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2009年に大竹しのぶ、草笛光子で上演された「グレイ・ガーデンズ」のブロードウェイ版ＣＤです。なんといっても、第1幕で母、第2幕で娘役を演じたクリスティン・エバーソウルの演技と歌がすばらしいです。常に自分が主役でないと気が済まず、ほんとうは孤独な母イディスと、結婚も自己実現もできず、母に縛られたような家で、でも自分らしいファッションで暮らす娘イディ。楽しい歌、切ない歌、美しい歌がいっぱいです。
1幕目のWill you?と、2幕目の Around the World、それからAnother Winter in a Summer Town の３曲の美しさは比類ありません。ミュージカル好きにはぜひお勧め。
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M. D. A. Duncan
Five Stars
2016年2月8日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Byron Kolln
the best new musical of the year
2006年11月10日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Byron Kolln
2006年11月10日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
The story of Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale, and her daughter "Little Edie" is by now very well-known, thanks to the documentary. They became unfortunate figures of ridicule for some, but most were captivated by their bittersweet tale. The theme of bittersweet, and lives half-lived, permeates through the musical GREY GARDENS. Quite simply, it's the best new musical I've come across in a long, long time.
The show opens in 1941, with Big Edie (played by Christine Ebersole) hosting a party at her elegant East Hampton estate Grey Gardens, where her daughter Little Edie (Sara Gettelfinger) hopes to announce her impending engagement to Joe Kennedy Jr., (Matt Cavenaugh). When her dreams are dashed, Little Edie sadly - and somewhat unknowingly - resigns herself to a life of spinsterhood at Grey Gardens... Their demented relationship is sealed by Big Edie's "Will You?".
In Act Two, the elegant mansion is transformed into a delapidated wreck circa 1973. Big Edie (now played by Mary Louise Wilson) is a bedridden, somewhat senile recluse, cared for by Little Edie (now played by Christine Ebersole) who has grown embittered by resentment and regret.
The overreaching theme of the piece is captured in "Around the World", in which Little Edie imagines finally walking away from her mother's shadow. Ebersole's 11 o'clock number "Another Winter in a Summer Town" is also heartbreaking. There are also funnier, lighter pieces like "The Revolutionary Costume for Today" and "Jerry Likes My Corn" for the two actresses to sink their teeth into.
It's about time that Christine Ebersole is finally receiving her due, following years of solid work on Broadway (most recently a Tony-winning performance as Dorothy Brock in the revival of "42nd Street"), but I doubt that Ebersole has ever had a musical that best captures all her colours than GREY GARDENS. It is indeed the role and the musical that Ebersole has been waiting for all her life. Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson bookend each other beautifully in their dual-performance as Big Edie.
Sara Gettelfinger (who rose to fame replacing no-show Jenna Elfman in "Nine" and later won the coveted role of Jolene in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels") plays Little Edie in Act One, and gives a delightful performance as the "Body Beautiful Beale" with tons of potential, later squandered in the name of duty. Matt Cavenaugh quietly plays down the role of Joe Jr., with John McMartin (as Edith's father "Major" Bouvier) also very fine.
This recording features the cast and music as heard during the show's Off-Broadway run at Playwrights Horizons. I heartily and wholly recommend GREY GARDENS, a musical that proudly wears it's wounded heart on it's sleeve.
[PS Classics/Image Entertainment 642]
POSTSCRIPT (11th June 2007): The PS Classics label has just released a new edition of the GREY GARDENS cast album to reflect the changes in cast and score since the musical transferred to Broadway. Erin Davie replaces Sara Gettelfinger as "Little Edie" in Act One; and Kelsey Fowler replaces Audrey Twitchell in the role of "Lee Bouvier".
New numbers added to the score are "The Girl Who Has Everything," "Goin' Places," "Marry Well", a new ending to replace "Peas in a Pod"; plus the unrecorded "Telegram". Most of the recorded performances from the original album session have been used here again, except for the songs that required Davie and Fowler, and those have been completely re-recorded.
The original Off-Broadway cast recording (which was the subject of my initial review above) has now been discontinued and replaced by this current recording. No doubt this will be a confusing subject for a few people, but I'm glad that such a rewarding musical like GREY GARDENS has already garnered two separate recordings.
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mt b r thompson
Five Stars
2016年4月11日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
wildroses
Evocative and Haunting....
2007年12月11日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Bradley Friedman
AN EXCITING NEW MUSICAL!
2006年10月8日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
