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With Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton as National Ambassadors, Kids’ Night on Broadway is taking place all across the U.S. The League’s signature audience development program invites kids to see a Broadway show for free when accompanied by a full-paying adult. While ticket sales for KNOB in New York have officially ended, many participating shows have extended the offer.

For more information about Kids’ Night on Broadway in NYC, as well as a list of participating cities across the U.S., visit KidsNightOnBroadway.com.

Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson star in Grey Gardens, a new musical about Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, "Little" Edie Beale, the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The two women's reclusive life in a broken-down mansion in New York's East Hampton was first chronicled in the 1975 documentary film of the same title.

This new musical adds to the story by imagining the estate at the height of its grandeur in the 1940s, before its strange and sad decline into squalor. After premiering Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons earlier this year, Grey Gardens transferred to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre. Ben Pesner visited its two stars in Ms. Wilson's dressing room before a recent Friday evening performance.

Ben Pesner: This show is somewhat unusual in that many audience members have actually seen the film of the real women you are portraying. How does interpreting a real person on the stage differ from interpreting an imaginary one?

Christine Ebersole: It's a different experience, a different way in [to the character]. One is out of your imagination and the other is out of the visuals and the rhythms that you watch. When you watch the movie and you hear the music of the speaking, the rhythm and the body language, it informs your performance.

Mary Louise Wilson: This way is richer, I think. The text is taken from the film, so the lines that are given to us are loaded because we've seen the characters' expressions. (To Ms. Ebersole) Have you played real people before this?

Ebersole: I played Queen Elizabeth. I don't know if that counts.

Wilson: So did I! You couldn't study her on a DVD! (laughs) We've also both played Tessie Tura [in Gypsy ] and Kitty in The Royal Family.

Have you worked together before?

Wilson: No. If I had any idea! I just adore Christine. It's such a breeze.

Ebersole: We would have done it straight out of college! (laughs)

Wilson: We would have had a comedy act!

Ms. Wilson, you spend so much of Act I offstage. How do you pass the time?

Wilson: You wouldn't believe what goes on up here. We're writing novels. We're doing a photography exhibit. There's all kinds of things. Anything but sitting and reading, because then I'd just go into a slump. If nothing else I jump around. (laughs)

Ms. Ebersole, you change characters during intermission. What do you do to switch gears?

Ebersole: The clothes and the makeup help you get in there. You just put on your makeup and costume, and make sure you go to the bathroom.

This is a special kind of musical, one which is more about the characters and the story and less about spectacle.

Ebersole: Yes, I like being in this kind of show. To me it feels like a play with music.

Wilson: Oh, I'd go crazy in a big razzmatazz musical.

Ebersole: You'd get bored really quickly.

Wilson: I'm still trying to figure this woman [Edith] out.

Ebersole: What's so great about this show is the never-ending nuance in the characters, the music, the lyrics, the text, the story.

Wilson: And the emotional life.

December is typically a very busy month for touring Broadway, as many people find the holiday season the perfect time to treat themselves to a show. It can also be a difficult time for cast and crew members spending the holidays away from their homes and families. We checked in with some of our friends on the road to find out how they'd be celebrating their holidays this year. Click on the show titles for information and a touring schedule for each show.

Marissa O'Donnell (Annie): Since Annie is coming to the Theatre at Madison Square Garden I will be celebrating the holidays at home in New York! I have 32 performances, press appearances, my schoolwork, and I will be singing the national anthem at Giants Stadium on Christmas Eve. I'll meet friends for dinner between shows, do some Christmas shopping with my family on my days off, and I'm really looking forward to the Secret Santa gift exchange with the cast and crew!

The tour of Mamma Mia! opens at Chicago's Cadillac Palace theatre on Tuesday, December 12 and for many company members it will be nice to be home for the holidays. Cast members Sean Allan Krill (Sam Carmichael), Michael Gerhart (Ensemble) and Will Reynolds (Ensemble) all currently call Chicago home while Adam Michael Hart (Swing) and Lisa Nicole Wilkerson (Ali) will be visiting their alma matter, Northwestern University.

P.J. Benjamin (The Wizard): My wife, Louisa, will drive 500 miles to be with me for Christmas in Ontario. She will scout out the markets and make great meals for us. She will decorate my hotel room and hang a wreath on my dressing room door. She will cook a ham, greens and black-eyed peas on New Years Day, which is supposed to bring good luck for the entire year. After 36 years of traveling in show business, I realize that home is wherever she is.

Christopher Gurr (Sir Bedevere): With a matinee on Christmas Eve and an evening performance on the 26th in Detroit and family spread through Kentucky and Georgia, my plan is this: Christmas Eve spent with the "Spamily" (© Bradley Dean, 2006) at the Candlewood Suites in Troy, MI. Rise early on Christmas day to catch a flight to Atlanta. Arrive in time to help with the last bit of cooking and to sit down with one half of my Georgia family

For a list of shows currently on North American tour, click here.

Gideon Glick (Ernst): I just turned 18 a few months ago. I was working in a cookie store a couple of months before that, and now here I am. I can't think of a better way to spend what would have been my freshman year of college than with such exuberant, young people. I can only hope sophomore year will be just as exciting.

Jonathan B. Wright (Hanschen): I feel like I'm in kindergarten. Everything is so huge and beautiful and specific. I have no clue how it all works or how I fit into it all, but I'm having a spectacular time. I'm learning so many invaluable lessons of life and art, from the most crazy, beautiful people.

Lauren Pritchard (Ilse): Debuting on Broadway has been such a wonderful experience. I have realized even more how much I really love singing and acting. Since I was a little girl I had dreamed of being on Broadway, but because I've never had a traditional Broadway voice I never thought that I would be able to be a part of it. Spring Awakening has given me the opportunity to live out my dreams. I feel blessed every day to get to be where I am right now and I will never take it for granted.

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