Manhattan Concert Productions is pleased to present a concert performance of the TONY Award-winning musical The Secret Garden as the fourth installment of its Broadway Series in 2016 at David Geffen Hall (formerly known as Avery Fisher Hall), Lincoln Center on February 21, 2016 and February 22, 2016.
Following the phenomenal success of Parade earlier this year, Titanic in 2014, and Ragtime in 2013, Manhattan Concert Productions returns to bring Drama Desk and TONY Award-winning The Secret Garden to Lincoln Center. Both concert performances of The Secret Garden will feature over 200 singers from the across the United States; the enlarged forces of the New York City Chamber Orchestra; and a full professional Broadway cast. Cast and creative team announcements to follow.
Based on the 1911 novel of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the musical’s book and lyrics are by Marsha Norman, with music by Lucy Simon. The Secret Garden is set in the early years of the 20th century and follows a young English girl named Mary Lennox who is born and raised in the British Raj, and orphaned by a cholera outbreak when she is eleven years old. She is sent away from India to Yorkshire, England, to live with relatives whom she has never met. Her own personality blossoms as she and a young gardener bring new life to a neglected garden, as well as to her sickly cousin and uncle.
Tickets may be purchased by visiting www.lincolncenter.org; calling CenterCharge (212) 721-6500; or visiting the David Geffen Hall box office at 10 Lincoln Center Plaza (Columbus Avenue at 65th Street).
CAST
Sierra Boggess as Lily
Nikki Renée Daniels as Rose Lennox
Quentin Earl Darrington as Major Holmes
Daisy Eagan as Martha
Julie Halston as Mrs. Winthrop
Cheyenne Jackson as Dr. Neville Craven
Jamie Jackson as Lieutenant Shaw
Ramin Karimloo as Archibald Craven
Telly Leung as Fakir
Sydney Lucas as Mary Lennox
Anisha Nagarajan as Ayah
Ben Platt as Dickon
John Riddle as Lieutenant Wright
Barbara Rosenblat as Mrs. Medlock
Jere Shea as Ben Weatherstaff
Haley Swindal as Alice
Josh Tower as Major Shelley
Oscar Williams as Colin Craven
Josh Young as Captain Albert Lennox