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Grand Hotel

Aug 21 – Oct 7, 2001
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The Tony Award-winning musical makes its debut at Signature Theatre. The easy waltz of life transforms itself into the dangerous rhythms of the tango. It's Berlin, 1928. Aging ballerinas fall for penniless barons. Stenographers long for Hollywood. Poverty and war knock at the door. Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer brings his unique vision to this world of power, greed and failing beauty. Featuring an all-star Washington cast along with a twelve piece orchestra. This will be a Grand Hotel!

Book By Luther Davis
Music and Lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest
Based on Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel"
Additional Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston
Directed by Eric Schaeffer

The Cast

Eleasha Gamble

Operator

SIGNATURE: First You Dream, Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award Winner, Best Ensemble), Into the Woods, My Fair Lady, Urinetown, Follies, Grand Hotel, Gospel According to Fishman, The Christmas Carol Rag, The Rink, Company. OFF-BROADWAY: Zipper Theatre: Under the Bridge. DC AREA: Ford’s: Civil War (Helen Hayes Award Winner, Outstanding Supporting Actress), Little Shop Of Horrors, A Christmas Carol, Meet John Doe; Kennedy Center: Broadway: Three Generations; Arena Stage: The Women of Brewster Place; Round House: Once On This Island (Helen Hayes nomination); Toby’s: Ragtime (Helen Hayes nomination). REGIONAL: Alliance Theatre: The Women of Brewster Place; Perseverance Theatre: Hair. CABARET: Partial Eclipse, Ebony & Ivory. RECORDINGS: Euan Morton’s NewClear. EDUCATION: Catholic University.

Will Gartshore

Baron Felix Von Gaigern

SIGNATURE: A Little Night Music, The Fix, Show Boat, Merrily We Roll Along, My Fair Lady, Assassins, Sex Habits of American Women, Urinetown, Pacific Overtures, Elegies, Allegro, Twentieth Century, Follies, Grand Hotel, Side Show, Floyd Collins, Anyone Can Whistle in Concert. BROADWAY: Parade. OFF-BROADWAY: The Last Session, Encores!: Ziegfield Follies of 1936. DC AREA: Round House: Caroline, or Change; Ordinary Days; This; %(underline)Becky Shaw%; Orson’s Shadow; A Year with Frog and Toad; The World Goes ‘Round; Kennedy Center: The Great Gatsby, Passion; Theatre J: The Religion Thing; Woolly Mammoth: The Velvet Sky; Olney: Monster; Studio: Privates on Parade, A New Brain. Library of Congress: West Side Story 50th Anniversary, Stephen Sondheim's 70th Birthday. REGIONAL: Philadelphia Theatre Co: Elegies; Prince: Myths + Hymns, 3hree; Ahmanson: 3hree; Goodspeed: Fanny Hill, Lucky in the Rain. AWARDS: Three Helen Hayes Awards, nine nominations.
Thomas Adrian Simpson

Thomas Adrian Simpson

Rohna, the Grand Concierge

SIGNATURE: Jesus Christ Superstar, Three Penny Opera, Company, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, Les Misérables, The Witches of Eastwick, My Fair Lady, Pacific Overtures, Urinetown, Twentieth Century, 110 in the Shade (2004 Helen Hayes nomination), Floyd Collins, Grand Hotel, Over and Over, Vera. DC AREA: Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun, Mary T. & Lizzy K., My Fair Lady, The Light in the Piazza; Ford’s Theatre: 1776, Liberty Smith, Meet John Doe, A Christmas Carol; Shakespeare Theatre: Candide, The Boys From Syracuse; Kennedy Center: Orphie and the Book of Heroes; Olney Theatre Center: Sweeney Todd, Oh, Coward!, 1776, Oliver. TV: House of Cards, America’s Most Wanted. EDUCATION: UNC School of the Arts.
Stephawn P. Stephens

Stephawn P. Stephens

Jimmy

SIGNATURE: Billy Elliot, Dreamgirls (Helen Hayes Award nomination, Outstanding Resident Musical), Grand Hotel. REGIONAL: Kennedy Center: Earthrise, Color me Dark, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Alexander who is not, not, not going to move, Carmen Jones, Soul Possessed; Ford’s: 110 in the Shade; Metro Stage: Bessie’s Blues; Arena Stage: Smokey Joe’s Café, Crowns; Olney Theater Center: Little Shop of Horrors, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat; Round House Theatre: Once On This Island; African Continuum Theater Company: Amen Corner, Spunk; Anacostia Playhouse: A Snowy Nite at the Dew Drop Inn (Director); Karamu House Theater: The Black Nativity, The Swing Mikado, Runaways; The Cleveland Opera Company: Die Meistersinger, Die Fledermaus. EDUCATION: Karamu House Theater; Bowie State University: Musical Theater BS.
Liz Weber

Liz Weber

Elizaveta Grushinskaya Stand-by

SIGNATURE: Grand Hotel. DC AREA: 1st Stage: Quilters; Studio Theatre: Heroes of the Fourth Turning; Next Stop: Native Gardens; Workhouse for Performing Arts: The Drowsy Chaperone, Women Playing Hamlet; Pipeline Playwrights: It’s My Party. OTHERERT: The Kennedy Center: The Music Man in Concert; Barns at Rose Hill: Walton’s Façade. REGIONAL: Cumberland: Company. NATIONAL TOURS: Can Can, Oliver!, King and I. AWARDS: Helen Hayes Nomination Outstanding Ensemble for Quilters, Nomination Outstanding Lead Actress in Me and My Girl. EDUCATION: Catholic University of America Music Degree (BM).

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