While I'm glad that Little Edie got her groove back - what about mother? - the idea of turning a human tragedy into a musical is just fucking sick. Is this the "best" our best and brightest Broadway lights can come up with?? I don't care how brilliant you are, you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

This was no tragedy! This is Human life. Everything is transitory. The Edie's embodied this realization with grace, (some) dignity and NO SELF PITY, catfood, skipant turbans and all!

Sow's ear??? Are ya nuts yourself? The Edie's were not crazy at all and certainly did not eat cat food. They ordered proper food from the grocery store every day!! They wree not ordinary, tha's for sure. But insane?? Please.

Now, about the review- pretty much spot on. Nicely done.

"...the idea of turning a human tragedy into a musical is just fucking sick..."

i guess that leaves out Les Miserables.

good review, cintra. restrained. loved it. would be nice if the production hangs on for awhile, tweaked and ready for b'way and the masses. someone, please - put it on video for the rest of us.

and i LOVE ebersole in everything she does.

...since first and foremost IT WAS A NOVEL. Only an idiot (and French one, who should've known better) of the late 20th century would have made a musical about death, suffering and doomed rebellion.

And if you write "What about 'La Boheme'?", I'm gonna puke. That's opera.

That reminds me, "Rent" really sucked, onstage and at the theater. I have no pity for crack addicts and sluts who don't want to work and then complain about having to pay their bills.

Still, nice to see Cintra write instead of bitch. Makes me want to see both the film and the play.

The old-fashioned "musical comedy" which has recently been resurrected in shows like The Producers and Spamalot is not the same thing. There have been many, many musicals made from tragic themes - Show Boat, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, Evita, Les Miserables, Phantom Of The Opera, Parade, The Civil War, The Capeman, South Pacific, The King And I, Follies... I could go on and on. Nothing sick about it.

time to check back in with your doctor. you seem a bit off. poor thing. can't even get his own posts straight to post a coherent reply. what is your problem, poor boy? you seem to have underlying issues that this review touched. maybe you should lie down for awhile. namecalling is the first sign and not remembering what you say is the second.

When I saw "Grey Gardens" I thought of a family in the backwoods of my own state who are amazingly similar.

The thought of turning that life into a musical just gives me the willies.

Only people who've never seen what the whole wealthy-eccentrics-turned-squalid-weirdos lifestyle is like would EVER think this documentary should be a musical.

Now you'll pardon me, I feel the need to go be as compulsively normal and middle class as possible.

""Rent" really sucked, onstage and at the theater. I have no pity for crack addicts and sluts who don't want to work and then complain about having to pay their bills."

I'm going to deconstruct the entire statement...onstage and at theater would most likely mean the same thing...the show rent dealt with heroin addicts, not crack addicts, and starred a slut who was willing to work to pay the bills.

But, the show itself was about so much more then lazy addicts and sluts complaining about having to pay bills. If you couldn't see past this, then there is no way you could "get" the show or appreciate anything about it. If this is all YOU see in the show, it says alot about who YOU are as a person.