Grey Gardens

Synopsis: Once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register, the deliciously eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis are now East Hampton’s most notorious recluses. Facing an uncertain future, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter, 'Little' Edie, are forced to revisit their storied past and come to terms with it – for better, and for worse.

NEW YORK TIMES:
"“Da-da-da-da-dum.” Not exactly a phrase that gleams with Shakespearean eloquence, is it? But once you’ve heard Christine Ebersole sing it — and believe me, this is an experience no passionate theatergoer should miss — “da-da-da-da-dum” is guaranteed to enter your personal memory bank of cherished quotations, the kind you summon when you’re feeling down and thwarted and need to smile."
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NEW YORK POST:
"It's a goodish musical, but not quite goodish enough - it first overdoses on cute nostalgia, but finally it's the score that does it in. You can't have a musical without the music."
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NEWSDAY:
""Grey Gardens," the musical about the bizarre cousin and aunt of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, has taken over the Walter Kerr Theatre as if to the manor born. This audacious interpolation of the 1975 cult-hit documentary has transferred from Playwrights Horizons with all of its original pleasures and several significant new ones."
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USA TODAY:
"It's hardly shocking that this slice of cinéma vérité, with its colorful characters and camp value, would strike someone as a great idea for a contemporary musical. What's surprising, and refreshing, are the ingenuity and sheer heart informing the new off-Broadway transfer Grey Gardens, which opened Thursday at the Walter Kerr Theatre."
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VARIETY:
"Broadway has been flooded with screen-to-stage adaptations in recent years, with more to come this season. While most shows take a primarily illustrative approach as they translate well-known characters and situations from one medium to the next, Doug Wright's work adapting David and Albert Maysles' cult 1975 documentary is far more probing and interpretive."
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