Grey Gardens The Musical

The award-winning Broadway musical Grey Gardens makes it European premiere at London’s Southwark Playhouse.

Grey Gardens the hilarious and bittersweet musical about Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis’ eccentric family and based on Albert and David Maysles 1975 iconic documentary is to receive its UK premiere in the West End in early 2016.

STORY

Based on the 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, the musical tells the story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis. Set in 1941 and 1973 at the Bouvier mansion in East Hampton, this bold musical follows a mother and daughter on their hilarious and heart-breaking journey from glamorous aristocrats to notorious recluses in a crumbling house filled with memories and cats.

Grey Gardens will play from 2 January 2016 until 6 February 2016 at Southwark Playhouse.

CAST

Olivier Award winning West End stars Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell star alongside Aaron Sidwell, Billy Boyle, Jeremy Legat, Ako Mitchell and Rachel Anne Rayham. The cast is completed by child actors Alana Hinge, Grace Jenkins, Rebecca Nardin and Eleanor Waldron.

CREATIVES

Grey Gardens features music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie and a book by Doug Wright. The production is directed by Thom Southerland with choreography by Lee Proud, set design by Tom Rogers, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Andrew Johnson and costume design by Jonathan Lipman.

REVIEWS

★★★★ Smart and intriguing – Financial Times
★★★★ Sheila Hancock is superb – Daily Telegraph
★★★★ A triumph – Evening Standard
★★★★ Strongly recommended. – The Independent
★★★★ A hauntingly textured musical.. superbly acted production – The Stage
★★★★ – The Observer
★★★ High Society meets What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – The Guardian

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Official London Theatre tickets for  Grey Gardens at the Southwark Playhouse Borough, London

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Reviews round-up: Grey Gardens at Southwark Playhouse

A reviews round-up for Grey Gardens at Southwark Playhouse The highly anticipated European premiere of Grey Gardens has now opened at Southwark Playhouse. Based on the 1975 iconic documentary by Albert and David Maysles, Grey Gardens is a hilarious and bittersweet musical about Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis' eccentric family - Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale. Directed by Thom Southerland, Grey Gardens has been a hit with the critics and predominately due to the ingenious castings of award-winning actresses Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell. Russell’s performance is ‘superlative’ and anyone who saw her in Urine Town can easily imagine her enveloping such an eccentric role. Whilst mainly consigned to the second act Hancock’s performance is ‘superb’; a ‘touching and unsettling presence as Edie in arthritic old age. Aaron Sidwell, most recently in Green Day’s punk rock musical American Idiot artfully plays the dashing young suitor. Critics were quick to point out the first act of Doug Wright’s book needs work, however the second act hits the mark with plenty of comedy gold moments. Grey Gardens runs until 6 February 2016 at Southwark Playhouse.

First Look: Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell in Grey Gardens

First look at production images of Sheila Hancock & Jenna Russell in Grey Gardens The Musical at Southwark Playhouse Production images have been released of Sheila Hancock & Jenna Russell in the European premiere of Grey Gardens at Southwark Playhouse. Based on the 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, the musical tells the story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis. Set in 1941 and 1973 at the Bouvier mansion in East Hampton, this bold musical follows a mother and daughter on their hilarious and heart-breaking journey from glamorous aristocrats to notorious recluses in a crumbling house filled with memories and cats. Grey Gardens will play from 2 January 2016 until 6 February 2016 at Southwark Playhouse.

Casting announced for Grey Gardens

Final casting has been announced for the European première of acclaimed Broadway musical Grey Gardens Aaron Sidwell, Billy Boyle, Jeremy Legat, Ako Mitchell and Rachel Anne Rayham will join the previously announced Olivier Award-winning West End stars, Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell.  Also in the cast are child actors Alana Hinge, Grace Jenkins, Rebecca Nardin and Eleanor Waldron. Billy Boyle, who has just finished two years playing Grandpa George in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, is a veteran of the West End stage having played leading roles in over 15 hit shows from his big break in Maggie May in 1964 to Barnaby in Hello, Dolly! at The Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Maurice in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Dirty Dancing. Aaron Sidwell joins the cast direct from starring as Johnny in Green Day’s American Idiot at the Arts Theatre. His other starring roles include Loserville (Garrick), Cool Rider (Duchess Theatre) and Carl Bruner in Ghost The Musical. He played Steven Beale in over 100 episodes of EastEnders. Jeremy Legat most recently played Camille in Thérèse Raquin at Finborough Theatre and Park Theatre. Ako Mitchell’s West End roles include Mufasa in The Lion King, Sweaty Eddie in Sister Act, Gabriel in Fences and Mitch in Jamie Lloyd’s première of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Donmar Warehouse Broadway musical Grey Gardens is based on an iconic 1975 documentary, telling the spectacular real life rise and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale. The story was made into an award winning film by HBO starring Drew Barrie More as Edie and Jessica Lange as Edith in 2009. Grey Gardens is directed by Thom Southerland with choreography by Lee Proud, set design by Tom Rogers, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Andrew Johnson and costume design by Jonathan Lipman. Grey Gardens will play a limited 6 week run from 2 January 2016 until 6 February 2016. For more info click here

Grey Gardens the musical is coming to London’s West End

Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie's 2006 musical Grey Gardens is to receive its UK premiere next year in London’s West End. Grey Gardens is an adaptation of the 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles about two reclusive upper class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, and their descent from grandeur to one of squalor, living in a derelict, vermin infested mansion in the Hamptons. Their story made national headlines when it was revealed these ladies were the aunt and first cousin of the former US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Grey Gardens, with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie opened in New York in 2006 transferring to Broadway in the same year, becoming the first Broadway musical to be adapted from a documentary. The production won a Tony Award for Best Costume and the two leads Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson won Tony's for their performances. More recently HBO made a television film of Grey Gardens starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore which went on to win six Primetime Emmys and two Golden Globes. Casting is yet to be announced however, it was reported earlier this year that Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell were in negotiations to play the lead roles of Big Eddie and Little Eddie with Thom Southerland directing the production potentially at Southwark Playhouse Theatre.

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