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Sap runs freely in Lamplighters' production of 'Secret Garden'

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20080122
Author:Pat Craig

SET TO music, "The Secret Garden" remains true to its literary roots.

The 1888 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a sweet, sentimental tale of a young orphan girl cast adrift in a cruel world, forced to live with an uncle paralyzed by his own grief and a young cousin paralyzed by an illness that has kept him bedridden most of his life.

The girl, of course, must find a way to reach her uncle and cousin if she ever hopes to end up at happily ever after. It is the stuff from which Victorian kid-lit and Shirley Temple movies are spun.

And it is beautifully and elegantly recreated by ...

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