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The Secret Garden (1991 Original Broadway Cast) |  | Artists: Lucy Simon, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Luker, Daisy Eagan
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 3177
Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
UPC: 074644881721
EAN: 0074644881721
ASIN: B000002862
Release Date: December 10, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Opening | | • | There's a Girl | | • | Scene: The Library at Misselthwaite Manor - | | • | Scene: A Trains Platform in Yorkshire/The House Upon the Hill | | • | I Heard Someone Crying | | • | Scene: Mary's Sitting Room/If I Had a Fine White Horse | | • | Girl in the Valley | | • | Scene: Ballroom - | | • | It's a Maze | | • | Scene: The Greenhouse - | | • | Winter's on the Wing | | • | Scene: The Edge of the Moor - | | • | Show Me the Key | | • | Scene: Archibald's Library/A Bit of the Earth | | • | Storm I | | • | Lily's Eyes | | • | Storm II | | • | Scene: Colin's Room - | | • | Round-Shouldered Man | | • | Final Storm | | • | The Girl I Mean to Be | | • | The House Upon the Hill/Scene: Archibald's Dressing Room - | | • | Quartet/There's a Man | | • | Race You to the Top of the Morning | | • | Wick | | • | Come to My Garden/Lift Me Up | | • | Come Spirit, Come Charm | | • | Bit of Earth (Reprise) | | • | Scene: In the Library/Scene: Mary's Room - | | • | Hold On | | • | Letter Song | | • | Where in the World | | • | How Could I Ever Know? | | • | Finale |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel of the same name, The Secret Garden was set apart from the beginning by the composition of its creative team. Not many Broadway shows can boast a female composer (Lucy Simon), director (Susan H. Schulman), librettist/lyricist (Marsha Norman), and producer/set designer (Heidi Landesman)--not to mention an 11-year old (Daisy Eagan) in the lead. This story of a little girl who helps her grieving uncle and sickly cousin regain a taste for life is a delicate, lovely achievement. Steeped in moody Victoriana, it should enchant those who enjoy a more understated style of musical theater. The great cast includes Mandy Patinkin, Rebecca Luker as his dead wife Lily's ghost, and the perenially underrated Alison Fraser. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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| Customer Reviews:
 Beautiful music September 6, 2010
Allen Grymes
Music is surprisingly well done. Having never seen the play, I was skeptical as to how someone would write and compose music to tell the story. However, I believe the music does a good job of assisting in the telling of the story. I would recommend it to anyone interested in community theatre.
 Excellent Musical! February 4, 2010
S. Bryant (San Diego, CA United States)
First of all... this is one of my favorite Broadway musicals (so I may be a tiny bit biased). Every song is excellent and it helps to see the show in order to follow the complex story line. The voices are heavenly (especially Lily) and the overall emotional effect is strong when listening to the entire CD.
There are some fantastic duos (Lily's Eyes) and some other complex arrangement that have four singers simultaneously singing different lyrics (Quartet - There's a Man... track #24). I can't praise this musical enough.
To the one reviewer who gave this musical a single star for being "atonal" - among other things... go get a life and a musical education! I literally guffawed while reading your silly review.
John Cameron Mitchell will always be Dickon for me May 9, 2009
Horatio Guttersnipe (London, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are two recordings of The Secret Garden, one being the 1991 Original Broadway cast recording and the other is the London cast recording 2001. Both in my opinion are wonderful musical narratives which allow you to imagine the productions. It does not matter if you missed both productions since both recordings have been arranged much like a musical radio play, the Broadway recording having segments of dialogue through out and this has made me wish very much that another production will eventually come to London, as there isn't a great deal to choose from at the moment which doesn't evoke an allergic reaction from myself. Current Westend productions are too sentimental.
The London cast recording of The Secret Garden is grittier and isn't given over to sentimentality and that is my only quibble with regards to the American cast recording, however it doesn't matter because the spirit of the production is strong enough to make you believe whole heatedly in the world of Mary Lennox and in a lot of ways I prefer the characterisations of Dickon and Mary in the American version because they sound more credible, more natural yet in the London production the sound of the old gardener Ben and his expanded version of "it's a maze", is more gratifying to the ear, the London version could convey the old English archetypes more acutely I think because we can culturally summon up an understanding as too how such people came to be but in the American version they sound at times a little artificial because they sound at times too sentimental.
John Cameron Mitchell however is the unsung star of the American cast recording because he brought to Dickon's character a natural magic and a mystical perception which is slightly off centre to the rest of the world yet his strength is totally enlightened and empowered because he knows how to live with nature and this makes Dickon in the American recording something to take much heart from as we all desire a need to be one with nature more ... he is after all more than just a gardener and his absence of ego makes him a refreshing character for the stage.
If you can, buy both versions because they do present a fuller picture for your ears, both have strengths and both have something about them which inspires you to say "why don't they bring back the Secret Garden", because I feel at the moment the Westend is lacking musicals which have substance
 An exceptionally well produced cast album April 4, 2009
Mark Andrew Lawrence (Toronto)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While most cast recordings do a fine job preserving the songs from a show, this one goes a step further. Producer Thomas Sheppard has laid out the disc to contain an abridged version of the whole show, using a generous amount of dialogue to bridge the songs. Those who ahve seen the show will find the dialogue refreshes their memories of what happened on stage. Those who did not see the show can listen to this CD from start to finish and fell as if they have seen it.
The one drawback is that if you want to excerpt a single number it is a little difficult because the tracks all segue together.
The original cast cannot be bettered. Daisy Egan won over so many people with her tearfully heartfelt acceptance speech at the 1991 Tony Awards. Mandy Patinkin and Robert Westenberg duet nicely as the uncles, Allison Fraser has one of her best roles here, and John Cameron Mitchell makes a terrific Dickon.
After being out-of-print for several years, Sony has re-released this CD at a very affordable price.
Worth many a listen February 7, 2009
KatySally (Katy, Texas)
This is a Broadway show that didn't receive enough plaudits, with a sterling cast including Mandy Patinkin, Rebecca Luker, and Daisy Eagan as Mary Lennox (the part for which she received a Tony Award). Beautiful music and an arresting story - a must for any Broadway fan.
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