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Operated by Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. bay street theater2015.indd 1 4/6/15 9:24 AM A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC & EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS family can take, and what can happen when a family’s love is not nurturing, but narcissistic and needy. To use a contemporary pop psych term, it’s a show about codependence. But it’s also about love, the real love between a mother and a daughter, and how complex and unexpected that love can be. On a more macro level, this musical raises an issue we’re not always comfortable considering in America: that of class. It has been noted that now, more than at any time Barry Gordin since the Guilded Age, we live in a time of Scott Schwartz and Tracy Mitchell vast economic inequality and in a country Forty years ago, Grey Gardens became where it seems harder and harder to realize infamous. With the release of the great the American Dream and to have social documentary by David and Albert Maysles in mobility to rise out of the class into which 1975, the strange tale of the Beales of East you are born. Grey Gardens casts the social Hampton entered the public consciousness stratification of America into sharp relief and of America. At first, their story was seen as focuses on it in a way few musicals do. To see a delicious oddity, a kind of filmic sideshow two privileged relatives of a beloved first lady attraction; but soon the documentary became fall from grace, to see their upper class world a cult classic. And then, somewhere in the disintegrate into ruin, and to get a glimpse of journey to today, it entered the mainstream. why, is as fascinating today as it was forty These complicated, sad, but resilient women years ago. Perhaps it is even more so now and their garbage strewn, crumbling house because of the seeming imperviousness and became part of America’s story. But this tale invulnerability of today’s elite. began here, in the Hamptons, and is woven into our social fabric and the collective All of us at Bay Street feel it is a unique unconscious of our community. Disturbing privilege and joy to have the opportunity to and mad as it may be, this is our story, an produce this bold musical in the community in East End phenomenon. which it is set and so close to the house that gave it its name. We are thrilled to welcome Tracing the journey of “Big” and “Little” Edie to our stage a cast of sensational and Beale from glamorous socialites in the 1940’s dedicated actors, and to welcome, for the first to recluses in the 1970’s, Doug Wright, Scott time, director Michael Wilson and his talented Frankel and Michael Korie, the authors of this artistic team. And we welcome and thank bold musical delve deep into these women, you, our patrons and supporters, for joining their family and their relationships. They us for this daring musical that springs from encourage us to ponder the questions and and speaks to the heart of our community. issues these women raise -- ones that range We hope you’ll return often throughout our from micro to macro, from deeply personal to exciting fall season ahead filled with music, societal. documentary film festivals, and our Literature Live! production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice At its heart, Grey Gardens is a musical about and Men. family, about mothers and daughters, about the things we need from those we love, and the extreme measures we will take and the cruelties we will inflict on our loved ones and Scott Schwartz Tracy Mitchell ourselves to get it. 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