to steal his wallet, hears Flaemmchen's cries next door and walks into her room to defend her while still holding Preysing's wallet. After a struggle, Preysing kills the Baron with the gangster's gun. Preysing is arrested. Raffaela struggles with how to tell Grushinskaya that her lover is dead and ultimately decides not to, leaving Grushinskaya ecstatic to see him at the train station when she leaves. Otto offers to take Flaemmchen to Paris; he has plenty of money now so that they can enjoy the good life for as much time as he has left, and she realizes that she is fond of him. Erik has a son and finds out that his wife came through the labor just fine. Doctor Otternschlag observes: "Grand Hotel, Berlin. Always the same – people come, people go – One life ends while another begins – one heart breaks while another beats faster – one man goes to jail while another goes to Paris – always the same. ... I'll stay – one more day." Roles and original cast The Doorman – Charles Mandracchia Colonel-Doctor Otternschlag - Grievously wounded by gas and shrapnel in WWI; a cynical, ruined man – John Wylie The Countess - Ballroom Dancer – Yvonne Marceau The Gigolo - Ballroom Dancer – Pierre Dulaine Rohna - Hotel General Manager; a martinet – Rex D. Hays Erik - Intelligent young assistant concierge, ambitious, about to start a family – Bob Stillman The Bellboys - Georg Strunk, Kurt Kronenberg, Hans Bittner, Willibald (Captain) – Ken Jennings, Keith Crowningshield, Gerrit de Beer, J. J. Jepson, The Telephone Operators - Hildegarde Bratts, Sigfriede Holzhiem, Wolffe Bratts – Jennifer Lee Andrews, Suzanne Henderson, Lynnette Perry The Two Jimmys - Black American Entertainers – David Jackson and Danny Strayhorn Chauffeur - A gangster posing as a chauffeur – Ben George Zinnowitz - An attorney in Berlin – Hal Robinson Sandor - Hungarian Theatre impresario – Mitchell Jason Witt - Company Manager of Grushinskaya's ballet troupe – Michel Moinot Madame Peepee - Lavatory Attendant – Kathi Moss Hermann Preysing - General Director of a large textile mill; a solid burgher – Tim Jerome Flaemmchen (née Frieda Flamm) - A pretty young typist who has theatrical ambitions – Jane Krakowski Otto Kringelein - Not old, but mortally ill; a bookkeeper from a small town – Michael Jeter Baron Felix Von Gaigern - Young, athletic, charming, optimistic, broke –