The Secret Garden | |
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Music | Lucy Simon |
Lyrics | Marsha Norman |
Book | Marsha Norman |
Basis | The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett |
Productions | 1989 Virginia Stage Company 1991 Broadway 1992 US Tour 1995 Australia Tour 2001 West End 2016 25th Anniversary Concert 2016 West End Revival 2016 US Tour 2022 West End Concert |
Awards | Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical |
The Secret Garden is a musical based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The musical's script and lyrics are by Marsha Norman, with music by Lucy Simon. It premiered on Broadway in 1991 and ran for 709 performances.[1]
The story is set in the early years of the 20th century.[n 1] Mary Lennox, an English girl born and raised in the British Raj, is orphaned by a cholera outbreak when she is ten years old. She is sent away from India to the moors of Yorkshire, England, to live in the manor of a brooding uncle she has never met. There, her personality blossoms among the other residents of the manor as they bring new life to a long-neglected garden.
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