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A Children's Haven of Healing

THE SECRET GARDEN Music by Lucy Simon; Lyrics and Book by Marsha Norman

When Tyne Daly took an afternoon off from rehearsing Gypsy to attend a musical down the street, she accosted its producer on the way in to demand, "You haven't ruined it, have you? I've loved the novel all my life." That ( same mix of gleeful anticipation and dread is felt by countless other, less celebrated patrons entering The Secret Garden, for many of whom it, rather than Miss Saigon, has been this season's most eagerly awaited Broadway show. Its source, a 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett,...

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