Lake Highlands Junior High 8th grader Kelsey Buckley has landed a starring role in the Garland Civic Theatre production of The Secret Garden, with performances scheduled for just after Christmas. An alum of White Rock Elementary, Kelsey is a member of Limited Edition, the LHJH pop music group, and she’s in the Dallas Theater Center’s Teen Company Ensemble.
Kelsey, shown on the left in this photo, will be playing Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. In the story, Mary is dubbed a difficult child and sent away to live with her uncle after the death of her parents. Stuck in gloomy Misselthwaite Manor, Mary finds that her uncle is never home, but she bonds with his young son Colin, an apparent incurable invalid. When Mary discovers a strange walled garden, locked up for years, Mary taps into its magic to help restore Colin to health and reunite him with his father.
Performances are set for Sunday, December 27 to Wednesday, December 30 in the small theater at the Granville Arts Center, 300 North 5th Street in downtown Garland (straight east on Forest Lane from LH). Tickets are $10 for matinees and $12 for evening performances, with discounts available for students and persons over 59.
The show is presented by GCT’s Children on Stage and includes more than 20 youth in the cast, ages 8 to 18. Proud mom, Lynda Buckley, encourages LH theater-goers to meet-and-greet Kelsey and the rest of the cast after the show.
