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her staunch character and fighting spirit to all, that ís, but her now aged mother who rules Edie completely. Though Edie regrets her failed attempts at freedom in New York and bitterly resents having had to return home to take care of her mother, Edith regrets nothing. She refuses to take the blame for Edie's missed opportunities. A prisoner of Grey Gardens, Edie is losing the ability to distinguish the line between the past and the present as the ghosts of the house, embodied by the cats themselves, sum up both its decrepitude and its appeal as a refuge. A welcome intrusion arrives with Jerry, the local dropout who is fitfully helping the two women bring the house up to standard with repairs. But mostly. he just likes being the centre of contention as Edith and Edie vie for his attentions. Playing an old World War Il recording, Edie tries to impress Jerry with her dance routine but finds Jerry's focus hijacked by her bedridden mother who boils him some corn on her bedside hot plate. Envious and frustrated. Edie retreats to the attic and her collection of memorabilia dreaming of escape. Edith waxes nostalgic to Jerry, singing along to an old record she cut with Gould back before he committed suicide. But when Edie tries to sing along, Edith belittles her. Tempers flare as each blames the other for life's disappointments. Edith orders Edie from the room, taking small solace in Norman Vincent Peale's radio broadcast while, unknown to her, Edie packs her suitcase and heads out the front door intending to leave Grey Gardens once and for all. But somehow Edie cannot get beyond the latch of the garden's front gate. The gardener, Brooks Jr., notes a chill in the air and offers assistance which Edie declines. Pulling her shabby fur coat around her, Edie realises that her season in the sun is past. Frightened at being left alone, Edith calls plaintively out of the window to Edie. She is too frail to open a soup can. Edie ponders her decision and, at long last, relents, returning inside to open the can and heat the soup as the two Edies reconcile themselves to the unspoken truth - that the only genuine loves of their lives are each other. CAST Edith Bouvier Beale "Little" Edie Beale George Gould Strong Brooks, Sr. Jacqueline Bouvier Lee Bouvier Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. J.V. "Major" Bouvier Brooks, Jr. Jerry Norman Vincent Peale ORCHESTRATION Keyboards; Violin; 'Cello, Reeds I, II ; Trumpet; Flugelhorn; Cor Anglais; Bass; Drums; Percussion, Piano MUSICAL NUMBERS 1. Toyland - Radio Newscaster, Edith, Edie & Gould 2. The Five-Fifteen Brooks - Edith. Jackie. Lee & Gould 3. Body Beautiful Beale - Edie, Gould, Edith, Jackie, Lee, Brooks & Joe 4. Mother Darling - Edie, Edith & Gould 5. Better Fall Out of Love - Joe & Edie 6. Being Bouvier - Major Bouvier, Brooks, Jackie, Lee & Edie 7. Hominy Grits - Gould, Edith, Major Bouvier, Brooks. Jackie & Lee 8. Peas in a Pod - Edie. Edith & Gould 9. Drift Away - Gould & Edith 10. The Five-Fifteen (reprise) 11. Miss Porter's Anthem - Edith. Edie, Jackie & Lee 12. Tomorrow's Woman - Edie, Jackie & Lee 13. Daddy's Girl - Edie & Joe 14. Will You? - Edith 15. The Reviolutionary Costume For Today - Edie

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