Aiming for the White House (after a stint in the Navy and the Senate), Joe can't stand for any potential scandal he calls off the engagement.įor act two, the audience moves next door to another stage, this time a closer resemblance to the Grey Gardens (circa 1975) we're more familiar with-rundown, dark, and musty, littered with trash, newspapers, clothes, broken furniture-a "28-room litter box," as a few resident mangy cat and raccoons, puppeteered by some of the cast from the first act, put it in song. In a scene leading up to the end of the first act, Kanter's Big Edie, fearful of the future and perhaps a bit jealous of her daughter, slyly and casually plants a seed in Joe's mind that Little Edie might not be as "pure" and virginal as he thought. It's an ongoing joke and a continuous point of contention that Big Edie, with her boisterous personality perhaps, always scared away Little Edie's suitors-embarrassing her or revealing too much about Little Edie. If you've seen the documentary (or the many spoofs and references to the odd pair in, say, a "Documentary Now!" or a "Gilmore Girls" episode), you know that Little Edie doesn't get married after all, and that Big Edie remains single after Phelan divorces her, that the two of them wind up alone together. With Little Edie gone, she'll be truly alone. The gears start to turn we see these notions of respectability and propriety (and shame, when a woman can't keep her husband) in white upper-class society wearing down on Big Edie.
Big Edie receives a disappointing telegram, delivered by their butler Brooks (Terrance Fleming), that Phelan won't make it after all, that he's off in Mexico with a woman named Linda, and he hints at divorce. Having been born with a leg up already, and with this looming marriage, Little Edie's on her way up the social ladder. Basically, Major says, don't be like Big Edie preserve the family name ("burnish the family crest"), and soar even higher socially: "Find a staunch young patrician/ Republican!/ With the blood and the brains to excel!" Major sings as the younger girls chime in about wearing chinchillas in Paris and living in villas in Milan. Kennedy, played on the night I saw the production by Kate Kilner-Pontone) and Lee (who later became a socialite, played on this night by Compton Little). Those expectations of responsibility and respectability of women and girls during this time period in America are echoed by Big Edie's father, the burly Major Bouvier (Barney Rinaldi) in a booming musical number called 'Marry Well.' Here he advises Little Edie and her cousins Jackie (the future first lady to John F. (Although in reality, Little Edie met Joe Kennedy once.) Eager to get out of Grey Gardens and into her own life, Little Edie also struggles with the notion that as the wife of a future politician, she'll be expected to maintain a sense of decorum (read: passivity or quietude) that she's not used to. We're dropped into the story right as the engagement between showy and exuberant 24-year-old Little Edie (Christine Demuth) and straight-laced, clean-cut, White House hopeful Joseph Kennedy, Jr. On the left is a piano that cabaret singer Big Edie (played in the first act by Zoe Kanter) leans onto occasionally while singing along with her accompanist Gould (Adam Cooley), a charmingly flamboyant and caring pal who fills a platonic void that Big Edie's emotionally distant (and frequently out of town and philandering) husband Phelan leaves. Kansas was its 2022 men's basketball champion: Abbr.Act one is set in a bright, pink parlor (designed by co-director Ryan Haase) inside the Grey Gardens mansion in 1941-faux pink flowers adorn the wall in a diamond pattern, a painted portrait of a younger Big Edie (with a cat on her lap) hangs above a marble mantle.Circle of Life singer _ John crossword clue.What icicles do when it's warm enough for them to melt crossword clue.
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