The Official Goodbye Thread to the Edies/Grey Gardens (with closing pics)

NOW : See Closing pics on page. 3 (courtesy of GYPSY 1527- thanks



Grey Gardens, the unique musical inspired by the film documentary about two eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, will end its Broadway run July 29 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

Following the matinee, it will have played 307 performances and 33 previews.

The producers have expressed hope for a national tour and London production of the Doug Wright-Michael Korie-Scott Frankel musical, but no details about these productions have been announced.

Michael Greif (Rent) directed the three-time Tony Award-winning musical about real-life mother and daughter society women Edith and Edie Beale, Jackie O's aunt and cousin. The musical was a highly fictionalized account of their experience.

Raves and awards were showered on Christine Ebersole for playing 50ish Edith Bouvier Beale in Act One, and her middle-aged daughter, Edie, in Act Two. She took home the 2007 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Musical. Mary Louise Wilson was named Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her Act Two turn as the haggard, witchy but lovable Edith.

It's expected that Ebersole's work in the musical will be talked about for years to come — partly because she mimics so brilliantly what was captured in the 1975 film documentary that inspired the show. "Eccentric" doesn't begin to describe broken, nonconformist Little Edie in Act Two. (For costuming her, and others, designer William Ivey Long won the show's other 2007 Tony Award).-from playbill.com



Grey Gardens
307 performances
November 2, 2006 -July 29, 2007


at the Walter Kerr Theater



A bird cage I plan to hang
I'll get to that someday.
A bird cage for a bird who flew away............




Share your thoughts & special memories with "Grey Gardens" the musical

"I feel very stongly about momentos. Memorabilia I guess you'd call it..."
by little Edie (Grey Gardens-the musical )

Updated On: 7/30/07 at 02:08 AM

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One of the best shows I have had the pleasure to witness four times. One of the hardest working casts out there right now. Such a shame to see this piece of art go. We can only hope that it will live on in future productions. I wish the best of luck to the whole cast. I only wish I could be there today. Thank you Grey Gardens, for an amazing and emotional run!

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Best of luck to all!

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Best of luck to Grey Gardens and all involved with it. I am truly sad to see this wonderful piece of at close. Here's to a lengthy London/tour life! From now on, the Walter Kerr will always be the birdcage for the bird who flew away. Goodbye, Grey Gardens.

It's a shame great theatre like this has to close, but I wish the entire cast best of luck. With hopefull thoughts for the planned Tour and West End productions!

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I was a big fan of the documentary for years and the first time I saw Grey Gardens I actually cried when Christine came out as Little Edie for Revolutionary Costume. Christine is a genius and I'll miss her and Mary Louise Wilson and the rest of the cast. It's sad that it's closing but I couldn't be more thankful that the powers that be created GG and brought it to Broadway, and that I was here to see it.

sarah hyland is the real star of the show

I'm very disheartened today to think that this show has come and gone so quickly on the Great White Way.

But I'm happy that many of you have had the opportunity to appreciate it, as I have.

Here's to Grey Gardens!

Here's to the Edies!

Long may they "wave" in our hearts and minds.

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Thanks to the gay mafia at the Tony committee and the major papers, this splendid show lost the major Tony Awards to some other show that features hotties and loud music. It seems that new shows for adults by adults has little place on Broadway. Unless of course Matt Cavenaugh performed shirtless.

GG is the new "Follies," a show underappreciated in its Bway debut that will grow in stature over the years and will be revived to acclaim.

Props to the cast and the best of luck for future productions. It's a shame that in-fighting has caused this show to shutter. I am sure they could have replaced the leads with equally interesting performers like Cloris Leachman and Catherine O'Hara.

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Like two peas in a pod. See you in London Edie X

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My favorite musical of at least the last decade. I will miss this fascinating show terribly. It moved me in a way that mere words cannot express. I will be at today's closing performance cheering on this exquisite cast.

Updated On: 7/30/07 at 11:36 AM

Edie is flying away. That is so sad.

Congratulations on a show that will be remembered for a very long time.
I do wish the Playbill article had not used the word "mimic" regarding Ebersole's performance. It was so much more than that. So VERY much more.

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