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The Grand Tour
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w, 5m, 20 any gender (adult)
Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble
Based on S.N. Behrman’s play Jacobowsky and the Colonel, this tuneful Jerry Herman musical features a clever Jewish refugee, a bombastic Polish Colonel and a charming French woman as they try to evade the Nazis in occupied France.
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Cast Size
4w, 5m, 20 any gender (adult) -
Duration
120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Adventure, Adaptation (Literature), Period -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
In France, 1940, an unlikely pair team up to evade the approaching Nazis. Little Jacobowsky, a Polish Jewish intellectual, has been one step ahead of the Nazis for years. Stjerbinsky is an aristocratic, anti-Semitic Polish colonel who’s trying to get to England. Jacobowsky has a car but can’t drive; the colonel can. And so begins their adventurous journey – set against a backdrop of lively and lovely songs and dances – that takes them to a carnival, a Jewish wedding and, when the car breaks down, onto a train. Accompanying them is Marianne, the colonel’s girlfriend with whom Jacobowsky falls in love. But it is not to be.
History
Cast Attributes
Performing Groups
- Time Period 1940s/WWII
- SettingBetween Paris and the Atlantic Coast of France. June, 1940.
- Features Period Costumes
- Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
- Cautions
- Gun Shots
Media
“Endearing, amusing and poignantly humane.” – TIME
“A splendid evening with tuneful lyrics.” – New York Post
“A first-class Broadway musical.” – WABC-TV
Music
Music Samples
- Musical Style Classic Broadway
- Vocal DemandsEasy
- Orchestra Size Large
- Chorus Size Large
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Authors
Jerry Herman
Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage Aux Folles are home to some of the most popular, most-often performed and most successful musical hero(in)es of all time, and have given Jerry Herman (1931-2019) the distinction of being the only composer/lyricist in history to have had three ...
Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart (1924-1987) scored on Broadway the first time when he won a Tony Award for his Bye Bye Birdie libretto. He was the librettist for Carnival (Drama Critics Circle Award) and Hello, Dolly!, which earned him both a Tony and Drama Critics prize. Stewart also wrote ...
Mark Bramble
Mark Bramble was nominated for a 2001 Tony Award for his work on 42nd Street. He began his theatrical career working for David Merrick. He directed 42nd Street in London, Tokyo, Sydney and Amsterdam and is the author of Barnum (Tony Award nomination for Best Book and Best Mus ...