Sheila, who once upon a time played Senna Pod in the classic comedy, Carry On Cleo, will play Edie Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens, opposite Jenna Russell. Russell starred alongside Joan Sims in the sitcom On The Up back in the early 1990s. The play sounds worth checking out and the reviews have been pretty favourable:
You can read what the Guardian had to say about it here
There is a review in the Telegraph here
And The Stage gives it the thumbs up here
If
you are interested in checking the play out during its short run,
here is more information from the Southwark Playhouse website:
Based
on the iconic film, Grey Gardens tells the spectacular real life rise
and fall of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s aunt and cousin, Edith and
Edie Bouvier Beale.
Starting
in 1941 at an engagement party at Grey Gardens, the Bouvier’s
mansion in East Hampton, Long Island, the musical tracks the
progression of the two women’s lives from American aristocrats to
reclusive social outcasts living in such squalid conditions, in a
home overrun by cats, that the Health Department deemed the mansion
‘unfit for human habitation’.
Winner
of 3 Tony awards and nominated for a further 7, along with 12 Drama
Desk awards on Broadway, Grey Gardens finally gets its European
première in London from the multi award winning team behind Grand
Hotel, Titanic, Parade and Mack & Mabel.
“the
best argument I can think of for the survival of the American
musical” Ben Brantley, New York Times.
Grey Gardens is on at the Southwark Playhouse until 6 February. You can find out more on the Southwark Playhouse Website
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