Grey Gardens - The Musical
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Composer: Scott FrankelConductor: Lawrence Yurman
Orchestra: Grey Gardens Pit Orchestra
Performer: Audrey Twitchell
Performer: Bob Stillman
Performer: Christine Ebersole
Performer: John McMartin
Performer: Mary Louise Wilson
Performer: Matt Cavanaugh
Performer: Michael Potts
Performer: Sara Gettelfinger
Performer: Sarah Hyland
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Music Label: P.S. Classics
Soundtracks:
- Toyland
- The Five-Fifteen
- Body Beautiful Beale
- Mother Darling
- Better Fall Out of Love
- Being Bouvier
- Hominy Grits
- Peas in a Pod
- Drit Away
- The Five-Fifteen (reprise)/Miss Porter's Anthem
- Tomorrow's Woman
- Daddy's Girl
- Will You?
- The Revolutionary Costume for Today
- The Cake I Had
- Entering Grey Gardens
- The House We Live In
- Jerry Likes My Corn
- Around the World
- Choose to be Happy
- Around the World (reprise)
- Another Winter in a Summer Town
- Peas in a Pod (reprise)
Music reviews of Grey Gardens - The Musical
Music Review: Why didn't this beat Spring Awakening?
Rating: 5 Stars
I am sorry to fans of the aforementioned show, but I thoroughly fail to see why the American Theatre Wing chose Spring Awakening as Best Musical and thought it deserved the Tony for Best Score. Spring Awakening isn't a Broadway score - its '90s pop/punk with profanity-laced lyrics. Grey Gardens, with its hummable melodies, quirky lyrics, and history-making performances by Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson is an infinitely better show - I challenge any listener to successfully get "The Five-Fifteen" or "The Revolutionary Costume For Today" out of their heads. Like many good shows, however, it was above many NYC tourists' and young theatre-goers heads, but happily, the critics "got" it. It reminds me of Sunday in the Park With George in that way: both lost the Tony to musicals that were popular, yes, good even, but not better. Both shows also have two chronologically different acts and both originated off-Broadway at Playwright's Horizons. Anyway, this show is suberb, with a thought-provoking and somewhat tragic story about a mother and daughter's relationship and why we make the decisions that we do. Listen and be taken in by Grey Gardens!
Description of Grey Gardens - The Musical
GREY GARDENS proclaimed the #1 Show of the Year by Time Magazine is preserved here in its Original Broadway Cast Recording. The show had been previously recorded following its off-Broadway premiere in the spring of 2006 (and its cast album released by PS Classics in August of 2006), but this new recording features the new songs and new cast members that were added for its Broadway transfer last fall. The new GREY GARDENS opened on Broadway on November 2, 2006, to rave reviews, led by Ben Brantley in The New York Times, who called it an experience no passionate theatergoer should miss! Starring Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole and Tony Award nominee Mary Louise Wilson, it subsequently appeared on over 25 Best of 2006 lists, including #1 Show of the Year (Time), Best Musical of the Year (USA Today, Entertainment Weekly) and Performance of the Year (The New York Times, New York) for Ms. Ebersole. In addition to the new songs and new performances, this Original Broadway Cast Recording also features an all-new 32-page full-color booklet complete with lyrics and Broadway production photos.Based on the Maysles brothers' cult 1975 documentary of the same name, this musical is an endearing--and sometimes genuinely heartwrenching--oddity propelled by Christine Ebersole's exceptional, for-the-history-books performance. The movie followed the kooky duo of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Little Edie Beale, as they lived with their 52 cats in a derelict East Hampton mansion. The show's first act, set in 1941, is a prologue of sorts, while the second act, set in 1973, follows the movie closely. Ebersole plays Edith in Act I (which she concludes in dazzling manner with "Will You?") and Little Edie in Act II (when Mary Louise Wilson comes in to play the mother). And while Wilson is superb, this is Ebersole's show. Technically, she is flawless--just listen to the way she changes her voice between the acts--but she also makes Little Edie a poignant eccentric, a lost soul stuck in a world of deluded, decaying grandeur. It all peaks in the poignant "Around the World," the show's best song and an Ebersole tour de force. Note that this recording documents the Off-Broadway production; the show transferred to Broadway in the fall of 2006 with a slightly altered first act. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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