|
|
Article: `SECRET GARDEN': THIN DEEP
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 1992
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
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 ...