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‘Grand Hotel’ at Kokandy Productions: Lobby teeming with life, fraught with secret regrets

May 21, 2018 – 10:37 pm
Feature 2

Review: I’ve always loved “Grand Hotel,” since I first saw the 1932 film with its incredible all-star cast that only begins with Greta Garbo, John Barrymore and Joan Crawford. In 1989, the film, based on a novel by Vicki Baum and a play by William A. Blake, was transmuted quite successfully into the musical that Kokandy Productions now offers in a concept and cast that get right at the poignant heart of the story. ★★★★