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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20060216
Author:Preston, Rohan

Byline: Rohan Preston; Staff Writer

Singer Maureen McGovern gets above-the-title billing for the Broadway musical "Little Women," adapted from Louisa May Alcott's 19th-century novel by composer Jason Howland, book-writer Allan Knee and librettist Mindi Dickstein.

But if you were to judge only by felicitous talent, Kate Fisher is the real star of the show that opened Valentine's Day at the Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis.

Fisher, who plays Jo, one of the March daughters coming of age in New England while their father is off in the Civil War, is a thoroughly beautiful ...

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