Campbellsville University to present 'The Secret Garden' July 4-7

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The Secret Garden

CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY (06/25/2019) (readMedia)-- As you celebrate July 4th, Campbellsville University has another way to celebrate.

"The Secret Garden" musical will be presented by the Campbellsville University Theater Department, Town Hall Productions and Community Trust Bank and will run from Thursday, July 4, until Sunday, July 7 in the Russ Mobley Theater, 114 University Drive, Campbellsville, Ky.

The play is a musical based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

The story is set in the early years of the 20th century and is about Mary Lennox, a young English girl born and raised in the British Raj, who is orphaned when she is ten years old. She is sent away from India to Yorkshire, England, to live with relatives whom she has never met. Her own personality blossoms as she and a young gardener bring new life to a neglected garden, as well as to her sickly cousin and uncle. The play synopsis is from Bard.org.

Tickets can be purchased before the event online at townhallpro2013.ticketleap.com/secret-garden/ or through email at townhallpro.boxoffice@gmail.com. Online ticket sales end at noon the day of the presentation. Afterward, tickets can be reserved at (270) 789-5266 or purchased at the door while supplies last.

General admission tickets are $10 and seniors (65 and under), children (12 and under) and CU employees/students and military are $7.

The play will be showing Thursday, July 4 at 6 p.m.; Friday, July 5, at 7 p.m., Saturday, July 6, at 7 p.m. and Sunday July 7, at 2:30 p.m.

The crew list is as follows: Director, Jason Garrett; Technical Director, Starr Garrett; Stage Manager, Malorie Byrne; Music Director, Alia McClendon; Choreographer, Laura Day; Scene Shop Supervisor, Matt Nall; and Sound Design, Jon Heineman.

The cast for the play will be Andrew Ward as Dr. Neville Craven, Campbellsville, Ky.; Brian Phillips as Lieutenant Wright, Campbellsville, Ky.; Charlotte Archey as Martha, Columbia, Ky.; Elli Wilson as Mary Lennox, Campbellsville, Ky.; Holly Jo Evans as Mrs. Medlock, Barbourville, Ky.; Holly Wilson as Claire Holmes, Campbellsville, Ky.;

Hunter Farmer as Colin Craven, Lebanon, Ky.; Jon Andrew as Albert Lennox, Campbellsville, Ky./Pittsburgh, Pa.; Joseph Mattingly as Major Holmes, Loretto, Ky.; Josie Pruitt as Alice, Greensburg, Ky.; Kevin Durham as Archibald Craven, Campbellsville, Ky./ Lebanon, Ky.;

Les Chadwick as Ben Weatherstaff, Campbellsville, Ky.; Matthew Hutchins as Dickon, Campbellsville, Ky.; Peydon Hall as Mrs. Winthrop, Greensburg, Ky.; Singrid Tipton as Lily, Campbellsville, Ky.; and Trisha Hall as Rose Lennox, Greensburg, Ky.

Campbellsville University is a widely-acclaimed Kentucky-based Christian university with more than 12,000 students offering over 100 programs of study including Ph.D., master, baccalaureate, associate, pre-professional and certification programs. The university has Kentucky based off-campus centers in Louisville, Harrodsburg, Somerset, Hodgenville and Liberty with instructional sites in Elizabethtown, Owensboro and Summersville. Out-of-state centers include two in California at Los Angeles and Lathrop, located in the San Francisco Bay region. The website for complete information is www.campbellsville.edu.

Campbellsville University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award certificates, associate, baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the status of Campbellsville University.