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Article: 'Secret Garden' composer planning more projects with 'human connections'. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- October 27, 1993
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PHILADELPHIA _ In shimmering lacy gowns, ghosts of the dead waltz across the stage, while their survivors sing mournfully of how much they are missed. Meanwhile, a sourpuss of a little girl, with some help from a Yorkshire-speaking robin, a country boy named Dickon and a curmudgeonly older servant, slowly nurses a garden back to life.
If ``The Secret Garden,'' a musical tale of loss and recovery, is not exactly action-packed, that's no accident, one member of its all-female creative team explained recently.
``If I were to pinpoint anything that makes `The Secret Garden' different because four women created it ... it's the unfolding of the story. Women will allow things ...