Based upon the Victorian novel of the same name by Frances Hodges Burnett, "The Secret Garden" pulls us back in time to 1906, to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire, England where a grieving, hunchbacked widower, Archibald Craven, his ailing 10-year-old son, Colin, and his physician brother, Neville, live.

Into their lives, from India, comes Mr. Craven's recently orphaned niece, a sour-faced 10-year-old little girl named Mary Lennox. Each of these characters struggles with his/her own ghosts from the past who haunt their waking and dreaming. When Mary asks her Uncle Archie, "Does everyone who dies become a ghost?" He answers, "They're only a ghost if someone alive is still holding onto them."

So, as Mary learns to find happiness at Misselthwaite through the healing companionship of her chambermaid, Martha, and Martha's brother, Dickon, she recognizes the ghostly unhappiness in the household and through her gentle tending, brings the story to its uplifting ending.

The beautiful music of Lucy Simon, including such songs as "Winter's on the Wing" and "Lily's Eyes", lifts the emotional experience of this enduring story to new heights for both children and adults.

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