Blackfriars Theatre, a not-for-profit, professional theatre on Rochester NY's East Main Street "Theatre Row," is proud to announce the opening of "Grey Gardens," a musical with music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie, and book by Doug Wright.
Grey Gardens recounts the hilarious and heartbreaking story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - once bright names on the social register who became East Hampton's most notorious recluses. Living in a 28 – room dilapidated mansion, the story is told in two era's, from the splendor of its prime in 1941, to 1973, when it was reduced to squalor.Grey Gardens stars Greg Byrne J.V. ("Major Bouvier/Norman Vincent Peale), Vicki Casarett (Big Edie), Alva Clarcq (Lee Bouvier), Brian Doran (George Gould Strong), Kristin Mellema (Young Edie – Act 1), Sarah Peters (Young Edie – Act 2), Jake Purcell (Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr./Jerry), Adriana Scalice (Jacqueline "Jackie" Bouvier).Videos