The Secret Garden (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 Secret Garden
Marsha Norman
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
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.