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Video: Go Inside Broadway-Aimed THE SECRET GARDEN Opening Night In Los Angeles
May 17, 2024
Hit the red carpet for opening night of the Broadway-aimed production of 'The Secret Garden' currently playing at Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre through March 26, 2023! See video of the big night as BroadwayWorld takes you inside the opening night festivities with the show's star-studded cast as they take their opening night bows!
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Ooh, it's a dream come true to finally get this piece out into the world
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I have unhealthy amounts of love for this piece, but it feels like the audiences here so far are just like they're living for this
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Just living. I mean, it's a full circle moment. This is the first show that I ever saw as a kid
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So to be able to now step into this role as a person of color to show this to the next generation that anything literally is possible is just a dream
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It's been amazing. I think this show has been waiting for a comeback for so long
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and so to like really be a part of it has been such a dream, and this cast and creative team, everybody is so dreamy
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No, I think it really is all Warren Carlyle's genius brain. That sort of just trickles down into all of us and all of our performances
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and he's really the true, you know, he's our fearless leader. And so everything that you see is really
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coming from his genius. I love anytime I can come and support and see live theater here in L.A.
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especially because I think people think sometimes, like, oh, there's no theater in L.A. There's great theater in L.A
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And it so exciting to like come to it and be a part of these big opening nights and talk to people and see the excitement So it all good Very very good I love this score and I love the show And we all just so grateful to be back performing and to hear the audience response and to be in a huge theater is electrifying
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It's been amazing. It's been really special to like experience the music and embody the character
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The whole cast, the team has been really fun to play with
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The set is incredible. It feels like this amazing poetic playground for an actor
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actor to just live inside of, so that feels really, really fulfilling. This is like my
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LA debut in a lot of ways. I've only been here for like quick weekend trips. But the LA
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audience has been amazing, very responsive. So yeah. Ooh, I mean, it's cliche, but it's
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wick. It's like not taking things at face value. It's seeing something and really looking inside
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of it and seeing and looking for the life that could blossom. I'm just so grateful. I think this
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process has been amazing and the LA audiences have been incredible. I just feel very lucky to be here
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and to be sharing this and finally bringing the show back to life. Yeah, it's been such a long process
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and it doesn't hurt to do a show with your best friend. This is one of my favorite musicals
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with people that I known and loved for years in the cast Julie Lester Sierra and also Warren Carlyle and I have collaborated many times And I just love it It one of the most beautiful musicals of all time
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Yeah, before starting rehearsals, Warren and I had a really great conversation about what he was doing
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and what we can do to bring the representation, specifically of the Indian characters, into the current age
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And so we've changed a couple of rhythms, we've changed some lyrics, we've taken away some things that were a little bit problematic
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And it just makes it a lot easier to do. Yeah. And it's a joy
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Yeah, and I think even we've updated the relationship between Mary and the Indian characters in the show, which is really important
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I think it gives a lot more integrity to what those relationships were in real life
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It's been amazing. I've worked with Warren before, and I love Warren, and I love this production
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and the cast in it, they're so kind. And I actually, I just love this show
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It's so fun. You know, Mary Lennox does anything she can set her mind to
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So I think anything that you set your mind to, you can do, just like Mary. We're storytellers
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So for us we want to bring an audience on a journey that going to be cathartic is going to reflect what they been through And so coming out of the pandemic that exactly what we doing with this story Pain loss everything is in this story but also redemption and hope and love
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So it just gives the audience exactly what they need in this moment
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