Grand Tour, The
- Full Length Musical, Comedy, 1940s / WWII
- 29M or F
- ISBN: 9780573681004
In 1940 France, an unlikely pair team up to evade the approaching Nazis.
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Description
- Full Length Musical
- Comedy
- Time Period: 1940s / WWII
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Orchestra Size: Large
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre, High School/Secondary
In 1940 France, 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 aristocrat, 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 onto a train when the car breaks down. Accompanying them is Marianne, the Colonel's girlfriend who Jacobowsky falls in love with. But it is not to be.
REVIEWS:
Little Jacobowsky, a Polish Jewish intellectual, has been one step ahead of the Nazis for years. Stjerbinsky is an aristocrat, 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 onto a train when the car breaks down. Accompanying them is Marianne, the Colonel's girlfriend who Jacobowsky falls in love with. But it is not to be.
REVIEWS:
"A splendid evening with tuneful lyrics."
New York Post
"Endearing, amusing and poignantly humane."
Time
"A first class Broadway musical."
WABC TV
Premiere Production:
The Grand Tour premiered on Broadway at the Palace Theatre in January, 1979 under the direction of Gerald Freedman.
Characters
- Casting: 29M or F
- Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Expandable casting, Room for Extras
- Casting Notes: Plus extras, singers and dancers
- Chorus Size: Large
MME. BOUFFIER
CZIESNO
COLONEL TADEUSZ BOLESLAV STJERBINSKY
SZABUNIEWICZ
CHAUFFEUR
CAPTAIN MEULLER
MME. VAUCLAINE
MARIANNE
CONDUCTOR
MME. MARVILLE
A PLEASANT WOMAN
HUGO THE HUNGARIAN HERCULES
MME. MANZONI
STILTWALKER
BARGEMAN
MAN WITH A FLOWER IN HIS LAPEL
PAPA CLAIRON
CLAUDINE
BRIDE'S MOTHER
BRIDE'S FATHER
BRIDE'S AUNT
BRIDE
GROOM
COMMISAIRE OF POLICE
PEDDLER
MOTHER MADELEINE
SISTER ROLAND
