magical musical
musical theater production. Here are A.J. Patton as Dickon and Ferrier as Mary.
child to play 10-year-old Mary Lennox in "The Secret Garden," CMU's annual
Briana Ferrier tapped into her inner
The heartwarming musical is based on the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel in which young Mary brings life to her late aunt's secret garden and all
and the healing garden, the production is a celebration of love, life and family.
treasured the book – a gift from an aunt – as a child, and she was honored to play Mary, who off ers so much joy and inspiration.
Ferrier, a musical theater major, says she
up, but Mary starts out as an old soul who feels like a burden to the people around her," she says. "She learns how to grow younger, embrace her youth and be the child she should be." •
"Most plays have children growing PHOTO BY PEGGY BRISBANE
those around her. With ghosts (called Dreamers), an evil doctor, love, magic
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