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Friday, May 24, 1991

The Secret Garden, Original Broadway Cast (1991)

Cast: Rebecca Luker (Lily), Daisy Eagan (Mary Lennox), Mandy Patinkin (Archibald Craven), Robert Westenberg (Dr. Neville Craven)
For complete cast info, see IBDb's The Secret Garden page.

The cast of The Secret Garden was totally amazing. They assembled some of the best voices on Broadway and put them in this musical.

The music is good, though at times it seems a bit too repititious. I particularly love Wick, Lily's Eyes and If I had a Fine White Horse. The childrens' chanting is also very well done.

The giant sculptures in the garden are a bit much, and very ugly. Perhaps that was how they were intended to come across, since the garden is initially a scary place for Mary, but it was still a bit over the top.

I've always enjoyed the story of The Secret Garden and I think Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon did a good job of getting it across in a new medium.

Grade: B

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