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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20041014
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Byline: FIONA MOUNTFORD
Little Women
Duchess
THE last time this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's enduringly popular 1868 novel appeared was Christmas 2002, at the Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells. It provided the perfect festive family alternative to pantomime. The fear, thus, was that this West End revival had shot its bolt with a mid-October start date.
The uncertain opening minutes give rise to the notion that the clean-living March sisters, will not make it through to pick up the December dollars this time.
Yet gradually Andrew Loudon's production ...
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