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Northlight Theatre: Grey Gardens

Start Date & Time: November 12, 2008 at 12:00 AM
End Date & Time: December 21, 2008 at 12:00 AM

Event Details:

The Midwest Premiere of the Tony Award-winning musical
Grey Gardens

Book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie

Directed by BJ Jones

Music Direction by Doug Peck
November 12 – December 21, 2008

This brand new musical comes to Chicago after its 2007 Tony Award-winning Broadway run, giving Northlight audiences the chance to rub elbows with Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter "Little Edie," Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' most scandalous relatives! Once the highest of high society, the two have become East Hampton's most notorious recluses, living in a dilapidated 28-room mansion with 51 cats for company. Set in two eras—1941 when the celebrated estate was the picture of wealth and sophistication, and 1973 after it had been reduced to squalor—Grey Gardens is a hilarious and heartbreaking look at two indomitable women.