The complete cast is now set for the 25th anniversary concert presentation of The Secret Garden. Allegiance's Telly Leung, Josh Young, Fun Home’s Oscar Williams, The Book of Mormon's Nikki Renée Daniels and more will join the lineup that includes Sydney Lucas, Sierra Boggess, Daisy Eagan, Ben Platt and Ramin Karimloo. The event is set for February 21 and 22 at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall.
Leung, Young, Williams and Daniels take on the roles of Fakir, Captain Albert Lennox, Colin Craven and Rose Lennox, respectively. Also joining are Quentin Earl Darrington (Ragtime) as Major Holmes, Julie Halston (You Can’t Take It With You) as Mrs. Winthrop, Jamie Jackson (Doctor Zhivago) as Lieutenant Shaw, Anisha Nagarajan (Bombay Dreams) as Ayah, John Riddle (The Visit) as Lieutenant Wright, Haley Swindal (Jekyll & Hyde) as Alice and Josh Tower (Motown) as Major Shelley.
Stafford Arima directs the Manhattan Concert Productions staging, which will feature the New York City Chamber Orchestra and a 200-voice chorus.
The musical features a score by Lucy Simon and a book and lyrics by Marsha Norman. Orphaned while living in India, 10 year-old Mary Lennox returns to Yorkshire, England to live with her embittered, reclusive uncle Archibald, whom she has never met. There, the ill-tempered and lonely Mary meets Martha, a chambermaid, who tells her of a secret garden which belonged to her aunt Lily before she died.