The musical’s playwright talks about the Beales’s “beautiful damage” and how the Grey Gardens estate’s haunted house feel makes the story universally appealing. (1:00)

The filmmakers and composer weren't sure how they'd turn the Grey Gardens documentary into a musical, but they knew it could be done. (1:11)

Documentarian Albert Maysles believes the only way Big Edie and Little Edie could truly be themselves was to become recluses. (:48)

Look behind the scenes at the making of a grand opera about the birth of the atomic bomb. (2:34)

Testing of the first-ever nuclear explosion, as planned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, is translated into song. (1:08)

Evoking the excitement of impending disaster, Director Peter Sellars coaxes the chorus to sing as if their lives depended on it. (:44)

An atomic bomb set piece moves through the streets of San Francisco, arriving at the Opera House. (1:27)

A tale about literary figure Harold Louis "Doc" Humes, crammed full of ideas about politics, literature, protest, paranoia, and madness. (3:07)

Norman Mailer talks about how the counterculture of the '50s was anti-Cold War, anti-complacency and aimed at "disturbing society." (2:28)