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Living With Ghosts In a 'Secret Garden'

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20070719
Author:Michael J Toscano

"I see dead people." That's not a line from "The Secret Garden," now being staged by the McLean Community Players, but you will be excused if the movie catchphrase pops into your mind now and again.

And probably again.

Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's novel, this haunting musical weaves charming English folk melodies and operetta vocals in an elegiac world of gloom and grief in which ghosts dominate the living.

But along with layers of sorrow, writer Marsha Norman and composer Lucy Simon have adapted the unusual story and unconventional characters that have drawn generations of ...

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