The Magic of 'The Secret Garden' Comes to Danbury

DANBURY, CT—The Wooster School Theater Department invites all to enjoy its staging of the masterful musical “The Secret Garden”. This timeless tale includes classic characters and spellbinding songs that you will never forget.

"High on a hill sits a big old house with something wrong inside it." This is gloomy Misselthwaite Manor, where poor Mary Lennox, recently orphaned in India by the cholera epidemic of 1906, must now live. With only ghosts for playmates she sets out to unlock the secrets of both garden and hall. Along the way she discovers an unknown cousin, a magical boy who talks with animals, and the healing power of nature.

With a soaring, glorious score the story is told. Wooster School Theater Department proudly presents "The Secret Garden," book and lyrics by Marsha Norman, music by Lucy Simon, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Performances will be held in the Black Box Theatre located on the campus of Wooster School, 91 Miry Brook Road, Danbury, Connecticut 06810, on: Friday, February 28 at 7:30 pm, Saturday, February 29 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm, Thursday, March 5 at 7:00 pm, Friday, March 6 at 7:30 pm, Saturday, March 7 at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm.

All tickets are $15 each. Ticket purchases can be made at: http://woosterschool.org/secretgarden.

Seating is extremely limited, so we ask that you please honor your reservation.

ABOUT WOOSTER SCHOOL

Our purpose is to prepare young people for fulfillment, happiness, and success in life through the rigorous and healthy development of intellect, conscience, body, and spirit. The Wooster School community fosters a culture rich in thinking, learning, relationships, and Self-Help. Our students develop the skills, dispositions, and knowledge necessary to confidently and resiliently engage the world as people of conscience, compassion, and action.

The Reverend Dr. Aaron C. Coburn, Wooster School's founder and the first headmaster, was a powerful man who knew what he believed in and had a very clear idea of why he started a school, and what sort of a school it should be. The legend is that sometime during the year 1925, Dr. Coburn was sitting on the back porch of the Rectory of St. James Church, Danbury, of which he had by then been Rector for 15 years, and suddenly turned toward the Senior Warden, George Green (destined to become a trustee for nearly 40 years) and said, "You know, in all the years that I have been Rector of this Church, I don't think I have saved a single soul. The trouble is, they're all too old. Let's start a school. Maybe if we begin working on younger people we can do better." So the charter of Wooster School was registered with the State of Connecticut in November, 1925, and the school opened the following fall.