Grey Gardens (musical)

Grey Gardens
Cover of Broadway original cast recording of Grey Gardens
Music	Scott Frankel
Lyrics	Michael Korie
Book	Doug Wright
Basis	Grey Gardens by Albert and David Maysles Ellen Hovde Muffie Meyer
Productions	2006 Off-Broadway 2006 Broadway 2011 Melbourne 2013 Seattle 2016 London 2016 Toronto 2016 Los Angeles

Grey Gardens is a musical with book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, and lyrics by Michael Korie, produced in 2006 and 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.