Photo Flash: First Look at Jenna Russell and Sheila Hancock in West End's GREY GARDENS

By: Dec. 14, 2015
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Photos have been released this morning of Sheila Hancock as Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and Jenna Russell as Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale in the eagerly awaited European première of Grey Gardens. Check out a first look below!

Based on an iconic 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens, with Book by Doug Wright, Music by Scott Frankel, Lyrics by Michael Korie, tells the spectacular real life rise and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's aunt and cousin, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale.

Starting in 1941 at an engagement party at Grey Gardens, the Bouvier's mansion in East Hampton, Long Island, the musical tracks the progression of the two women's lives from American aristocrats to reclusive social outcasts living in such squalid conditions, in a home overrun by cats, that the Health Department deemed the mansion 'unfit for human habitation'.

Grey Gardens, produced by Danielle Tarento and directed by Thom Southerland, the award-winning team behind Grand Hotel, Titanic, Parade and Mack & Mabel, will open for a 6-week season in The Large at Southwark Playhouse from Saturday 2 January, 2016.


The rest of the cast are: Billy Boyle, Aaron Sidwell, Jeremy Legat, Ako Mitchell, Rachel Anne Rayham and child actors Alana Hinge, Grace Jenkins, Rebecca Nardin and Eleanor Waldron.

The full creative team are: Director Thom Southerland, Musical Supervisor Simon Lee, Musical Director Michael Bradley, Choreographer Lee Proud, Set Designer Tom Rogers, Lighting Designer Howard Hudson, Sound DesignerAndrew Johnson, Costume Designer Jonathan Lipman, Producer/Casting Director Danielle Tarento.

Photo Credit: SCOTT RYLANDER



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