"The Secret Garden" QuickFacts

Official name: "The Secret Garden"
Official nickname: <non that I know of>
Date it opened on Broadway: April 25, 1991
Date it closed:
Recordings: "The Secret Garden" (there's an American and London version)
Original leads: Rebecca Luker (Lily), Mandy Patinkin (Archi), Daisy Eagen (Mary), Alison Fraser (Martha), Robert Westenburg (Dr. Craven), John Cameron Mitchell (Dicken), John Babcock (Colin).
My favorite performer in it: WOW! Hard question! Mandy Patinkin, and Daisy Eagan are incredible, but they're all SO good!
My favorite song: "Lily's Eyes" is a classic; "Hold On," "Where in the World," "Race you to the Top of the Morning"
Tonies nominated for: Best Featured Actress (Alison Fraser), Best Score (Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman), Best Costum Design (Theoni V Aldredge), and Best Musical.
Tonies Won: Best Featured Actress (Daisy Eagan, youngest ever, age 11), Best Book (Marsha Norman), and Best Scenic Design (Heidi Landesman)
Number of performances: 706 performances
My experience: Apperently, I've seen it . .once, but I seriously have no recollection of it. And my sister says it wasn't very good at all, but I would have loved to see it! It's still runing in England, and was, at one period of time, in Australia as well. Daisy Eagan was the luckiest 11-year-old in the world! I would *LOVE* to be Mary!