#26
Posted: 1/12/07 at 6:38am
Hello, all,
I am a newcomer here. I am a huge Grey Gardens fan. (Only seen it 4 times and going back in Feb. for #5!) Anyway, the posts in this thread are so reflective and incredibly deep. It's so refreshing to see a show that people connect with on a personal level. Here's how I do: I feel like Little Edie. My mom and I are very much alike and I even do the same thing she has for a living. Now, I'm beginning to realize that I am not my mom and I've got to move out of momma's house. I'll go nuts if I do stay. To make things even more ironic, I want to move to NYC. (I live in Florida right now and hate it.) I do feel imprisoned in a way. I just feel what Edie does. (Not that my mom is nearly as needy as Edith-she's just as obnoxious sometimes and as critical!) But, I feel, like Edie says at the end of Act I: "I can't stay another second. If I do, I'll vanish. I'm not your daughter, I'm your shadow!"
Oh, and Ebersole perfectly conveys that trapped feeling in Act 2.
I am a newcomer here. I am a huge Grey Gardens fan. (Only seen it 4 times and going back in Feb. for #5!) Anyway, the posts in this thread are so reflective and incredibly deep. It's so refreshing to see a show that people connect with on a personal level. Here's how I do: I feel like Little Edie. My mom and I are very much alike and I even do the same thing she has for a living. Now, I'm beginning to realize that I am not my mom and I've got to move out of momma's house. I'll go nuts if I do stay. To make things even more ironic, I want to move to NYC. (I live in Florida right now and hate it.) I do feel imprisoned in a way. I just feel what Edie does. (Not that my mom is nearly as needy as Edith-she's just as obnoxious sometimes and as critical!) But, I feel, like Edie says at the end of Act I: "I can't stay another second. If I do, I'll vanish. I'm not your daughter, I'm your shadow!"
Oh, and Ebersole perfectly conveys that trapped feeling in Act 2.
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
