Grey Gardens Blooms with Second Extension Through April 23

By: Mar. 10, 2006
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After selling out through the original closing date of March 26th and extending through April 9th, Playwrights Horizons' hit musical Grey Gardens will grow for another two weeks through April 23rd.

The show about eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy received mixed-to-positive reviews upon opening on March 7th, but drew raves for star Christine Ebersole. Grey Gardens began previews at the Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater on February 10th.

With a book by Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife), composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie, will also co-star Tony Award-winner Ebersole (Steel Magnolias, 42nd Street) and Mary Louise Wilson (The Women, Cabaret), as well as Sara Gettelfinger (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nine), Matt Cavenaugh (Urban Cowboy), Sarah Hyland (Paper Mill Playhouse's Annie), six-time Tony Award-nominee John McMartin (Sweet Charity, Follies), Michael Potts (Lennon), two-time Tony Award-nominee Bob Stillman (Grand Hotel) and Audrey Twitchell. Tony Award-nominee Michael Greif (Rent) directs.

"Grey Gardens concerns the deliciously eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who were once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register, and 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," according to Playwrights Horizons notes.

In the musical, Ebersole and Wilson respectively play Edith in 1941 and 1973, while Gettelfinger and Ebersole play Edie in those same years.

Grey Gardens' creative team includes Allen Moyer (sets), William Ivey Long (costumes), Peter Kaczorowski (lighting), Brian Ronan (sound), Wendall K. Harrington (projections), Bruce Coughlin (orchestrations) and Lawrence Yurman (musical direction).

For more information on Grey Gardens, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or visit www.playwrightshorizons.org.



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