How Long Is The Secret Garden Musical

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Cast Size

7f, 8m, 1girl(s), 1boy(s)
Duration

90 minutes
Subgenre

Theatre for Young Audiences
Target Audience

Appropriate for all audiences

Accolades

Winner! Three 1991 Tony Awards®, including Best Book of a Musical
Nominee: Seven 1991 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical and Best Score
Winner! Three 1991 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Book and Orchestrations
Nominee: Thirteen 1991 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical, Music and Lyrics

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The Secret Garden: Spring Version

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Summary

The long-awaited new 70-minute version of the beloved musical The Secret Garden is as beautiful and spirited as the original in just half the time.

This new "Spring Version" promises to be a treasure for children and adults!

History

The Secret Garden opened at the St. James Theatre on April 25, 1991 after 23 previews. The show played for a total of 709 performances and closed on January 3, 1993.

Cast Attributes

Expandable casting
Features Children
Roles for Children
Room for Extras

Performing Groups

Jr High/Primary
High School/Secondary
Large Stage

MARY LENNOX - an orphan girl of about 10
COLIN CRAVEN - a sickly boy of about 10. Mary and Colin are cousins, their mothers were sisters

SPIRITS:
ALBERT andROSE LENNOX – Mary's Parents
LILY CRAVEN– Colin's Mother

AT MISSELTHWAITE:
ARCHIBALD CRAVEN – Mary's Uncle, Colin's Father
DR. NEVILLE CRAVEN – Archibald's brother
MRS. MEDLOCK – Archibald's housekeeper
BEN WEATHERSTAFF – The Head Gardener
MARTHA – a housemaid
DICKON – Martha's brother, a magical boy who talks to birds
MRS. WINTHROP – headmistress of the Aberdeen School for Girls
Two MEN andTwo WOMEN – servants, passengers, Indian officers, etc.

Time Period Contemporary, 1900-1910
Setting Colonial India and Misselthwaite Manor in England. 1906.
Features Period Costumes
Additional Features No intermission
Duration 90 minutes
Cautions
- No Special Cautions

Media

"The young (and not so young) loved it!" - Broadway World

"This heartwarming story is beautifully told in Lucy Simon's alternately gorgeous and lilting score, most of whose best songs are heard in full, even in this 75-minute version of the show." - The Stage, Read More

"Due to careful editing down to a pacy 70 minutes all-through...the young (and not so young) loved it!" - Broadway World, Read More

ON BREAKING CHARACTER

Staff Picks: THE SECRET GARDEN
by Courtney Kochuba with Ben Coleman
January 13, 2015

Videos

The Secret Garden, Spring Version
The Secret Garden, 1991 Tony Awards

Music

Song Samples

Musical StyleClassic Broadway
Vocal DemandsEasy
Orchestra SizePiano Only
Chorus SizeMedium

Materials

Music Rentals

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1 Piano-Vocal
17 Vocal Books

This title is orchestrated for Piano Only.

Authors

Marsha Norman

Marsha Norman - award winning playwright - won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize, Blackburn Prize, Hull-Warriner, and Drama Desk Awards for her play 'Night, Mother. In 1992 she won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for her book for the Broadway musical, The Secret Garden. She also wr ...

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Lucy Simon

When Lucy Simon was in grade school, a class assignment was to memorize a poem and recite it in class. The only way she could do it was to put it to a melody. The poem she chose was "Wynken Blynken and Nod" by Eugene Field. It is the first song she ever wrote. Several years ...

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