The Broadway cast and orchestra of Grey Gardens went into a New York studio on February 13 to record the show for release by PS Classics next month. Multiple Grammy winner Steven Epstein The Light in the Piazza is the producer of the new recording. Last August, PS Classics released the musical's world-premiere recording, featuring the original off-Broadway cast and produced by Tommy Krasker.
Following a sold-out world premiere last spring at Playwrights Horizons, Grey Gardens opened at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre on November 2, directed by Michael Greif. The new recording will preserve changes made for the Broadway production by author Doug Wright, composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie, mostly in the first act. New numbers "The Girl Who Has Everything," "Goin' Places," "Marry Well" and "The Telegram" will replace the previously recorded "Toyland," "Body Beautiful Beale," "Better Fall Out of Love, "Being Bouvier" and "Tomorrow's Woman."
Broadway's Erin Davie and Kelsey Fowler will sing the roles of Young Edie Beale and Lee Bouvier, respectively, on the new recording; Sara Gettelfinger and Audrey Twitchell sang the roles on the world-premiere CD. Appearing on both recordings are Christine Ebersole as Edith Act One and Little Edie Beale Act Two, Mary Louise Wilson as Big Edie Act Two, John McMartin as Major Bouvier and Norman Vincent Peale, Matt Cavenaugh as Joe Kennedy Jr. and Jerry, Sarah Hyland as Jacqueline Bouvier, Michael Potts as Brooks Sr. and Brooks Jr. and Bob Stillman as Gould.
