A little dark and gothic feeling but ultimately sweet and lovely. Gotta love a nice garden and a happy ending!

It’s a beautiful show with a phenomenal score. Dramatic yet lyrical, it plays like an operetta. It makes me want to read the original

Goodness only knows how many times I've read it. It kept sending me away and not telling me when to come back and all the song lyrics are messed up but on the whole it's a very good play.

Marsha Norman’s book and lyrics for the musical The Secret Garden is a delight. This book is a wonderful way to introduce the show or to relive a performance one has seen. I, personally, have seen four different productions of The Secret Garden, and reading the script here brought back so many memories. I also was able to “discover” small things that a theater-goer can miss while getting caught up in the overall production or forget over the years since seeing the show. I decided to re-read the script in order to help with a novel I’m writing in which a production of the show is prominent. But not only did the reading refresh my memory, it opened me up to many possibilities for my own characters’ motivations. A good theater piece should do just that—not only entertain but make us think as to how it applies to our own lives.

True to the original classic but magnified by the glorious music...

This is my favorite play of all time! I’m not sure when I discovered it, but I loved it right away. The music is beautiful! It was fun to read it.

Has all the lyrics and script. A few swear words but other than that it was good.