The Secret Garden Revival?

What do you all think? Do you think this show will ever get a revival? Should it, or should it not be revived? Should any revival be true to the original broadway, or would you be more interested in a mounting based on the London production?

Just curious as to everyone's opinions.

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Updated On: 4/9/07 at 01:42 AM

We could have a huge rose at the proscenium that would shoot pollon on us at key moments!

Are you drunk?

The creative team were apparently unhappy overall with the changes they tried for the London production; as they won't allow the revised London script to be licensed.

If they revive it, can they hand out pillows with tickets. Cause if I'm gonna sleep through a show, I'd rather have a pillow at these prices.

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The benefit concert that they did last year was amazing, and the cast was perfection, it's too bad that they didn't record it. I think the production would be amazing if it was stipped to it's bare essentials, and let the music speak for itself.

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neddyfrank2 - That was a joke. A spoof of the Wicked set.

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The only thing I want to see/hear from the London production are:
1) Lily's Eyes (Best IMO)
2) Linzi Hateley (She ROCKED on "Hold On")

Otherwise, I would really enjoy a new quasi-bare bone production. Although (and don't let it go to your head), part of B3's set idea, about the decay could be integrated, and probably look beautiful if done right.

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Jeanine Tesori would be the other that jumped to my mind.

I think Secret Garden would make for a great revival one of these days. It's such an under-rated show with both a beautiful score and a powerful book. That story (and especially the way the musical tells it) is just beautiful and when presented right it never fails to move me.

I DO hope if/when they revive it, they'll go back to the original version of "It's a Maze". I miss that actually being a song as opposed to the montage-like sequence written for the tour that is now licensed. As for the different endings to "I Heard Someone Crying", I'm okay with both. I like the original but understand why one might side with the latter.

And let's not even talk about the London revisions. To answer an earlier question, many songs were re-arranged (as to where in the show they fall), the opening was deleted (WHY?) and most importantly, all ghosts were deleted save Lily Rose and Albert. The chorus became a chorus of servants. Big shame, seeing as the ghosts are much of what makes the show interesting and indeed powerful. The cathartic release of the ghosts being able to leave during the final reprise of "Come to My Garden" is, in my opinion, powerful enough alone to warrant NEVER cutting the ghosts.

I would love to see a professional production of the show. The music is AMAZING. One of the best scores there is.

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I love this show. A helped out with costumes for a High School production near me a couple years ago, and it was amazing. Didn't expect to like it, but really lovely show.
I would love to see a revival of this someday soon.

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Mary Rodgers is another female composer.

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Whatever they were aiming for in London they missed by a mile. Watching it was like one of those dreams where you're doing something familiar, and yet everything is wrong. And the 7 foot tall, carrot topped Dicken was just ludicrous.

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