NewsSee Brandi Burkhardt, Kevin Earley and Charlotte Maltby Bring Storybook Take On Secret Garden to LifeThe Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park opens its 2015-16 season with the heartwarming, soaring musical The Secret Garden, based on the enduring family classic penned more than a century ago by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Winner of three Tony Awards on Broadway, with book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon, The Secret Garden runs Sept. 5-Oct. 3 in the Playhouse鈥檚 Robert S. Marx Theatre.
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Matthew Blank
September 16, 2015
"When 10-year-old Mary Lennox loses her parents to a devastating cholera outbreak in India, she is sent 6,000 miles away to live with her inattentive uncle at his foreboding English manor. Like Mary, Archibald Craven knows suffering, having never recovered from the death of his wife, Mary鈥檚 Aunt Lily, a decade earlier."
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Brandi Burkhardt, Kevin Earley, Adam Monley and Charlotte Maltby Unlock The Secret Garden in Cincinnati
Brandi Burkhardt, Kevin Earley, Adam Monley and Charlotte Maltby Unlock The Secret Garden in Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park opens its 2015-16 season with the heartwarming, soaring musical The Secret Garden, based on the enduring family classic penned more than a century ago by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Winner of three Tony Awards on Broadway, with book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon, The Secret Garden runs Sept. 5-Oct. 3 in the Playhouse鈥檚 Robert S. Marx Theatre.
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Brandi Burkhardt and Kevin Earley
Mikki Schaffner
Caitlin Cohn (center)
Mikki Schaffner
Caitlin Cohn
Mikki Schaffner
Cameron Bartell and Caitlin Cohn
Mikki Schaffner
Charlotte Maltby, Caitlin Cohn, Talia Noelle Zoll and Carlyn Connolly
"Selfish and spoiled, left mostly on her own, Mary has a difficult time adjusting to the peculiarities of her new home, where it seems as though the spirits of those who鈥檝e come before her are always just out of sight. That is until she is befriended by the plucky housemaid Martha and her brother Dickon, who introduces Mary to the wonders of nature all around her. When Mary discovers the locked-away secrets of an abandoned garden, she coaxes far more than its flowers back to life."
directs a cast that features Cameron Bartell (Dickon), Dan Beckmann (Captain Albert Lennox/Ensemble), (Lily), Caitlin Cohn (Mary Lennox), Carlyn Connolly (Claire Holmes/Ensemble), (Archibald Craven), Anthony Frederickson (Colin Craven), (Martha), Timothy McDevitt (Lieutenant Peter Wright/Ensemble), (Dr. Neville Craven), (Mrs. Medlock), Vishal Vaidya (Fakir/Ensemble), Jessica Van Kipp (Rose Lennox), Anita Vasan (Ayah/Ensemble), (Ben Weatherstaff), Michael Yeshion (Major Holmes/Ensemble) and Talia Noelle Zoll (Alice/Ensemble).
Tickets to are on sale now. For more information, call the Playhouse Box Office at 513-421-3888 (toll-free in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana at 800-582-3208) or visit .