By John Staton,
John.Staton@StarNewsOnline.com
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Published: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 10:22 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 10:22 a.m.
There aren’t many stories more tragic than the one told in “Grey Gardens.”
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For all of the documentary film-turned-musical’s humor, wackiness and jaw-dropping, I-can’t-believe-people-lived-like-this moments, it is at its core a tale of broken dreams.
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“I was the girl who [...]

 
 A Shade of Grey:
‘Grey Gardens’ satisfies in a melancholy performance
By: Lisa Huynh – September 8th, 2009

 
By: Lisa Huynh – September 8th, 2009
The moving performance of the cast, matched with the heavy, doleful music in Opera House Theatre Company’s “Grey Gardens” tugs audience’s heartstrings until they, too, turn into a shade of grey. It’s a story [...]

By John Staton,
John.Staton@StarNewsOnline.com
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‘Grey Gardens’
For anyone who’s seen “Grey Gardens,” the devastating 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles about a mother and daughter, fallen socialites both, living in squalor in a decrepit Hamptons mansion, the prospect of a musical based on this unforgettable film had to be a little jarring.
But in 2006 the unlikely occurred, [...]

Aristocratic Crazy:
Opera House presents ‘Grey Gardens’
By: MJ Pendleton – September 2nd, 2009
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The musical “Grey Gardens” is based on a 1975 documentary film by Albert and David Maysles. It depicts the lives of a mother and daughter, Big Edie and Little Edie, who live in an East-Hampton mansion, which, in Act II, is scandalously unsanitary, with [...]