Article: `SECRET GARDEN': THIN DEEP

THE SECRET GARDEN

Musical in two acts. Adapted by Marsha Norman from the

novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Music by Lucy Simon,

lyrics by Norman. Directed by Susan Schulman. Scenery,

Heidi Landesman. Costumes, Theoni V. Aldredge. Lighting,

Tharon Musser. Choreography, Michael Lichtefeld. At the

Colonial Theater through Nov. 22.

To be as blunt as I can about it, "The Secret Garden" is an impossible bore, a children's classic chewed up and spit out as a romanticized mystery about death and renewal. (It's also about healing the halt with chutzpah and flowers.) At least that's what I think it's supposed to be about. It's hard to tell from the nearly incomprehensible ...

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