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Monday, April 21, 2014

BELOVED CLASSIC SET TO MUSIC ONSTAGE @ THE STROLLERS IN MAPLEWOOD

Little Women—The Musical
Book by Allan Knee
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Adapted from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

WHEN: May 2 – 17; Fridays and Saturdays, 8 PM; Sundays, 2 PM
WHERE:
The Strollers @ The Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts, 10 Durand Road, Maplewood
TICKETS: $20; $16 seniors & students

Little Women, based on Louisa May Alcott's classic 1869 semi-autobiographical novel, focuses on the four March sisters—brassy, tomboy-like, aspiring writer Jo; romantic Meg; pretentious Amy; and kind-hearted Beth—and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts while the family patriarch is away serving as a Union Army chaplain during the Civil War.

Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several re-creations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio. It is a heartfelt story about the importance of family and how life and love changes you. It is a family-friendly musical appropriate for ages 8 and up.

Starring
Jo - Madison Houck
Meg - Crystal Bennett
Beth - Melissa Cox
Amy - Sarah Mason
Marmee - Susan Leone
Laurie - Brandon Arias
Aunt March - Judi Gajary
Mr. Laurence - Walter Zimmerman
Professor Bhaer - Eric Parkin
Mr. John Brooke - Thomas Courtright
Mrs. Kirk - Fran Shultz