The Secret Garden (1991 Original Broadway Cast)
List Price:
Our Price: $7.98
You Save: $4.00 (33%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $2.93 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music CD Cover
Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1991-12-10
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Opening
- Scene: India
- There's a Girl
- Scene: The Library at Misselthwaite Manor
- Scene: A Trains Platform in Yorkshire the House upon the Hill
- I Heard Someone Crying
- Scene: Mary's Sitting Room If I Had a Fine White Horse
- Girl in the Valley
- Scene: Ballroom
- It's a Maze
- Scene: The Greenhouse
- Winter's on the Wing
- Scene: The Edge of the Moor
- Show Me the Key
- Scene: Archibald's Library/A Bit of the Earth
- Storm I
- Lily's Eyes
- Storm II
- Scene: Colin's Room
- Round-Shouldered Man
- Final Storm
- Girl I Mean to Be
- House upon the Hill/Scene: Archibald's Dressing Room
- Quartet/There's a Man
- Race You to the Top of the Morning
- Wick
- Scene: Colin's Room
- Come to My Garden/Lift Me Up
- Come Spirit, Come Charm
- Bit of Earth (Reprise)
- Scene: In the Library/Scene: Mary's Room
- Hold On
- Letter Song
- Where in the World
- How Could I Ever Know?
- Finale
Free Music Notes for The Secret Garden (1991 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: John Cameron Mitchell will always be Dickon for me
Hit: 5 Stars
There are two recordings of The Secret Garden, one being the 1991 Original Broadway cast recording and the other is the London cast recording 2001. Both in my opinion are wonderful musical narratives which allow you to imagine the productions. It does not matter if you missed both productions since both recordings have been arranged much like a musical radio play, the Broadway recording having segments of dialogue through out and this has made me wish very much that another production will eventually come to London, as there isn't a great deal to choose from at the moment which doesn't evoke an allergic reaction from myself. Current Westend productions are too sentimental.
The London cast recording of The Secret Garden is grittier and isn't given over to sentimentality and that is my only quibble with regards to the American cast recording, however it doesn't matter because the spirit of the production is strong enough to make you believe whole heatedly in the world of Mary Lennox and in a lot of ways I prefer the characterisations of Dickon and Mary in the American version because they sound more credible, more natural yet in the London production the sound of the old gardener Ben and his expanded version of "it's a maze", is more gratifying to the ear, the London version could convey the old English archetypes more acutely I think because we can culturally summon up an understanding as too how such people came to be but in the American version they sound at times a little artificial because they sound at times too sentimental.
John Cameron Mitchell however is the unsung star of the American cast recording because he brought to Dickon's character a natural magic and a mystical perception which is slightly off centre to the rest of the world yet his strength is totally enlightened and empowered because he knows how to live with nature and this makes Dickon in the American recording something to take much heart from as we all desire a need to be one with nature more ... he is after all more than just a gardener and his absence of ego makes him a refreshing character for the stage.
If you can, buy both versions because they do present a fuller picture for your ears, both have strengths and both have something about them which inspires you to say "why don't they bring back the Secret Garden", because I feel at the moment the Westend is lacking musicals which have substance
The Secret Garden (1991 Original Broadway Cast) Poster
Inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel of the same name, The Secret Garden was set apart from the beginning by the composition of its creative team. Not many Broadway shows can boast a female composer (Lucy Simon), director (Susan H. Schulman), librettist/lyricist (Marsha Norman), and producer/set designer (Heidi Landesman)--not to mention an 11-year old (Daisy Eagan) in the lead. This story of a little girl who helps her grieving uncle and sickly cousin regain a taste for life is a delicate, lovely achievement. Steeped in moody Victoriana, it should enchant those who enjoy a more understated style of musical theater. The great cast includes Mandy Patinkin, Rebecca Luker as his dead wife Lily's ghost, and the perenially underrated Alison Fraser. --Elisabeth VincentelliBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
Music Genres
Top music charts in Musicals
The Secret Garden (1991 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 1991-12-10; Music CD
Best price: $5.98
Price in other shops:
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 1990-05-15; Music CD
Best price: $8.58
Price in other shops:
Carol Channing, Jerry Herman - Hello, Dolly! (1964 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $7.90
Price in other shops:
She Loves Me (1963 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $7.14
Price in other shops:
Lee Adams - Bye Bye Birdie (1960 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 2000-05-30; Music CD
Best price: $7.18
Price in other shops:
Merrily We Roll Along (1994 Off-Broadway Revival Cast)Release date: 1994-11-01; Music CD
Best price: $10.93
Price in other shops:
Stephen Sondheim - Saturday Night (2000 Off-Broadway Revival Cast)Release date: 2000-06-20; Music CD
Best price: $6.99
Price in other shops:
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1967 Original Off-Broadway Cast)Release date: 2000-10-31; Music CD
Best price: $12.49
Price in other shops:
Anything Goes - The New Broadway Cast RecordingRelease date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $8.18
Price in other shops:
Into the Woods (1987 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 2007-03-20; Music CD
Best price: $8.03
Price in other shops:
Top Rated Albums
Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)Release date: 1994-04-26; Music CD
Best price: $8.98
Price in other shops:
Jekyll & Hyde - The Musical (1997 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 1997-07-15; Music CD
Best price: $11.85
Price in other shops:
Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 2006-12-12; Music CD
Best price: $10.52
Price in other shops:
Original Cast Recording - Disney's The Little Mermaid (2008 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 2008-02-26; Music CD
Best price: $13.20
Price in other shops:
Les Miserables (1987 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $19.99
Price in other shops:
The Scarlet Pimpernel: The New Musical Adventure - Original Broadway Cast RecordingRelease date: 1998-02-03; Music CD
Best price: $6.87
Price in other shops:
Into the Woods (1987 Original Broadway Cast)Release date: 2007-03-20; Music CD
Best price: $8.03
Price in other shops:
Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast)WICKED; Release date: 2003-12-16; Music CD
Best price: $9.99
Price in other shops:
The Secret GardenWarner Brothers; Release date: 1997-11-19; DVD
Best price: $3.91
Price in other shops:
Secret Garden: Vocal SelectionsAlfred; Warner Bros. Publications; Published: 1992-01-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.72
Price in other shops: