The run closed July 29, 2007
- Opened
- November 2, 2006
- Closed
- July 29, 2007
- Performances
- 307
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Todd Haimes Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 70th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it7 named
Michael Potts
Bob Stillman
5 of these 7 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 2 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters13 roles recorded
Mary Louise Wilson "Big" Edie Beale
Christine Ebersole "Little" Edie Beale
Christine Ebersole "Big" Edie Beale
Bob Stillman George Gould Strong
Michael Potts Brooks, Sr.
Sarah Hyland Jacqueline Bouvier
Audrey Twitchell Lee Bouvier
Sara Gettelfinger "Little" Edie Beale
Matt Cavenaugh Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
John McMartin J.V. "Major" Bouvier
Michael Potts Brooks Jr.
Matt Cavenaugh Jerry
John McMartin Norman Vincent Peale
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Creative team
- Director
- Michael Greif
- Choreographer
- Jeff Calhoun
- Orchestrations
- Bruce Coughlin
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 3 from 10 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
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. H…
Mary Louise Wilson of Grey Gardens brandishes her Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 470
“In this first act of the past, he immediately grasped an opportunity to forge the myth, originate dialogue and situations based on the truth—but not cinema verité—and a chance to stylize the past in the manner of a Philip Barry drawing room.”
Speaker not recorded. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 315“Hominy Grits” was a takeoff on the type of song that erstwhile white songwriters wrote in a southern black style. “Two Peas in a Pod” was a list song that incorporated period references (“Like Crosby and Hope; a rosy complexion and Ivory Soap.”) They also made room for an Irving Berlin–like ditty, “Will You?” in which…
Speaker not recorded. B007l4owcu Ebok Peter Filichia, p. 316- Ebersole won a Tony Award for playing Dorothy Brock in the 2001 revival of 42nd Street and captivated audiences and critics for her riveting lifelike portrayal of the older “Little” Edie Beale and the younger Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens (2006). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 137
- The Scottsboro Boys (2010), Follies (the 2011 Broadway revival), The Last Ship (2014), and The Visit (2015) quickly closed, and the critically acclaimed Grey Gardens (2006) could manage no more than nine months of performances. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 13
- Sadly, few serious musicals for adults were successful, and so A Catered Affair (2008), The Scottsboro Boys (2010), The Last Ship (2014), and The Visit (2015) quickly floundered; others such as Passion and Grey Gardens (2006) ran for only a few months The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 172
- For the Off-Broadway production of Grey Gardens that moved to Broadway in 2006, he played “Major” Bouvier. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 473
- Grey Gardens (2006) under subsequent leadership. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 612
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