A Walk In The Garden

It’s the final episode of A Walk In The Garden and that can only mean one thing: the broadcast of the entire audio presentation of Botanic Garden The Musical! You’ve heard all of the episodes that have taken you through the entire process of creating the show, now you can enjoy the final results and see how all of the collaborators worked together to make this timeless musical experience.

Composer Lindsay Jones explores the final three songs of Botanic Garden The Musical and finds the common thread with everyone else on the creative team as the songs weave their way through loss and acceptance. “A Dead Man Plays Tennis” gives a meditation on how to face death, “The Doorbell Rings” returns to show us that life will never wait til you’re ready, and finally the heartfelt ballad “Open...

Composer Lindsay Jones explores his dream of being a rock star and how it ultimately would help him in (and keep him from) finding the rock’n’roll fantasy song of “Spark” in Botanic Garden The Musical. But what does Spark even mean? The actors creative team debates the word and everything that it could be, before they finally rock it out and find it for themselves. Then, to top it off, Lindsay fac...

Composer Lindsay Jones goes deep into the songs behind a long-term relationship, long after the love songs have run out. First, there’s the fine line between partnership and competition with “It’s Always My Turn”, then there’s the loopy oompah waltz of “The Doorbell Rings”, and finally the song about the secrets we keep from the people we love called “The Silent Treatment”. The mystery of adapting...

Todd Logan invites Lindsay Jones to help adapt Todd’s play Botanic Garden into a musical and almost immediately Lindsay realizes he has no idea how to write a musical. Lindsay writes the perfect opening song which everyone loves until they all realize that perhaps it’s not the perfect opening song. Inspired by Stephen Sondheim’s struggle to write “Comedy Tonight”, Lindsay creates “Why Am I Here” w...

Composer Lindsay Jones grapples with the fact that it’s been a very long time since the first production of Todd Logan’s play Botanic Garden, and realizes that perhaps he has a lot more in common with these characters than he thought. He commits to writing songs for Botanic Garden The Musical that will draw upon his own journey as well as the play. We hear the story behind Have You Heard, and how...

Join Tony-nominated composer Lindsay Jones as your guide through the 17 year long journey to turn Todd Logan’s successful play BOTANIC GARDEN into a musical. You’ll learn the step-by-step process of how the songs were created and hear from the people who made it happen: playwright/collaborator Todd Logan, director Ann Filmer, all of the actors from multiple productions and more. Plus, as the final...