2007 Souvenir Program ; Christine Ebersole, Sarah Hyland ; Grey Gardens

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2007 Souvenir Program ; Christine Ebersole, John McMartin, Mary Louise Wilson, Matt Cavenaugh, Sarah Hyland, Erin Davie, Michael Potts et al in Grey Gardens, a musical (book by Doug Wright ; music by Scott Frankel ; lyrics by Michael Korie ; based on the 1975 documentary film) accompanied by a 4 page cast & credits insert (includes head shots & bios as in a playbill)
; Program is in Very Good condition.
1 souvenir program, 30 pages & 1 cast insert, 4 pages : illustrations ; 9
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3 inches ; [
New York, N.Y]. :
Dewynters, 2007. ; Includes the following essays: "Notes from the Composer" by Scott Frankel ; "How Could This Have Happened: A Brief History of the Edies"
Cast: Christine Ebersole, Mary Louise Wilson, Matt Cavenaugh, Erin Davie, Kelsey Fowler, Sarah Hyland, Michael Potts, Bob Stillman, and John McMartin. Standbys: Maureen Moore, Dale Soules, Donald Grody, Abigail Frenczy, Michael W. Powell, Megan Lewis, Asa Somers.
Musical based on the lives of Edith Bouvier Beale (1896-1977) and her daughter "Little Edie" Beale (1917-2002), cousins of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
East of Doheny, Staunch Entertainment, Randall L. Wreghitt / Mort Swinsky, Michael Alden, Edwin W. Schloss, in association with Playwrights Horizons, present ; book by Doug Wright ; music by Scott Frankel ; lyrics by Michael Korie ; based on the film "Grey Gardens" by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, & Susan Froemke ; musical staging by Jeff Calhoun ; directed by Michael Greif ; Scenic design, Allen Moyer ; costume design, William Ivey Long ; lighting design, Peter Kaczorowski ; sound design, Brian Ronan ; projection design, Wendall K. Harrington ; orchestrations, Bruce Coughlin ; music director, Lawrence Yurman ; production stage manager, Judith Schoenfeld ...developed with the assistance of the Sundance Institute
Scott Frankel bio:
"Scott Frankel’s work as a composer was most recently represented on Broadway with War Paint, starring Patti LuPone & Christine Ebersole. The show played the Nederlander Theatre following a record-breaking engagement at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Other credits include: Grey Gardens (Tony nomination), The Flamingo Kid (Hartford Stage), Far From Heaven (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Happiness (Lincoln Center Theater), Doll (Ravinia Festival) and Meet Mister Future (Winner, Global Search for New Musicals). The Songs of Scott Frankel & Michael Korie were presented as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. Frankel is the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation New Horizons Richard Rodgers Award and the Frederick Loewe Award. He is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and a graduate of Yale University, where he teaches musical theatre composition."
Christine Ebersole bio:
"Actress Christine Ebersole has divided her career between stage and screen, joining the cast of Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s and appearing as the diva Katerina Cavalieri in 1984 film Amadeus. But it has been her work on Broadway that has brought Ebersole her greatest acclaim. She has won two Tonys, her first in 2001 as Dorothy Brock in the revival of the musical 42nd Street. Ebersole earned her second Tony for Best Actress in a Musical in 2007 for the dual role of ”Little” Edie Beale / Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens. Christine Ebersole first appeared on Broadway as a replacement in the play Angel Street in 1976 and returned two years later, again as a replacement, in the original musical, On the Twentieth Century. She subsequently starred in revivals of the musical Oklahoma! and Camelot as well as in various stage plays, including the 2000 revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man."
Mary Louise Wilson bio:
"Since her 1963 Broadway debut as Sue Ann in the short-lived musical, Hot Spot, Mary Louise Wilson has been active on and off Broadway, appearing in musicals as well as stage plays, from Noël Coward to William Shakespeare to The Beard of Avon. In 1998, she won a Tony nomination for her role as Fraulein Schneider in the revival of Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret and earned a Tony in 2007 for her performance in Grey Gardens, portraying the character Edith Bouvier Beale. Among her many musical appearances, Wilson played Comrade Ada in Kander and Ebb’s 1965 musical, Flora, The Red Menace, and portrayed Tessie Tura in the 1974 revival of Gypsy. A replacement for Marge MacDougall in the original production of Promises, Promises, Mary Louise Wilson won the 1995 Obie and a Drama Desk Award in Full-Gallop, a one-woman stage play she co-wrote with Mark Hampton in which she played Diana Vreeland. It went on to London and has since been produced in countries all over the world. Her films include Stepmom, Huck Finn, Green Card, She-Devil, Pet Semetary, Zelig, The Money Pit, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, King of the Gypsies, and Klute. Among her recent television appearances have been Frasier, Cosby, and The Sopranos."
John McMartin bio:
"John McMartin ... is an American actor of Broadway, off-Broadway, regional theatre, film, and television. He has been nominated for five Tony Awards (Sweet Charity 1966, Don Juan 1973, Show Boat 1995, High Society 1998, Into the Woods 2002), four of them for his work in musicals, and won two Drama Desk Awards, both in 1973 (The Great God Brown, Don Juan). He was also nominated for two more Drama Desk Awards (High Society 1998, Grey Gardens 2006). He has eight made-for-television movies and fourteen feature films to his credit (A Thousand Clowns 1965, All the President’s Men 1976, Blow Out 1981, Native Son 1986, Kinsey 2004), and has appeared as a guest star on numerous television series (Marcus Welby, M.D., The Partridge Family, The Rockford Files, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Law & Order, Frasier, and many others). Born in Indiana but raised in Minnesota, John McMartin went to college in Illinois and New York. He made his off-Broadway debut in 1959 as Corporal Billy Jester in Little Mary Sunshine, for which he won a Theatre World Award. He appeared on Broadway soon thereafter in The Conquering Hero and Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (both 1961). He spent two years in the television daytime soaps (As the World Turns) and guested intermittently on other shows. In 1965 he had a starring role in Pleasures and Palaces, a musical bound for Broadway, but the show closed after its initial Detroit run. The same year he made his film debut in A Thousand Clowns. In 1966 McMartin created the part of Oscar in Sweet Charity on Broadway opposite Gwen Verdon, which he would repeat on film (1969) opposite Shirley MacLaine. In the early 1970s McMartin was a leading member of the New Phoenix Repertory Company, playing in The Great God Brown (O’Neill), Don Juan (Molière), The Visit (Durrenmatt), Chemin de Fer (Feydeau), The Rules of the Game (Pirandello), and Love for Love (Congreve). He has been a notable interpreter of Stephen Sondheim, singing “The Road You Didn’t Take” and “Live, Laugh, Love” in the Tony Award-winning Follies (1973), and appearing in regional productions of A Little Night Music and the 2002 Broadway revival of Into the Woods, for which he gained a Tony nomination. His other Broadway roles have included the Narrator in Happy New Year (1980), Ben in A Little Family Business (1983), and Donner in Artist Descending a Staircase (1989). In 2006 McMartin created the roles of J.V. “Major” Bouvier and Norman Vincent Peale in Grey Gardens, winner of the 2007 Best Musical Tony Award. He also played Anton Schill – the role he had played in the 1973 New Phoenix revival – in the musical version of The Visit by Kander and Ebb in Chicago in 2001."