Shows · Grey Gardens · Walter Kerr Theatre, 2006
Grey Gardens, 2006
Opened November 2, 2006
Closed July 29, 2007
307 performances
Original
Broadway
3 Tony Awards
Of the productions that opened in the 2000s, this had the 72nd longest run.
Who was in it7 named
Creative team
- Director
- Michael Greif
- Choreographer
- Jeff Calhoun
- Orchestrations
- Bruce Coughlin 2
Tony Awards 3 from 10 nominations
Recordings 3 released while this run was on
Around this production
Grey Gardens is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, produced in 2006 and based on the 1975 documentary of the same title about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale ("Big Edie") and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie") by Albert and David Maysles. The Beales were Jacqueline Kennedy's aunt and cousin, respectively. Set at Grey Gardens, the Bouviers' mansion in East Hampton, New York, the musical tracks the progression of the two women's lives from their original status as rich and socially polished aristocrats to their eventual largely isolated existence in a home overrun by cats and cited for repeated health code violations. H…
Mary Louise Wilson of Grey Gardens brandishes her Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 470
“In this first act of the past, he immediately grasped an opportunity to forge the myth, originate dialogue and situations based on the truth—but not cinema verité—and a chance to stylize the past in the manner of a Philip Barry drawing room.”
B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 315“Hominy Grits” was a takeoff on the type of song that erstwhile white songwriters wrote in a southern black style. “Two Peas in a Pod” was a list song that incorporated period references (“Like Crosby and Hope; a rosy complexion and Ivory Soap.”) They also made room for an Irving Berlin–like ditty, “Will You?” in which…
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