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Critic Clinton: A New York Times ad for the play “My Secret Garden” contains an eye-catching blurb from a recent theatergoer: “ ‘Simply Magical!’--Hillary Clinton.” A spokesman for the show, Adrian Bryan-Brown, said Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea (along with Tipper Gore and her three daughters), caught a matinee during the Democratic convention in New York. Clinton gave her review during a backstage chat with the cast. Bryan-Brown recalled that when Clinton was asked whether her words of praise could be cited, she replied: “I’d love to see my name in lights.” A touring version of the Broadway show is playing at the Shubert Theatre in Century City.