By Journal Staff Report ALTO, N.M. -- The Spencer Theater's ninemonth 2008-09 winter season features 13 nationally touring shows -- eight of which are major musical productions. Ticket orders are being accepted now.

By Candy Williams A touching children's story first published a century ago is retold on the stage in Flatwoods Productions' musical version of "The Secret Garden." Based on the book written by France Hodgson Burnett, the musical set in 1906 is about a young English girl, Mary Lennox (played by Lexie Rohlf of Brownsville), who loses her parents in India to cholera and goes to live with an uncle she never has met in England.

By LOUISE GOSMA By Louise Gosma Virginia Beach, retired, 76 In the summer of 2001, when I was still living in the Harrisburg, Pa., area, I attended a summer dinner/theater production of "Love Letters" starring Sally Struthers.

By Mark Lowry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Jan.

Sally Struthers felt like she'd won an award when she was offered a role in a new cable television movie about small-town values. "I went crazy," she said, citing family values, love and the struggle between good and evil as her favorite themes.