Grey Gardens
- Book by Doug Wright
- Music by Scott Frankel
- Lyrics by Michael Korie
- Directed by Michael Greif
DOUG WRIGHT received the Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, a GLAAD Media Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama League Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for I Am My Own Wife, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 2003. For Grey Gardens, he was nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Book of a Musical. In 1995, Doug won an Obie Award for his play Quills. His screen adaptation was named Best Picture by the National Board of Review and nominated for three Academy Awards. Plays include The Stonewater Rapture, Interrogating the Nude, Watbanaland and Unwrap Your Candy. For career achievement, Doug was cited by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and awarded the Tolerance Prize from the Kulturforum Europa. Currently, he serves on the board of the New York Theatre Workshop and the Dramatists Guild Council. (As of November 2006)
SCOTT FRANKEL was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his work on Grey Gardens, which ran at Playwrights Horizons before transferring to Broadway in 2006. He has also written the music for Finding Neverland (UK premiere, 2012), Happiness (Lincoln Center Theatre commission), Doll (Ravinia Festival, Richard Rodgers Award) and Meet Mister Future, all with lyricist Michael Korie. Frankel is the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award and the Frederick Loewe Award. He was the 2011-2012 Frances and William Schuman Fellow at The MacDowell Colony and a graduate of Yale University. (As of May 2013)
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Grey Gardens (Playwrights Horizons, Broadway, OCC Award); Finding Neverland (Curve Theatre, England); The Grapes of Wrath (Minnesota Opera, Carnegie Hall, L.A. Walt Disney Concert Hall), Harvey Milk (San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, NYCO); Doctor Zhivago (Lyric Theatre, Sydney, upcoming NY); Happiness (LCT); Doll (Ravinia Festival, Chicago); Hopper's Wife (Long Beach California Opera); Kabbalah (BAM Next Wave Festival); Where's Dick? (Houston). This is his fifth collaboration with Scott Frankel. Korie serves on the council of The Dramatist Guild Fellows Program and teaches lyric writing at Yale. Awards include the Edward Kleban Award, Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award (As of May 2013).
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Playwrights Horizons: Grey Gardens, Spatter Pattern by Neal Bell. Recent credits include LaChiusa and Pearson's Giant (Public Theater/Dallas Theater Center); Tony Kushner's Angels in America (Signature Theatre) and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... (The Public/Signature); The Winter's Tale and Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte Theater). On Broadway he directed the Pulitzer Prize winning musicals Next to Normal (also at Second Stage/Arena) and Rent (also at NYTW, 1996; NWS, 2011) and Grey Gardens, receiving Tony nominations for each, and Never Gonna Dance. Michael received Obie Awards for Machinal, Rent, and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. Angels in America received the 2011 Lortel Award for Best Revival (As of May 2013).
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Once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register, the deliciously eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis are now East Hampton’s most notorious recluses, living in a dilapidated 28 room mansion. Facing an uncertain future, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter, “Little” Edie, are forced to revisit their storied past and come to terms with it - for better and for worse.
Featuring
Matt Cavenaugh
Christine Ebersole
Sara Gettelfinger
Sarah Hyland
John McMartin
Michael Potts
Bob Stillman
Audrey Twitchell
Mary Louise Wilson
Playwrights Horizons: Grey Gardens; Mud, River, Stone. Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Lennon. Off-Broadway: Mother Courage, The Tempest, Richard III, Arms and the Man, The Persians, Cabin in the Sky, The America Play, Twelfth Night, Rent. Film/TV: Conspiracy Theory, Stonewall, The Peacemaker, “True Detective,” “The Wire,” “Damages,” “Gotham.” Obie, Grammy awards. Kennedy Center Fellow. Graduate: Yale School of Drama.
(as of 08/23/16)
Creative Team
Allen Moyer
Scenic DesignerWilliam Ivey Long
Costume DesignerPeter Kaczorowski
Lighting DesignerBrian Ronan
Sound DesignerJudith Schoenfeld
Production Stage ManagerBroadway credits include The Lyons, After Miss Julie, Grey Gardens (Tony/Drama Desk Nominations, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood, The Little Dog Laughed, and Twelve Angry Men, among others. Off-Broadway credits include productions for the Public Theater, Second Stage, Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater, Signature Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, New Group/Second Stage, and the Drama Dept. Regional credits include productions for the Dallas Theatre Center, Huntington Theater, Guthrie Theater, The Goodman, Yale Rep, Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, Steppenwolf, Baltimore’s Center Stage, LA’s Center Theater Group, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. His extensive opera credits include work for the Metropolitan Opera (Orfeo ed Euridice, directed by Mark Morris), New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Scottish Opera, and the Wexford Festival (Ireland). He also worked with Mark Morris on Sylvia for San Francisco Ballet, and Romeo and Juliet, on Motifs of Shakespeare for MMDG. He received the 2006 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. For more information, visit allenmoyerdesign.com.
Photos of (1) Audrey Twitchell, Christine Ebersole, Sarah Hyland, Bob Stillman, John McMartin, Michael Potts, and Sara Gettelfinger; (2) Bob Stillman, Christine Ebersole, Matt Cavanaugh, Sarah Hyland, John McMartin, Audrey Twitchell, Sara Gettelfinger, and Michael Potts; (3) Christine Ebersole and Mary-Louise Wilson; and (4) Christine Ebersole and Mary-Louise Wilson by Joan Marcus.
Please welcome another first-class clairvoyant to the swelling ranks of those who dazzle by channeling dead celebrities on the stage and screen. Ms. Ebersole's performance is one of the most gorgeous ever to grace a musical.