Frankel: Grey Gardens - A New Musical

 
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SCOTT FRANKEL
Frankel: Grey Gardens - A New Musical
Matt Cavenaugh & Christine Ebersole / Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording

[ P.S. Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 22 August 2006

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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. However, its more central purpose is to untangle the complicated dynamics of their dysfunctional mother/daughter relationship.

The musical 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. It received mixed reviews, but attracted particularly good reviews for Ebersole and Wilson. It 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.

For Broadway buffs: This is a very rare recording (now withdrawn) of the very original off-Broadway cast.

Note: Outer cardboard box has some minor wear

Tracks:

1.Toyland

2.The Five-Fifteen

3.Body Beautiful Beale

4.Mother, Darling

5.Better Fall Out of Love

6.Being Bouvier

7.Hominy Grits

8.Peas in a Pod

9.Drift Away

10.The Five-Fifteen (Reprise) / Miss Porter's Anthem

11.Tomorrow's Woman

12.Daddy's Girl

13.Will You?

14.The Revolutionary Costume for Today

15.The Cake I Had

16.Entering Grey Gardens

17.The House We Live In

18.Jerry Likes My Corn

19.Around the World

20.Choose to Be Happy

21.Around the World (Reprise)

22.Another Winter in a Summer Town

23. Peas in a Pod (Reprise)