5-part Video-Podcast series Chronicling Career of late the Secret Garden composer Lucy Simon starts October 25

Video5-part video-podcast series Chronicling Career of Late The secret garden The composer Lucy Simon begins on October 25

The Tony-nominated Broadway composer passed away on October 20 at the age of 82.

Broadway Podcast Network introduces a new, five -part series that channels the life and career of late The secret garden composer Lucy Simon October 25. Titled Four Lucy Simonthe series is fully available as videos on YouTube and as a podcast. Watch the first suspension of the video series above, which covers the early years of the Tony nominated.

The exemption was in the works before Simon’s death on October 20 on October 8 at the age of 82, with episodes recorded between March and October.

Included have never been stories of Simon and a number of her co -workers before Judy Collins, Marshall Brickman, Marsha Norman, Warren Carlyleand others. There are also new performances of songs of songs included The secret garden and Doctor Zhivago with Sierra Boggess, Daisy Eagan, John Cameron Mitchelland Ramin karimloo.

“I can’t exceed the impact Lucy has had on my life,” Eagan says. ‘The secret garden Was a formative experience for me, and literally saved my life. Lucy’s music helped me carry an extremely difficult personal time, and of course helped to shape my professional life. Dozens of people have told me over the years that the original cast of The secret garden got them through their own difficult times. The countless people who touched Lucy with her gift will keep her in their hearts forever. ‘

Simon is best remembered for her most lasting job, Broadway’s The secret garden. Together with book writer and lyricist Marsha Norman, Simon sent music to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel about a young girl sent to live with her exclusive, mourning uncle in Yorkshire after an outbreak of Cholera outbreak her entire family in British occupied India. Although most adjustments of the work made themselves more for children’s audiences, Simon and Norman’s version in the themes of rebirth of the novel leaned in the aftermath of in -depth loss with an adjustment that placed the loved ones of the characters on stage as an ensemble of ghosts that followed them around the dark and secluded Misselthwaite. Behind the scenes, the musical made history for its extraordinary (for the time) female centric creative team, which includes Norman and Simon with director Susan H. Schulmanscenic designer and producer Heidi Ektetercostume designer Theoni V. Aldredgeand lighting designer Tharon Musser;; The work also made Simon only the third woman to set up a score for Broadway.

The musical would acquire seven Tony nominations in 1991, including a nod to Simon’s score, with young star Daisy Eagan who won the best actress in a musical and became the youngest actor to win a Tony award at the age of 11. The secret garden has become one of the most produced musicals in the canon at schools and community and regional theaters across the country. A new revival in Broadway is Set to make his debut At Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, California, early next year.

Four Lucy Simon is produced by Loraine Boyle, Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, Kimberlee Garris, and the Broadway Music Network, a division of Broadway Podcast Network.

The full video series is available on Youtube. Visit for more information on the Audio-Legs-Podcast version Bpn.fm.

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Look back at the original production of The Secret Garden on Broadway

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