Staunch! See the First Pics of Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell in the U.K. Premiere of Grey Gardens | 半岛体育

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Photos Staunch! See the First Pics of Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell in the U.K. Premiere of Grey Gardens The European premi猫re of the Broadway musical Grey Gardens officially opens its six-week season in The Large at Southwark Playhouse Jan. 7 following previews that began Jan. 2. Here's a first look!

Based on the iconic 1975 documentary, the 2006 musical tells the real-life rise and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis鈥� aunt and cousin, Edith and Edie Bouvier Beale.

Staunch! See the First Pics of Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell in the U.K. Premiere of Grey Gardens

The cast is headed by Olivier Award-winning West End stars and with Billy Boyle, Aaron Sidwell, Jeremy Legat, Ako Mitchell and Rachel Anne Rayham as well as child actors Alana Hinge, Grace Jenkins, Rebecca Nardin and Eleanor Waldron.

Thom Southerland directs the production, which has musical supervision by Simon Lee, musical direction by Michael Bradley, choreography by Lee Proud, designs by Tom Rogers, lighting design by Howard Hudson, sound design by Andrew Johnson, costume design by Jonathan Lipman and casting by producer Danielle Tarento.

Grey Gardens has a book by , music by and lyrics by .

"Starting in 1941 at an engagement party at Grey Gardens, the Bouvier鈥檚 mansion in East Hampton, Long Island," the musical, according to press notes, "tracks the progression of the two women鈥檚 lives from American aristocrats to reclusive social outcasts living in such squalid conditions, in a home overrun by cats, that the Health Department deemed the mansion 'unfit for human habitation.'"

Performances continue through Feb. 6.

For tickets call 020 7407 0234 or visit .

 
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