The Secret Garden: Musical Book and LyricsFor her first venture into music-theatre, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, in collaboration with composer Lucy Simon, achieved Broadway success with the moving book and lyrics she adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved 1911 novel, The Secret Garden. The story of 10-year-old orphan Mary Lennox and her search for friendship, love and an understanding of the past in her lonely uncle-guardian's locked garden has often been dramatized for the stage, the screen, radio and television, but never before has it been so fully and imaginatively realized. Using the classic form of the traditional American musical, Norman has fashioned a faithful rendition of her source which is equally appealing to children and adults, to devotees of the novel and to Secret Garden newcomers as well. |
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A'o garmiyo A'o jadu Albert appears ALICE Ayah bit of earth charm child cholera CLAIRE Colonial India Comin dead disappear door dream Dreamers early frost exits FAKIR father Fly away home garden grow hate heard someone crying Heidi Landesman It's a maze jadu ke mausam leave LIEUTENANT SHAW LIEUTENANT WRIGHT LILY AND ARCHIBALD Lily and Rose live look Lucy Simon MAJOR HOLMES mantra tantra MARSHA NORMAN MARTHA Mary enters Mary Lennox Mary runs Mary's MARY'S ROOM Master Colin master's gate maze this garden MEDLOCK Misselthwaite Manor Mistress Mary mother Neville night robin Rose and Albert SCENE Secret Garden sits skipped the ladies skipping rope spirit stay storm sure tell THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP thee There's a girl thing is wick topiary Uncle Archibald Uncle Archie walk wander WINTHROP WRIGHT AND SHAW