River City Repertory Theatre presents the musical
GREY GARDENS

The exciting kickoff to RCRT's 11th season and the inaugural production in SRAC's Engine Room Theatre, GREY GARDENS is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, based on the 1975 documentary of the same title about the lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale ("Big Edie") and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale ("Little Edie") by Albert and David Maysles. The Beales were Jacqueline Kennedy's aunt and cousin, respectively. Set at Grey Gardens, the Bouviers' mansion in East Hampton, New York, the musical tracks the progression of the two women's lives from their original status as rich and socially polished aristocrats to their eventual largely isolated existence in a home overrun by cats and cited for repeated health code violations. However, its more central purpose is to untangle the complicated dynamics of their dysfunctional mother/daughter relationship.

The first act depicts the characters in their heyday and is a speculative take on what their lives might have been like when they were younger, when Little Edie was 24 and Big Edie 47. The second act is set 32 years later in 1973 at the decaying Grey Gardens estate and hews closely to the Maysles Brothers' documentary in its portrayal of them in their later years, when Little Edie is 56 and Big Edie is 79. While the first act is almost entirely fictional (the central event, the engagement between Little Edie and Joseph Kennedy, never happened), the second act takes much of its dialogue and action directly from the film. The same actress who plays Big Edie in the first act plays Little Edie in the second act.

PERFORMANCES
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at 7:30
Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 7:30
Friday, November 4, 2016 at 7:30
Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 2:00
Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 7:30
***Please Note that there is NO performance on Sunday, November 6.

Tickets may be reserved by calling the RCRT box office at 318-868-5888 or going to http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2707598

THE CAST
Edith Bouvier Beale/"Little Edie" Beale.....Heather Bryson
Edith Bouvier Beale.....Ginger Folmer
Edie Beale.....Hayley Cooper
Joe Kennedy, Jr./Jerry.....Ryan Williams
George Gould Strong.....Jonathan McVay
Major Bouvier/Norman Vincent Peale.....Bill Gallman
Brooks/Brooks, Jr......Devin Norwood
Jackie Bouvier.....Ashley Jackson
Lee Bouvier.....Tatum Young

Direction, Costume, and Set Design by Patric McWilliams
Musical Direction by Kermit Poling
Choreography by Katie DuPont
Stage Management by Jo Ann Horton
Rehearsal Accompaniment by Joy Ratcliff
Lighting Design by Courtney Gaston
Projection Design by Chris Lyon, Blayne Weaver, Melanie Parent