grand Waltz
23. Love Can't Happen [*] - David Carroll, David Carroll
Editorial Review:
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Genre: Original Cast Recordings
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 23-JUN-1992
Description of Grand Hotel: The Musical - Broadway Cast Recording:
OK, so it's not exactly The Threepenny Opera. Still, Grand Hotel has plenty of the atmosphere of prewar Berlin in this Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Tommy Tune. Based on the 1932 star-studded, Oscar-winning film, the show takes place in Europe's most luxurious hotel and follows the intertwining lives and shattered dreams of both regular and once-in-a-lifetime guests. Leading the ensemble cast are Parisian follies star Liliane Montevecchi as the aging ballerina, and strong tenor Brent Barrett as the dashing but debt-saddled baron. Also appearing are Ally McBeal's Jane Krakowski as the would-be movie star, cabaret artist Karen Akers as Montevecchi's confidante, and Michael Jeter as the dying bookkeeper. The score was written by Robert Wright and George Forrest (who brought Borodin to Broadway with Kismet), with additional material by Maury Yeston (Titanic), and the highlights include the soaring romantic ballad "Love Can't Happen," the jazzy scat of "Maybe My Baby Loves Me," and the sassy Charleston number "H-A-P-P-Y." Plenty of dialogue helps capture the flow of the show, and the CD also includes a live cabaret performance of "Love Can't Happen" by the late David Carroll, who originated the baron role on Broadway. --David Horiuchi
Grand Hotel: The Musical - Broadway Cast Recording Reviews:
Grand Hotel 
2009-12-15 - I found the music to be very samey in every song. Okay to listen to once or twice but after that i becomes boring very quickly.
Wonderful music! 
2008-10-22 - I performed in the orchestra for a production of this musical recently. In my 30-odd years of playing shows, I've learned that if I'm doing a show I don't know, it takes a while for me to warm up to the music.
Not so with Grand Hotel! The first time I listened to the CD, I was hooked. I thought, wait a minute, it can't be this good. But it is. The music, the orchestrations, the singing all add up to a fabulous CD. Kudos to the entire creative team, orchestra, and cast.
I can only guess... 
2008-08-21 - Just hearing the bonus track of David Carroll singing "Love Can't Happen" makes me wonder how BETTER the original cast recording could have been. Brent Barrett vocally sounds shrill and tense in his upper range, marring the official recordings of "Roses at the Station" and "Love Can't Happen". What a tragedy!!! And Carroll's other recording--the Broadway version of Chess--is no longer in print (according to Amazon). This is a double tragedy, because David played Anatoly in the show and gets to sing the powerful "Anthem" at the end of Act 1.
Generally, the score sounds cobbled together with no memorable melodies (other than "Love Can't Happen", which burrows its way into your psyche at the first or second hearing). Perhaps Yeston should have written the whole score and find some legal way to discard the derivative songs provided by Forrest and Wright. Perhaps a revival (and major rewrite) is in order...
This is not a good representation of this show, vocally and compositionally speaking. Unfortunately, there are currently no other representation. My two cents.
Grand Hotel - Grand Recording 
2008-07-21 - The original cast recording of Grand Hotel is grand indeed. Exellent orchestrations and as excellent cast. The emotion of the piece is conveye d thoroughly on this recording.
Grand Hotel
2006-07-24 - "Grand Hotel" is a fine musical with songs by George Forrest and Robert Wright and some additional material by Maury Yeston. What stole the show in this musical, however, was Mr. Tommy Tune's inventive staging. That doesn't mean audiences went out humming the staging, though. The songs are excellet as well. Some standouts include the opening number, "Grand Hotel" or "The Grand Parade" as it is officially titled written by Mr. Yeston is a wonderfully jaunty opening number. "At The Grand Hotel\Table With a View", performed by the incomparable Michael Jeter is a lovely selection. "Maybe My Baby Loves Me" is tuneful fun. "Love Can't Happen" is a very romantic ballad and "What You Need" is a wonderful Weill-esque number performed with conviciton by one my favorite performers, Karen Akers. "We'll Take a Glass Together" is also a great showstopper performed by Mr. Jeter and Brent Barret.
The performances are excellent. Ms. Akers and Mr. Jeter steal the show. Thinking about the performances of their songs "What You Need" and "We'll Take a Glass Together" performed by Akers and Jeter respectively sends chills through my body. Brent Barret is fine as the Baron and Liliane Montevecchi as the retiring balerina is excellent, although her role in "Nine" was better suited for her. Jane Krawkowski is also great as a young wannabe movie star.
The orchestrations by Peter Matz are excellent. The original cast album includes a bonus track of David Carroll performing "Love Can't Happen" at a cabaret. Mr. Carroll starred as the Baron durring the beginning of the run, but was diagnosed with HIV and was replaced by Brent Barrett. Because of legal issues, the cast album was recorded late in the run. The creative team thought that it'd be a good idea to have the still living, if very ill Mr. Carroll perform his songs. Alas, he died of AIDS in the studio before his tracks could be recorded. The bonus track is nice for people who enjoy the vocalizing of Mr. Carroll. I don't particulary like his voice and prefer Mr. Barrett's performance of the song. However, his passing was very unfortunate and he is missed.
