Tony night, GREY GARDENS is performing...

*gasp*

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*ponders why?*

Yay!
REVOLUTIONARY COSTUME will get the tv viewers undivided attention.
Can't wait. (I've only seen the show once.)

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I wish they would do the beginning of "Entering Grey Gardens" into "Revolutionary Costume."

My ideal choice would be the dialogue scene with Ebersole and Wilson where they are arguing and speaking over each other about why she left and came back and is threatening to leave again. Do that into a cut-down version of "Around the World."

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I love Act I and especially like listening to The Five Fifteen, but the show comes to life when she sings Revolutionary Costume. It's shocking and one realizes she/he must start paying very close attention. Perfect choice for people who've never seen the show.

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I was hoping for Another Winter in a Summertown!

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Around The World would have been better & maybe brought a few more people to see it

Look for it to close within 3 months unless it sweeps

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Can you really speak for all viewers?

Wow. I wish I could do that.

I actually believe it's an interesting decision and will serve to intrigue the viewers who haven't seen in and perhaps serve as motivation.

STAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!

There's nothing worse, I tell ya.

STAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!

S-T-A-U-N-C-H.

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I will say, though, that I was really interested in the show after seeing the Drama Desk performance on Youtube.

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I just didn't want this to happen because she did the same exact thing on the Drama Desks last year. I wanted to see something different now.

It's like Mary Louise Wilson who is giving a totally brilliant performance, is forgotten.

Quibb, but the point people are making about it being show specific is that the Tony performance needs to be used as a marketing tool, and seeing "Revolutionary Costume" on its own leaves an outside audience pretty clueless. It doesn't encourage them to go one way or another. When people are sitting in the theatre at the beginning of Act II, they have already paid their money. The number performed on the Tony Awards needs to entice the average TV viewer to buy tickets to the show. A number like "The Five-Fifteen" is a traditional upbeat musical theatre number. That's what gets people excited and wanting to see more. Something that makes them want to get up from their couch and spend $100 to dress up, go out and have an evening worthwhile of those sacrifices. "Revolutionary Costume" on its own will only appeal to a very specific group, if that. I think that it may not only turn away the people who are not familiar with the documentary, but also the people who are obsessed with the documentary. Without Act I and the rest of Act II cushioning it between them, the number leaves people with a big question mark above their head.

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