Full Cast Announced for Grey Gardens at Playwrights Horizons

Matt Cavenaugh, Sara Gettelfinger, Sarah Hyland, John McMartin, Michael Potts, Bob Stillman and Audrey Twitchell will join previously announced stars Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson in the upcoming musical version of Grey Gardens. The show is scheduled to begin performances at Playwrights Horizons on February 10.

Cavenaugh, who recently had a recurring role on One Life to Live, is best known to theater fans for starring in the musical Urban Cowboy. Gettelfinger is currently appearing on Broadway in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, from which she is taking a leave to appear in this tuner. Hyland played the title role in the Paper Mill production of Annie. McMartin has received Tony nominations for his work in Sweet Charity, Don Juan, Show Boat, High Society and Into the Woods. Potts appeared on the Great White Way last season in Lennon. Stillman received a Tony nomination for his performance in Dirty Blonde. Twitchell is making her stage debut with Grey Gardens.

Based on the cult 1975 documentary of the same name, the musical Grey Gardens will feature a book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel and lyrics by Michael Korie. The plot concerns the deliciously eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who were once among the brightest names in the pre-Camelot social register, and are now East Hampton's most notorious recluses, living in a dilapidated 28-room mansion. Facing an uncertain future, Edith Bouvier Beale and her adult daughter, "Little" Edie, are forced to revisit their storied past and come to terms with it--for better, and for worse.

Grey Gardens, directed by Michael Greif, is scheduled to officially open on March 7.