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| Grand Hotel: The Musical - Broadway Cast Recording | 
 enlarge | Artists: George Forrest, Maury Yeston
Creators: Robert Wright, Robert D. Renino, Allesandro Benetello, Anne Callahan, George / Wright, Robert Forrest, Randy Booth, Perry J. Cavari, Sharon Moe, Beth Ravin, Alex Rybeck, Sande Campbell, Walter Harper, Alan Raph, Burt Collins, Greg Ruvolo, John Bova, Maxine Roach, Richard Spencer, Earle Grubb
Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 22527
Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 61327
UPC: 090266132720
EAN: 0090266132720
ASIN: B000003FBP
Release Date: June 23, 1992
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| Customer Reviews:
 A really unusual show January 27, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is hard to sumerise exactly what Grand Hotel is about. It concerns the lives of the guests who stay at this famous Berlin hotel during the 1930's. While this is fascinating, it does mean that the score often has a tendancy to drift from character to character without much focus on them. This is undoubtedly not helped by the fact that it was written by a number of people and does feel as though it has been cobbled together in parts.However, despite this, there is something quite compelling about the recording. The music fits with the period when it has to, but also takes a Broadway approach to ballads and chorus numbers. All of the performers are faultless from the biting cynical doctor, the hopelessly in love couple, and the fading actress. It's not a CD that I listen to over and over again because it is quite hard to get in to, and very easy to turn off. However, with some concentration, it is possible to understand what is going on, and only then does the full scope of the score become apparent.
 second rate score, not worthy of the show itself July 3, 1999
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Grand Hotel was one of the most fascinating musicals of the 80's, a non-stop ballet brilliantly designed and directed. Unfortunately, the score is an absolute mediocrity. From the silly "Some Have, Some Have Not" to the pointless ballad "Bonjour Amour" to the derrivative "Maybe My Baby Loves Me" to any of the songs sung by the annoyingly throaty Karen Akers, this recording is simply irritating. The staging was the only good thing about this show, and that is something that cant be captured in a recording.
 VERY GRAND HOTEL November 8, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
IF you like a good Charelston you will love Grand Hotel.
The cast is fine, the music moving and the Bounus cut of the
late David Carrol singing Love Can't Happen makes it well worth
the price!
Very good November 14, 1998
I thoroughly enjoyed it. It renders the book very well, and some of the music is truly wonderful. Worth buying for the sake of "Love Can't Happen" alone.
Fab! May 14, 1999
I must say. When I first heard the score I said "TRASH!!!!!!" i said that because I normally don't like that swingy type of music. But I listen to it a lot now. And I must say the intensity of "Some Have Some Have Not" at the end of The LONG overture/prolouge "The Grand Parade" is so compelling that It just touches me. The tempo and the horns and the differnt singers singing really hits me as very dark.
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