Lucy Simon (Composer), Marsha Norman (Book and Lyrics)

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	• The Secret Garden Simon, Lucy, ... Alfred Publishing, 1992 - 48 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews
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highly recommended

Better than you'd think!

The Secret Garden treads a fine line between soppy and gritty and does it pretty well. Although some of the lyrics are not very good, the score has some very nice moments, and there are a couple of songs likely to appeal to many people, not just young girls. Most of the songs are relatively difficult in one way or another.

Just right!

We were very pleased with this collection of songs. The level was appropriate for my 9 year old daughter who saw the play and loved the music. She loves to sing the songs and play along with the piano. I just wish there were more songs from the musical in this affordable book.

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$100 Music Score for $63

Fantastic complete score. Looked for it all over the internet and low and behold I found it at Amazon at a fraction of the online and instore price.

Lucy Simon (Composer), Marsha Norman (Book and Lyrics)

"LUCY SIMON (Composer) makes her Broadway debut with The Secret Garden for which she received a Tony Award nomination.
Fanny Hackabout Jones, a collaboration with Erica Jong and Susan Birkenhead, was produced at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.
Ms. Simon also contributed songs to the Off-Broadway hit A...My Name Is Alice.
In addition to her musical theatre work, Ms. Simon has won two Grammy Awards for her In Harmony albums, which she wrote and produced, and has recorded two solo albums for RCA Records.
Ms. Simon began her professional singing, composing and recording career at age 16 with her sister Carly as part of the Simon Sisters.
She lives in NY with her husband David Levine and their children, Julie and James."

"MARSHA NORMAN (Book and Lyrics) received the Tony Award for The Secret Garden.
She is the PulitzerPrize winning author of 'night, Mother.
For that play, she also received the coveted Hull-Warriner Award and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Her first play, Getting Out, received the Gassner Medallion and the Newsday Oppenheimer Award.
Her other plays include Third and Oak, The Laundromat, The Pool Hall, Sarah and Abraham.
She has also published a novel, The Fortune Teller.
Though The Secret Garden is Marsha Norman's first musical, she grew up studying piano, and later played her way through college, serving as accompanist for a dance group and pianist for student musical productions.
She has received grants from the National Endowment, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
Ms. Norman is the Treasurer of the Council of the Dramatists Guild."

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A classic children's novel gets a Broadway treatment

"The Secret Garden", the bestselling children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, came to Broadway as a musical in 1991 and ran until 1993. Along the way, the musical won three Tony Awards, including Best Book of a Musical, written by Marsha Norman.

If you loved the novel as a kid, you might consider this book of the Tony-winning musical!

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A Bit of Earth
* Come to My Garden
* The Girl I Mean to Be
* Hold On
* How Could I Ever Know?
* If I Had a Fine White Horse
* Lily's Eyes
* Race You to the Top of the Morning.

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