Book by Doug Wright. Music by Scott Frankel. Lyrics Michael Korie. The original Broadway production is opened on 3 October 2006 with direction by Michael Grief and musical staging by Jeff Calhoun. The production closed on 29 July 2007, running for 307 performances.
Synopsis and Musical Numbers
Once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register, the deliciously eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis are now East Hampton’s most notorious recluses, living in a dilapidated 28-room mansion. Facing an uncertain future, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter, Little Edie, are forced to revisit their storied past and come to terms with it – for better, and for worse.
MUSICAL NUMBERS: TOYLAND, THE FIVE-FIFTEEN, BODY BEAUTIFUL BEALE, MOTHER DARLING, BETTER FALL OUT OF LOVE, BEING BOUVIER, HOMINY GRITS, PEAS IN A POD, DRIFT AWAY, THE FIVE-FIFTEEN (REPRISE), MISS PORTER’S ANTHEM, TOMORROW’S WOMAN, DADDY’S GIRL, WILL YOU?, THE REVOLUTIONARY COSTUME FOR TODAY, THE CAKE I HAD, ENTERING GREY GARDENS, THE HOUSE WE LIVE IN, JERRY LIKES MY CORN, AROUND THE WORLD, CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY, AROUND THE WORLD (REPRISE), ANOTHER WINTER IN A SUMMER TOWN, PEAS IN A POD (REPRISE)
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Purchases from Amazon.com
From left to right above: 1. Grey Gardens Original Off Broadway Cast Recording. 2. Bright Lights, Big City Original Broadway Cast Recording (featuring Christine Ebersole). 3. Tip Toes/Tell Me More Double Disc Orginal Studio Cast Recordings (featuring Christine Ebersole). 4. Grey Gardens Original Film DVD.
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