Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN

By: May. 16, 2012
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THE ASTORIA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (APAC) reunites the creative team behind their The Human Comedy and Children of Eden with THE SECRET GARDEN, musical staging by Christine O'Grady, musical directed by Jeffrey Campos and directed by APAC Artistic Director Tom Wojtunik.

THE SECRET GARDEN is playing a limited engagement at the Good Shepherd United Methodist Church (30-44 Crescent St, Astoria, NY 11102. Entrance on 30th Road.) Performances began Thursday, May 3 and are set to continue through to May 26. 

Living in a lonely manor house in 1906 England, Archibald Craven yearns for his beautiful, late wife. He blames his crippled son, Colin, for his wife's death and has left him neglected and isolated. Their quiet routine is turned upside down when young Mary Lennox, a rich, spoiled child, is sent to live with them following the death of her parents by cholera in India.

While living at the manor house, Mary discovers a secret walled garden hidden in the grounds and releases the magic and adventures locked inside, changing their lives forever. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, in collaboration with composer Lucy Simon, achieved Broadway success with the moving book and lyrics adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved 1911 novel. Using the classic form of the traditional American musical, they have fashioned a faithful rendition of the novel, equally appealing to children and adults, to devotees of the novel and to Secret Garden newcomers as well.

Photo Credit: Michael Dekker

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Michael Jennings Mahoney and Hannah Lewis

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Jaimie Kelton and Hannah Lewis

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Jennifer Evans and PatRick Porter

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Cast of THE SECRET GARDEN

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Hannah Lewis and Jaimie Kelton

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Cast of THE SECRET GARDEN

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Michael Jennings Mahoney

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Sam Poon and Hannah Lewis

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Michael Jennings Mahoney and Hannah Lewis

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Cast of THE SECRET GARDEN

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
Jaimie Kelton and Hannah Lewis

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN
PatRick Porter

Photo Flash: First Look at APAC's THE SECRET GARDEN



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