The Queen of Versailles

Songlist

Because I Can
Because We Can
Caviar Dreams
Mrs. Florida
Each and Every Day
The Ballad of the Timeshare King
Trust Me
The Golden Hour
Pretty Wins
I Could Get Used to This / More and More
Crash (2008)
This Is Not the Way
The Royal We
Show ’Em You’re the Queen
Pavane for a Dead Lizard
Watch
The Book of Random
Little Houses
Higher Than Ever
Grow the Light
Crash (1793)
This Time Next Year

Synopsis

Based on the acclaimed documentary of the same name, The Queen of Versailles is a funny, satirical and ultimately tragic musical fable that uses the story of billionairess Jackie Siegel and her obsessive quest to build the biggest private home in America to examine what has become of the American Dream. Jackie does what she has been taught to do by the culture she grew up in: always want bigger and never stop reaching. Yet the palace she builds — vast, empy and perpetually incomplete — comes at a devastating personal cost. Set against scenes of the Imperial French Court in the original Versailles, The Queen of Versailles asks: “Is more always better?” and “How do we know when we have enough?”

Recordings

The Queen of Versailles Original Cast Recording