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GETTING TO KNOW THE `LITTLE WOMEN' WOMAN LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S LIFE STORY HELPED SHAPE THE MUSICAL BASED ON HER NOVEL

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20060108
Author:Catherine Foster, Globe Staff

For Jason Howland, composer of "Little Women: The Broadway Musical," a visit to Orchard House in Concord, where Louisa May Alcott penned her classic novel, made the story come alive in a new way.

"It was a wonderful day," he says of the April visit he made with others working on the musical. "They closed the house to the public and let the creative team take clothes out of the closet and get the feel of what it was like."

That tangible evidence that Alcott was a real woman, living in a real house not far from Boston, is part of what helped the creative team bring the novel to the stage. So did ...

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