Lola Coverdale: Secret Garden: Vocal Selections

Secret Garden: Vocal Selections

From the Back Cover For her first venture into music-theatre, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman, in collaboration with composer Lucy Simon, achieved Broadway success with the moving book and lyrics she adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved 1911 novel, The Secret Garden.

The story of 10-year-old orphan Mary Lennox and her search for friendship, love and an understanding of the past in her lonely uncle-guardian's locked garden has often been dramatized for the stage, the screen, radio and television, but never before has it been so fully and imaginatively realized.

Using the classic form of the traditional American musical, Norman has fashioned a faithful rendition of her source which is equally appealing to children and adults, to devotees of the novel and to Secret Garden newcomers as well.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author Kentucky-based playwright Marsha Norman was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "'night, Mother" and a Tony Award for her Broadway-musical adaptation of "The Secret Garden".

Her other plays include "Getting Out", "Third and Oak", "Circus Valentine", "The Holdup", and "Traveler in the Dark".

Kentucky-based playwright Marsha Norman was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for "'night, Mother" and a Tony Award for her Broadway-musical adaptation of "The Secret Garden".

Her other plays include "Getting Out", "Third and Oak", "Circus Valentine", "The Holdup", and "Traveler in the Dark".

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 12 vocal selections from the haunting Broadway musical based on the beloved children's novel. Includes: A Bit of Earth * The Girl I Mean to Be * Hold On * How Could I Ever Know? * If I Had a Fine White Horse * Where in the World * Winter's on the Wing * and more.

Consumer review about Secret Garden: Vocal Selections :
There are some great songs in this book, especially AB grade 3 'The Girl I meant to be' and grade 6 'How could I ever know'. I've taught these for AB and also Music Theatre exams and there are a couple of others that are excellent for the latter. Not the easiest piano parts but the songs do have great accompaniments and nothing is ridiculously difficult (certainly not compared to some of the piano parts in the original 'Wicked' book!). Highly recommended.(Read more)