[NEohioPAL]Hawken opens Grand Hotel

[Patrick McCabe]

Hawken Players Society
Presents
The Winter Musical

GRAND HOTEL

Please come and join our delightful cast of 40 for our Winter Musical, Grand 
Hotel.   The musical is based on the novel by Vicki Baum with music and lyrics 
by Robert Wright and George Forrest.  Performances are February 14, 15, 21 and 
22 at 8:00PM in the Kennedy Auditorium on the campus of Hawken Upper School at 
the corner of Mayfield Road and County Line in Gates Mills.

Grand Hotel, set in Grand Hotel Berlin-the world's most expensive hotel- in 
1928.  The show features several interwoven stories about the lives of several 
guests, who each uniquely, has "time running out" in their own way.  The 
characters include an aging ballerina whose career and hope for love in her 
life is dwindling; her caretaker interested in a more meaningful relationship; 
an in debt Baron, who pretends to be rich and is tempted to steal to survive; 
an American businessman on the verge of bankruptcy and considering crooked 
ways; a desperate young office worker dreaming of Hollywood; a dying man 
interested in going out in a flourish; and an omnipresent narrator; a war 
veteran now unable to fit in to life.


The show is directed by Pat McCabe with musical direction by Gary Darrow and 
technical direction by Dave Glowacki..  The cast features 40 Hawken students 
of all ages, with seniors Tom Hull, Hannah Gardner, Jay Needham Jordan Fehr, 
Sebastian Orr, Jill Kirk and juniors Laura Kachurek, Abby Marsh and Gwendolyn 
Ellis in the lead roles.

As always, we need your support to maintain our theater program.  Patron 
Seating is available at all performances of Grand Hotel  and includes 
preferred seating as well as a special thank you in our AC Lobby.  Please fill 
out the form below to reserve your seats for Grand Hotel.  Ticket prices are 
$12 for patron seats and $5 for general admission.  Phone 440 423-2119 for 
tickets and information.