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LITTLE WOMEN: THE MUSICAL

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20050202
Author:Feingold, Michael

LITTLE WOMEN: THE MUSICAL

By Allan Knee, Jason Rowland, and Mindi Dickstein

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Little Women as a Broadway musical? Louisa May Alcott has indeed come a long way, baby

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In its century-long history on stage and screen, Louisa May Alcott's beloved 1869 novel Little Women has been transmogrified into practically everything except a Broadway musical: at least two nonmusical plays, at least six movies, four TV series, no less than two Japanese anime series (I kid you not, look up Wakakusa Monogatari on IMDB), a touring operetta, a TV ...

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