How About a Secret Garden Revival??- Page 3

[The Josh]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 9:41pm

I'm loving the idea of Andrew and Celia Keenan-Bolger as Dickon and Martha. How about John Cullum as Ben?

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 5/16/12 at 10:14pm

I'd like Kelli O'Hara to play Lily.

[fingerlakessinger]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 12:05am

Mikey, 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.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/17/12 at 12:42am

In 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?"?

[mikey2573]

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]

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?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/20/12 at 10:29am

Thanks; who do you play?

[nyc24601]

Posted: 5/20/12 at 10:32am

I am not in the show.

[someone.else's.story2]

Posted: 5/20/12 at 6:57pm

Singtopher, I saw it in Denver as a child too!