VIDEO: Inside Look At GREY GARDENS On CBS SUNDAY MORNING

By: Jul. 13, 2015
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Inside a new production of a recent Broadway cult favorite and all the history behind it!

Documentary-based musical drama GREY GARDENS is set to be presented in a new production headlined by iconic Tony Award-winning Broadway star Betty Buckley later this summer and a new behind the scenes video highlighting the show is now available to view, featuring Rachel York and more while focusing primarily on the history of the unusual real-life documentary.

Of note, the new GREY GARDENS runs August 4 through August 30 at the Baystreet Theater in Sag Harbor, NY.

The official description of the episode was as follows: "CBS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD heads to the coastline of New York's Long Island for its annual "Sunday at the Shore" edition to be broadcast July 12 (9:00 AM, ET) on the CBS Television Network. Lee Cowan anchors the broadcast from the famed Grey Gardens estate in East Hampton, N.Y. The summer fun-themed broadcast features Cowan's profile of country singer Alan Jackson and a look at the complicated history of Grey Gardens, which was built in 1897, previously owned by relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and recently restored by journalist Sally Quinn."

GREY GARDENS, the musical, with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, was 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. The show opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on February 10, 2006 and ran through April 30, 2006. Directed by Michael Greif with choreography by Jeff Calhoun, it starred Christine Ebersole, Mary Louise Wilson, and John McMartin and earned five Lucille Lortel Award nominations and twelve Drama Desk Award nominations.

Christine Ebersole received the Obie Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, a Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics' Circle, and the Drama League Award for Performance of the Year (2006) for her dual roles of Edith and Edie Beale in the Off-Broadway production.

The show opened on Broadway on November 2, 2006 at the Walter Kerr Theatre and closed on July 29, 2007, after 307 performances and 33 previews.

More information on GREY GARDENS at the Baystreet Theater is available here.

View the new CBS THIS MORNING video here or below.



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