Grand Hotel
by Alchemy Theatre Company
Dec. 11 - Jan. 20
GRAND HOTEL, THE MUSICAL is set in 1928 Berlin during the Weimar Republic, midway between the World Wars and at a time when Berlin was regarded as one of the world’s great centers of high life. The city is a hotbed of art, politics, entertainment and fast and loose living, attracting entertainers, avant-garde artists, businessmen, writers and musicians of the age, bringing issues of life and death, financial ruin, love and murder with them as they come and go through the revolving door to the lobby of the Grand Hotel. The hotel staff keeps the journey flowing, on one level the environment represents a grand place, but what is really being depicted is a society on the point of collapse—the stock market crash is just around the corner and Hitler will seize power in only five years. This story is a haunting one—a bleak world amongst the grandeur, where all the characters are dysfunctional at some level and the Grand Hotel is a microcosm of a society being drip-fed the poison of a money-obsessed culture.
Staged in-the-round at the Whisenhunt Theatre, GRAND HOTEL, THE MUSICAL will allow this complex world to be seen from many perspectives—a luxurious, pulsating yet vaguely tragic first-class hotel where we can eavesdrop on the conversations and the lives of some finely observed people, not a single one going out the revolving door the same as when they came in. In and out, through the ever-revolving door that turns and turns and turns.
Book by Luther Davis
Music and Lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest
Additional Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston
Based on Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel, by arrangement with Turner Broadcasting Co., owner of the motion picture Grand Hotel
Directed by Michael Cooper
Choreographed by Noah Wood
Musical Direction by Ellie Jarrett Shattles
GRAND HOTEL, THE MUSICALA re-envisioned production from the ALCHEMY THEATRE at the WHISENHUNT AT ZACH THEATRE, Austin
First Performance Date 5/30/25 Last Performance Date 6/15/25 Number of Performances: 13 Fri & Sat evening and Sun matinee 5/30, 5/31, 6/1 Thur, Fri evening, Sat matinee & Sat evening and Sun matinee 6/5, 6/6, 6/7, 6/8 Thur, Fri evening, Sat matinee & Sat evening and Sun matinee 6/12, 6/13, 6/14, 6/15 The ALCHEMY THEATRE will be presenting all performances of GRAND HOTEL, THE MUSICAL at The Whisenhunt at ZACH. Rehearsals will begin April 1 with Tech Week scheduled for May 23 to May 29, 2025. Exact rehearsal dates and times during April and May will be determined by cast availability, but primarily rehearsals will be held on weeknights and weekend days. Please note there will be a required, heavier commitment to our Tech Week dates. AUDITIONS WILL BEGIN WITH ONLINE SUBMISSIONS: If you are interested in a particular role, please let us know by submitting the following:
PLEASE SUBMIT BY THE DEADLINE OF MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2025. Both your headshot and resume should be in PDF format and as attachments along with your video. Requests should be sent to the above address with a valid email address included for the purpose of return correspondence. IN-PERSON CALL-BACKS WILL BE HELD ON SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2, MONDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 3, and TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 4, 2025. Call-backs to include singing from the score, reading from character specific sides, and a dance combination taught by the choreographer. Please note that the dance sequences in the show may be based around popular social dances of the 1920s, such as the Charleston, Tango and Foxtrot, as well as tap, jazz, ballroom dance, basic ballet and freestyle movement. PAY: There is pay.
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