Tony Award Winning Actress to Star in Bay Street Theater Production

Bay Street Theater recently announced that Tony Award winner Betty Buckley and Drama Desk Award winner Rachel York will star as Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens, the musical.

The show will take place at the theater located at 1 Bay Street in Sag Harbor from August 4 to August 30 as part of a 2015 Mainstage Season Subscription.

Single tickets will go on sale beginning June 1.

“I am very excited to have a dream cast and creative team joining us for Grey Gardens at Bay Street this summer,” Scott Schwartz, Artistic Director for Bay Street Theater said. “The brilliant Betty Buckley and Rachel York will bring humanity, depth, and humor to Big and Little Edie Beale, women who are part of the shared heart and history of the Hamptons. They are joined by a cast of dazzling actors and award-winning designers, and we welcome them all. I am confident that under Michael Wilson’s inspired direction, this production will be a perfect finale for our 2015 season and an event not to be missed.”

A “Pay What You Can” performance will be on August 4 at 7 p.m.

“PWYC” tickets are limited and will be available at the Box Office beginning at 2 p.m. on August 4.

Buckley, who has been called “The Voice of Broadway,” was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame for 2012.

She won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats and received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in Triumph of Love.

She also received Olivier Award nomination for her critically acclaimed interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard.

Her other Broadway credits include: 1776, Pippin, Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Carrie.

Her films include her debut in Brian de Palma’s screen version of Stephen King’s Carrie, Bruce Beresford’s Tender Mercies, Roman Polanski’sFrantic, Woody Allen’s Another Woman, Lawrence Kasden’s Wyatt Earp and M. Night Shymalan’s The Happening while on television, Buckley appeared in The Pacific for HBO and twice on the Kennedy Center Honors.

She also starred for three seasons in the HBO series Oz and as Abby Bradford in the hit series Eight is Enough.

She has appeared as a guest star in numerous television series, miniseries and films for television including Evergreen, Roses for the Rich the CBS series Without a Trace, Law & Order: SVU for NBC, ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars and HBO’s Getting On.

York is best known for her critically acclaimed Broadway performances in City of Angels, Les Misérables, Victor/Victoria (Drama Desk Award), with Dame Julie Andrews, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sly Fox with Richard Dreyfuss, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

She also starred in television with her courageous portrayal of Lucille Ball in the CBS movie, Lucy.

Most recently, York starred as Reno Sweeny in the national tour of the Tony-Award winning production of Anything Goes (Helen Hayes Award). S

She created the role of Cruella de Vil in the national tour of The 101 Dalmatians Musical; starred as Guenevere in the national tour of Camelot opposite Michael York; and portrayed Lilli Vanessi/Kate in Kiss Me, Kate (US Tour and London’s West End).

In concert, York has performed with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall; the National Symphony and the Pittsburgh Pops under the direction of conductor Marvin Hamlisch; Broadway Showstoppers with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops; The Sound of Music at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the San Francisco Symphony; the Detroit Symphony; the Minnesota Orchestra; the Utah Symphony; the St. Louis Symphony; and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra among others.

She has also appeared on several popular TV series including Hannah Montana, Frasier, Reba, Numb3rs, Close to Home, Spin City, and Diagnosis Murder. She is the voice of Bitty in Higglytown Heroes and Circe on The Justice League.

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