Grey Gardens Set for Final Extension and for Cast Recording

Grey Gardens will blossom with a third and final extension at Playwrights Horizons, running through April 30th. In addition, a cast recording will be released by PS Classics.

The show about eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy opened on March 7th, after beginning previews at the Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater on February 10th. Grey Gardens has extended twice before--first through April 9th and then through April 23rd. The show was originally to have closed on March 26th.

A release date has not yet been announced for the PS Classics recording, but the cast will go into the recording studio on April 27th.

With a book by Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife), composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie, the show stars Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole (Steel Magnolias, 42nd Street) and Mary Louise Wilson (The Women, Cabaret), as well as Sara Gettelfinger (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nine), Matt Cavenaugh (Urban Cowboy), Sarah Hyland (Paper Mill Playhouse's Annie), six-time Tony Award-nominee John McMartin (Sweet Charity, Follies), Michael Potts (Lennon), two-time Tony Award-nominee Bob Stillman (Grand Hotel) and Audrey Twitchell. Tony Award-nominee Michael Greif (Rent) directs.

"Grey Gardens concerns the deliciously eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who were once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register, and are now East Hampton's most notorious recluses, living in a dilapidated 28-room mansion. 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," according to Playwrights Horizons notes.

In the musical, Ebersole and Wilson respectively play Edith in 1941 and 1973, while Gettelfinger and Ebersole play Edie in those same years.

Grey Gardens' creative team includes Allen Moyer (sets), William Ivey Long (costumes), Peter Kaczorowski (lighting), Brian Ronan (sound), Wendall K. Harrington (projections), Bruce Coughlin (orchestrations) and Lawrence Yurman (musical direction).

For more information on Grey Gardens, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or visit www.playwrightshorizons.org. For more on PS Classics, visit www.psclassics.com.