Grand Hotel (musical) - Roles and Original Cast

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 conceierge, 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 – Timothy 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 – David Carroll
  • Raffaela - Confidante, Secretary, and sometimes dresser to Elizaveta Grushinskaya – Karen Akers
  • Elizaveta Grushinskaya - The still-beautiful, world-famous, about-to-retire Prima Ballerina – Liliane Montevecchi
  • Scullery Workers: Gunther Gustafsson, Werner Holst, Franz Kohl, Ernst Schmidt – Walter Willison, David Elledge, William Ryall, Henry Grossman
  • Hotel Courtesan – Suzanne Henderson
  • Trudie - A Maid – Jennifer Lee Andrews
  • Detective – William Ryall

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