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Repertory Philippines opens the gates to “The Secret Garden” as its Christmas season treat for theater goers.  It tells the story of a young girl, born and raised in India, who finds herself suddenly orphaned, and goes to live with her uncle in England.  She discovers a garden, neglected for years and almost dead, and a young cousin bedridden and miserable.  With the help of a housemaid and a friendly young gardener, she brings both the garden and her cousin to life.

Repertory Philippines is set to showcase another musical production; now of Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon’s adaptation of the classic story  The Secret Garden . Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the story revolves around the lives of two abandoned youngsters Mary Lennox and Colin Craven who, through the power of love, begin to transform their spoiled and selfish ways for the better. The show runs simultaneously with Rep’s staging of  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .