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'Little Women': Girls Gone Mild

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060630
Author:Peter Marks - Washington Post Staff Writer

Somewhere up there, perched in her celestial rocking chair, Louisa May Alcott is gazing down on the touring musical adaptation of her beloved "Little Women" -- and wondering when the darn thing is going to get her in the gut.

Eventually, though, she'll weary of waiting, sort through her DVDs and switch to "Terms of Endearment."

Patrons in the Kennedy Center Opera House have no such option. We maintain a vigil for nearly three hours, in the vain expectation that this innocuous version will find its emotional footing in the almost reflexively heart-melting story of Beth's death, Marmee's ...

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