{"id":8014,"date":"2016-06-21T22:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2016-06-21T22:07:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:07:31","slug":"stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/21\/stranger-than-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"STRANGER THAN FICTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Grey Gardens\u2019 at COF<\/em><\/h2>\n

BY YANNA LANTZ<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Actors
Actors Tess Worstel and Jonathan Alexander Young will both make their COF debuts in this production. Photo by Kirsten Shultz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Company of Fools (COF) will open its 21st season with the complex and haunting musical \u201cGrey Gardens,\u201d running June 28 through July 20 at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey. The first musical to be based on a documentary, \u201cGrey Gardens\u201d tells the story of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve wanted to do this play for years, and for various reasons it never came to fruition,\u201d said Core Company Artist and Director John Glenn. \u201cI love the story and am fascinated with the heart and complexity of this mother-daughter love\/hate journey; I\u2019m drawn to it like a car wreck.\u201d
\nWith Doug Wright\u2019s intelligent book, intricate music by Scott Frankel and witty lyrics by Michael Korie, the stranger-than-fiction story of the Bouviers is brought to life.
\n\u201cYou get to experience multiple genres in one musical: it\u2019s jazzy, wistful, mysterious, heartbreaking and joyous \u2013 everything you could possibly want to hear,\u201d explained cast member Tess Worstel, a Boise-based actor who is making her COF debut. \u201cThe arrangements are so complex because these women are so complex; it\u2019s a true mirror of the characters.\u201d
\nSet at the Bouvier mansion in the Georgic section of East Hampton, the musical centers around a mother and daughter on their hilarious and heartbreaking journey from upper-crust aristocrats to tarnished recluses.
\n\u201cPeople are drawn to this show because they had this image of who the Bouviers were, and they find out that there\u2019s a lot more to the story than meets the eye,\u201d said Jana Arnold, cast member. \u201cIt\u2019s a hugely codependent relationship that is masked at times because there is a lot of ego and past days of glory involved. But in the end, there is a lot of love there… as well as humor, wit, pathos, sadness, drama, heartache and tears.\u201d
\nUnder Glenn\u2019s direction and R.L. Rowsey\u2019s musical direction, the cast additionally features local actors Andrew Alburger, Ella Boice, Milana Harter and Aly Wepplo as well as guest actors Chris Carwithen, Leonardo Escobar and Jonathan Alexander Young.
\nThe creative team for \u201cGrey Gardens\u201d includes Dennis Rexroad (set design), Steven Koehler (light design), Darrin J. Pufall (costume design), Ann Price (dialect coach), Ted Macklin (sound design) and K.O. Ogilvie (stage manager).
\n\u201cOne of the biggest questions in this show, for me, is what is happiness and how do you choose to be happy,\u201d expounded Worstel. \u201cI think it is so important for everyone to think about that in their own lives in such a turbulent time in the world.\u201d
\nTickets for \u201cGrey Gardens\u201d are $35 for full price, $30 for seniors and Center members and $15 for students (18 and under). These ticket prices do not include the \u201cPay What You Feel\u201d preview (June 28), 10 for $10 and Educators Day (June 30). Tickets may be purchased online at sunvalleycenter.org, by phone at (208) 578-9122 or at the Liberty Theatre box office starting one hour prior to curtain. Company of Fools\u2019 box office is located at the Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main Street in Hailey, with hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Grey Gardens\u2019 at COF BY YANNA LANTZ Company of Fools (COF) will open its 21st season with the complex and haunting musical \u201cGrey Gardens,\u201d running June 28 through July 20 at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey. The first musical to be based on a documentary, \u201cGrey Gardens\u201d tells the story of Big Edie and Little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,68,72,4,48,53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-calendar-2","9":"category-community","10":"category-entertainment","11":"category-calendar","12":"category-calendar-feature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}