Ebersole, Wilson Featured on TCM Airing of 'Gardens' Docu
By: BWW News Desk Sep. 25, 2006
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Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson--who play the two eccentric Edie Bouvier's in Broadway's upcoming Grey Gardens--will appear on Turner Classic Movie's October 29th (8 PM) presentation of the 1975 documentary that inspired the musical.
TCM's Robert Osbourne will interview the two stars before and after the documentary is aired.
After having played hit run at Playwrights' Horizons, the musical version of Grey Gardens will begin previews at the Walter Kerr Theatre on October 3rd and open on November 2nd.
The famed documentary film about the Bouviers--Big Edie and Little Edie--was directed by Alfred and David Maysles (as well as Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer). In it, the two women recollect the past while spending the present in a squalid Long Island mansion overrun by cats.
In addition to Ebersole (42nd Street, Dinner at Eight) and Wilson (Cabaret, Full Gallop), Grey Gardens will star John McMartin, Bob Stillman, Matt Cavenaugh, Michael Potts, and Sarah Hyland (all from the Playwrights Horizons production), as well as Broadway newcomer Erin Davie as Young 'Little' Edie Beale, and Kelsey Fowler.
The show "brings to life both the delightfully eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register, these two women became East Hampton's most notorious recluses, living in a dilapidated 28-room mansion. Set in two eras – in 1941 when the estate was in its prime and in 1973 when it was reduced to squalor – the musical tells the alternately hilarious and heartbreaking story of two indomitable individuals, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter 'Little' Edie," according to production notes.
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