September 15 - October 2, 2011

Grey Gardens

book by Doug Wright
music by Scott Frankel
lyrics by Michael Korie

In 1941 Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (“Big Edie”) and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale (“Little Edie”) were the toast of East Hampton society. The aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier (who would later become Jackie Kennedy) played hostess at their palatial mansion, Grey Gardens. How the two ended up living in squalor with numerous cats and raccoons in the neglected home became very public in 1971 through a series of tabloid articles, and later became the subject of a documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. This hauntingly original musical based on speculation of their heyday and the 1975 documentary will transport you to the lap of American royalty and their subsequent fall from grace. Nominated for 10 Tony awards in 2007, this critically-acclaimed modern masterpiece of musical theatre explores the comically dark side of a mother-daughter relationship gone horribly awry.