Grand Hotel, Berlin 1928: In which the action takes place.

The Presentation of the Company: In which the audience is introduced to the Grand Hotel’s guests and staff as their lives begin to intertwine in “The Grand Parade” of life.

Scene 1 – The Grand Hotel Lobby and far below in the Scullery: In which the Baron cries out for life “As It Should Be.” The scullery workers lament that “Some Have, Some Have Not.” Kringelein expresses his courageous and final wish to be part of life “At the Grand Hotel” and have a “Table with a View.”

Scene 2 – The Moroccan Coffee Bar, over which The Jimmys preside and advance the age-old glimmer of hope that “Maybe My Baby Loves Me.”

Scene 3 – A corner of the Grand Hotel Ballroom: In which Grushinskaya suffers her daily barre, terrified she is losing her “Fire and Ice” while Raffaela contemplates their “Twenty-Two Years” together and looks forward to sharing a “Villa on a Hill.”

Scene 4 – The Ladies’ Powder Room: In which the Baron and Flaemmchen meet, flirt deliciously and agree to rendezvous, after which Flaemmchen confides to the girl in the mirror, “I Want to Go to Hollywood.”

Scene 5 – Men’s Washroom and the Hotel Bar: In which Preysing paces in panic and anxiety while gathering the courage to take “The Crooked Path.”

Scene 6 – The Baron’s Room: In which the Baron finds himself trapped in a snare set by his creditors. He yearns longingly for life “As It Should Be.”

Scene 7 – The Yellow Pavilion: In which the Baron and Flaemmchen complete their tryst. She then dances with the innocent Kringelein who melts in her able arms with the question “Who Couldn’t Dance with You?”

Scene 8 – The Hotel Conference Room: In which the desperate Preysing abandons his scruples and boldly lies to his stockholders about the Boston merger.

Scene 9 – Backstage at the Opera House: In which Grushinskaya collapses in emotional despair having received “No Encore.”

Scene 10 – The Financial Corner of the Lobby: In which the Baron convinces Kringelein that the 1928 American Stock Market is the soundest of all investments.

Scene 11 – The Roof of the Grand Hotel: In which the Baron uses the cloak of night to prowl the precipice in order to enter Grushinskaya’s suite in furtive search of her jewels.

Scene 12 – Grushinskaya’s Suite: In which she surprises the thieving Baron only to fall helplessly for his handsome charms. Their initial attraction proves they were both wrong when he insists that “Love Can’t Happen.”

Scene 13 – Raffaela’s Room: In which Grushinskaya’s lonely confidante contemplates “What You Need.”

Scene 14 – Grushinskaya’s Suite: In which the ballerina rejoices in her new-found love with a “good morning” to the world, “Bonjour Amour.”

Scene 15 – The Hotel Bar: In which the Charleston is danced because all are “H-A-P-P-Y” including Kringelein who joyfully insists “We’ll Take a Glass Together.”

Scene 16 – A Cross Corridor upstairs in the Hotel/the Doctor’s Room/Preysing’s Room/Flaemmchen’s adjoining Room/Kringelein’s Room/the Bedchamber of the Countess & the Gigolo: In which the Doctor sings “I Waltz Alone” and the Baron is shot. Dying, the Baron cries out to meet his beloved ballerina with “Roses at the Station.”

Scene 17 – Grushinskaya’s Suite/Kringelein’s Room/Preysing’s Room: In which Raffaela wonders “How Can I Tell Her?” as she valiantly attempts to hide the truth from her mistress.

Scene 18 – The Lobby of the Grand Hotel: In which we learn a baby is born (“As It Should Be”) while the workers again lament that “Some Have, Some Have Not” as “The Grand Parade” goes on.

The Grand Finale: In which the audience is invited to be part of “The Grand Waltz” of life.