Sis and Bud are fixated on a new musical, The Secret Garden, which is based on the book and appeared on Broadway in the early 1990s. Mama saw the original cast including Tony-winner Daisy Egan; I saw the national tour sometime afterwards in Houston. We both loved it and enjoyed singing along then and after we got together.
We hadn't listened to it for awhile and I can't recall what got us started again. I think Bud heard it one of the songs, "Winter's on the Wing," on Mama's iPod shuffle in the car on the way to kung fu one day. Then on the way to and from various places over the weekend, we listened to the whole soundtrack, explaining the story as we went. Mama and I loved hearing it again, especially the duet, "A Girl in a Valley," which is one of our favorite Broadway love songs.
They're hooked. Bud's tried to play "Winter's on the Wing" on the piano. They've changed their morning wake up music. There are very few videos online, but Mama did show them the Tony performance complete with Mandy Patinkin et al.
And after days of singing about things waking up in gardens, of plants being wick, it's 49F outside and sunny . . . and, best of all, the snowstorm skipped us!
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