Grey Gardens Question

Okay, I have now seen the Musical (and listened to the Recording MANY times before that). I also have the documentary and have seen it several times.

So many questions is "Are Edie and Edith talking to the Documentary Camera Crew in Act II?" I assumed so......just directing it towards the audience. Edie says "Oh, Hi......" at the beginning of Act II like she does in the documentary, so I assumed it was basically the same thing, just perhaps directing it to the audience.

Really?!?!?! I really enjoyed that Documentary!!!!!!

Oh, I'm not saying that it bothered me at all, I was just wondering if that's what they were doing.

I LOVED the show and I really hope that PBS or something like that decided to record it!!!!!!

One of the things that I loved was how Edie/Edith went to the window at the end of the first and second Acts, as if she were trapped in Grey Gardens!!!!!!

i think that the audience is supposed to be replacing/in the place of the film crew.

"Mother, it's the Maysles!!!!!!"

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What poor taste.

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If you watch the scene early in the documentary that the whole "Revolutionary Costume" bit is derived from it's obvious that in the Act 2 opening Edie is talking to the Maysles. The script uses some of the exact lines from the documentary ("Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono...")

This is one thing that's confusing if you haven't seen the documentary. It seems that Edie is coming out and having a friendly chat with a group of strangers standing outside of Grey Gardens, which is the last thing she ever would have done.

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