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THEATER REVIEW; Schulman's 'Little Women' is off-key; Unmemorable songs bring action to halt
From: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
Date: 20060112
Author:Iris Fanger
You have to pin a Purple Heart for courage on the creators of "Little Women - The Broadway Musical," that's stopped in Boston at The Opera House for two weeks on its first national tour.
The task of adapting Louisa May Alcott's beloved family chronicle about the life passage of four sisters from their home in Concord, Mass., out to the great wide world is fraught with danger because of the novel's resonance for those who read it. I was one of them, devouring the book year after year as I grew from childhood to adolescence. The images I carry in my mind's eye are far more powerful than those ...
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