Sep 17, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 18 segments
This has been long requested from us, and this week we're joined by the true EXPERT on this show -- Emily Clark -- to talk about The Secret Garden. This is a wholly underrated but well loved musical…
Emily ClarkGuestJesse McAnallyHostAndrew DeWolfHostThe Secret Garden is a musical written by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Francis Hodgson Burnett.
Um, it premiered at the Wells Theatre in Norfolk, Virginia on November 28th of 1989.
It premiered on Broadway in previews April 25th, 1991, at the St. James Theatre, and would close after 709 performances on January 3rd, 1993.
Um, a heavily revised Royal Shakespeare Company production ran at Stratford upon Avon from November 2000 to January 2001, transferring to London's West End at the Aldwych Theatre from February to June 20- 2001.
There was also a 25th anniversary concert, uh, that was held at Lincoln Center on February 21st to the 22nd, 2016, with Cindy- Sydney Lucas and Ben Platt and Ramin Karimloo, and that's the version Andrew watched.
Um, the show was nominated for seven Tonys, won three, Best Book of a Musical, um, and Best Featured Actress for the youngest Tony Award winner, Daisy Eagan.
There used to be a really good show run by a re- really weird man, um, Broadway Backstory, and he did this beautiful documentary about the creation of The Secret Garden-
... especially with, like, hearing from Daisy Eagan's point of view of, like, being in that position and working with these greats like Mandy Patinkin and Philip Quast.
Um, but The Secret Garden centers on Mary Lennox, a spoiled 10-year-old English girl orphaned by a cholera outbreak in the British Raj.
She is sent to live with her reclusive, grieving Uncle Archibald Craven on the Yorkshire moon- moors.
There she discovers a hidden, neglected garden, and with the help of a local boy named Dickon and her invalid cousin Colin, brings it back to life, finding healing and renewal for herself and her fractured family along the way.
The Secret Garden is a musical written by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Francis Hodgson Burnett.
Um, it premiered at the Wells Theatre in Norfolk, Virginia on November 28th of 1989.
It premiered on Broadway in previews April 25th, 1991, at the St. James Theatre, and would close after 709 performances on January 3rd, 1993.
Um, a heavily revised Royal Shakespeare Company production ran at Stratford upon Avon from November 2000 to January 2001, transferring to London's West End at the Aldwych Theatre from February to June 20- 2001.
There was also a 25th anniversary concert, uh, that was held at Lincoln Center on February 21st to the 22nd, 2016, with Cindy- Sydney Lucas and Ben Platt and Ramin Karimloo, and that's the version Andrew watched.
Um, the show was nominated for seven Tonys, won three, Best Book of a Musical, um, and Best Featured Actress for the youngest Tony Award winner, Daisy Eagan.
There used to be a really good show run by a re- really weird man, um, Broadway Backstory, and he did this beautiful documentary about the creation of The Secret Garden-
... especially with, like, hearing from Daisy Eagan's point of view of, like, being in that position and working with these greats like Mandy Patinkin and Philip Quast.
Um, but The Secret Garden centers on Mary Lennox, a spoiled 10-year-old English girl orphaned by a cholera outbreak in the British Raj.
She is sent to live with her reclusive, grieving Uncle Archibald Craven on the Yorkshire moon- moors.
There she discovers a hidden, neglected garden, and with the help of a local boy named Dickon and her invalid cousin Colin, brings it back to life, finding healing and renewal for herself and her fractured family along the way.
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