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Article: HOW THE SECRET GARDEN BLOOMED IN SONG AND DANCE Producer Heidi Landesman brings her vision of the children's classic to the stage
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 1, 1992
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Given its reputation as a children's classic published in 1911,
ten years after the dust had blown off the Victorian Era, "The Secret
Garden" has had a hard time finding its way to the musical theater.
Like "Little Lord Fauntleroy," Frances Hodgson Burnett's other famous
novel, "The Secret Garden" centers on a search for acceptance, a
theme clearly as relevant to adults as to children. Matters are
mucked up (kept at grade-school level) in "Lord Fauntleroy" in a
"mistaken identity" plot involving a cheeky American boy who becomes
a British earl. In "Secret Garden," Mary Lennox, a plucky 10-year
old orphan, works her way through a far more interesting mystery.
It's a mystery that has always ...