When seeing a play that’s ostensibly about two crazy cat ladies, you expect that you’re going to be a little disturbed. But the first jarring image of Studio Theater’s production of Grey Gardens comes unexpectedly; in the form of, “Jesus Christ, that little girl playing her looks exactly like Jackie O.”

The uncanny looks and precocious talents of young Simone Grossman aside, it is the ties of those aforementioned old ladies to the American Royalty that was the Bouviers and the Kennedys that serve as the hook for Grey Gardens. The musical was inspired by the 70s documentary of the same name, and it focuses on Edith and Little Edie, aunt and cousin to the future first lady, who spend the first act of the play in Gatsby-style high society, and the second in reclusive squalor.