Grey Gardens to Close on July 29

The Broadway musical Grey Gardens will close after the matinee on Sunday, July 29. As of that date, the show will have played 307 performances and 33 previews.

The show will be produced in London during the 2007-2008 season with Christine Ebersole repeating her Tony Award-winning performance as Big Edith Bouvier Beale (in Act One) and Little Edie Beale (in Act Two). Details on that production will be announced shortly.

Grey Gardens, based on the documentary film of the same name, tells the story of Big Edith and Little Edie Beale, a mother and daughter who ended up living as recluses in a run-down Long Island mansion. The show premiered in February 2006 at Playwrights Horizons and opened last November at the Walter Kerr.

Directed by Michael Greif, the musical has a book by Doug Wright and a score by Michael Korie and Scott Frankel. It features musical staging by Jeff Calhoun, sets by Allen Moyer, costumes by William Ivey Long, lighting by Peter Kaczorowski, sound by Brian Ronan, projections by Wendall K. Harrington, orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin, and music direction by Lawrence Yurman.

In addition to Ebersole, the cast features Mary Louise Wilson, who won the Tony Award for her performance as Big Edith (in Act Two), Erin Davie, Matt Cavenaugh, Kelsey Fowler, Sarah Hyland, Michael Potts, Bob Stillman, and John McMartin.

In his TheaterMania review, David Finkle wrote: “Other people bickering can often be simultaneously hilarious and devastating, which is why the sizzlingest pair on Broadway right now are Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson.”