The Revolutionary Costume for Today 

People knew they were witnessing a historical performance. Simple as that. Historical.

Saw her 3 times in Grey Gardens..PURE MAGIC!!! Thank you GOD for the privilege!

That number deserves a standing ovation every night!!!!!

Such a staggeringly good performance. Just...unbelievably good work. This song in particular can run through my head over and over.

Camp is inherently an interactive art. Audience participation comes with the territory.

The reason the audience is going crazy, is because this is the closing show of the off-broadway run, before it transferred to broadway.

man, this was a *good* audience!! they laughed at everything! I love Christine Ebersole. Bitch get's a standing ovation just for walking out on stage. I just saw her in Blithe Spirit. She was phenomenal.

This is brilliant. I want a movie of the musical starring Christine Ebersole and Sarah Gettelfinger.

Catherine O'Hara almost did this on Broadway as a replacement for Ebersole. Ah, well. . .

Christine Ebersole is a goddess!!!

She's amazing!!! Best impression ever! 😍

I saw the show various times pre-Tonys. The audience was blown away every time upon seeing Christine as Little Edie for the first time. Thanks so much for posting these amazing vids.

Didn't she get a standing ovation at the top of Act II every night? The audience did this on both of the bootleg's I've seen. Makes me regret not seeing it live.

I'm not surprised by the ovation. Her performance had the off Broadway production sold out, which just proved that this needed to be moved to Broadway. I am only sad i got to see it just once in person. :( I hope to god she brings it to London. I would plan a whole trip around seeing it.

In a world saturated with so many different graphical mediums... Theater remains the pinicle and the standard that all others will forever be held to. ;) Thanks for the upload, I was looking for something else, but hey, this is cool.

thanks for this Man I wish this would come to London - preferably with Ebersole but it doesnt look likley now : ( It was a great show - i dont undersdtand why it didnt run for years on Broadway and then in the UK

tadzio999, I would LOVE that kind of audience if I was performing. They are brilliant!

Christine Ebershole is a vocal chameleon. To go from a slightly off key performance like this to “Will You?” takes guts…

agreed! And I hope you don't think the actress Christine Ebersole) is disrespectful! She did a fabulous job on this piece of art and was faithful to who Edie Beale was, in my opinion.

You left out her line she says after the applause.

are you sure? this kinda seems like it has to have been the first performance after the tonys...or the last show or something. in any case, it's incredible. ebersole was beyond brilliant...the best performance in a musical since, and possibly including, jennifer holiday in dreamgirls.

I don't know, but this was definitely party of the original run, before the show changed theaters.

@tadzio999 that's what a New York audience is like. I'm sure she doesn't a problem with the clapping. Her performance was magnificent and that's exactly why the audience was reacting. It would've been worse if her performance was so terrible that she didn't get any laughs...

Love it.

Is this the performance right after the Tonys?

what is?

Big Edie's and Little Edie's story is TRAGIC. In no way is making a "funny" musical paying tribute to a story of mental illness and shattered dreams!

Although I think she is a wonderful, wonderful actor and would have killed to see this production, I couldn't sit through a performance with such an irritating audience. God, stop congratulating yourself with copious amounts of laughter for recognising parallels between the lyrics and your modern lives.