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How About a Secret Garden Revival??
#50How About a Secret Garden Revival??
Posted: 5/16/12 at 9:41pmI'm loving the idea of Andrew and Celia Keenan-Bolger as Dickon and Martha. How about John Cullum as Ben?
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#51How About a Secret Garden Revival??
Posted: 5/16/12 at 10:14pmI'd like Kelli O'Hara to play Lily.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#52How About a Secret Garden Revival??
Posted: 5/17/12 at 12:05amMikey, I knew the songs certainly alluded to the fact that he wanted to take his life. However from the sounds of it, the original staging had a image of him with a gun actually in hand. I was confused to as whether or not it was just blocking that made it seem like he was literally on the verge of killing himself or if there was a scene and/or song that made it very clear.
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
#53How About a Secret Garden Revival??
Posted: 5/17/12 at 12:42amIn London, didn't he open up a box that had a gun in it and then dropped the gun when Lily appeared during "How Could I Ever Know?"?
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
mikey2573
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/10
#54How About a Secret Garden Revival??
Posted: 5/17/12 at 10:26pm
In the London staging the actor playing Archie did indeed have a gun and was ready to shoot himself right before Lily comes in. The one change they made to the London production that I really liked was a lyric change in that scene:
ARCHIE: How can I let you go?
LILY: Now, you MUST let me go.
That's a keeper.
nyc24601
Swing Joined: 5/20/12
#55How About a Secret Garden Revival??
Posted: 5/20/12 at 10:15am
It was a key in Archie's hand at the beginning of Astoria Performing Arts Center production. May have been difficult to see from certain vantage
points However, the locking noise sealed the deal for me. They were also very creative with their Paris bridge representation for his later scene with Lily.
Archie and Neville do not play other characters in the show.
I hear the production was extended a week. See for yourself?
#56How About a Secret Garden Revival??
Posted: 5/20/12 at 10:29am
Thanks; who do you play? 
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
nyc24601
Swing Joined: 5/20/12
#58How About a Secret Garden Revival??
Posted: 5/20/12 at 6:57pmSingtopher, I saw it in Denver as a child too!
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