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'Women': Little room for improvement.(ARTS & CULTURE)(RAINBOW REVIEW: THEATER)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20060722
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Byline: Caroline Duffy, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

By Caroline Duffy, age 16, Holton-Arms School, Bethesda

"Little Women," the musical adaptation of the beloved Louisa May Alcott book, is the story of the four March sisters growing up in Concord, Mass., during the Civil War. It is playing in the Opera House at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through tomorrow.

While their father is away at war, the girls and their mother struggle to make ends meet. The story, told from the perspective of Jo March (Kate Fisher), the second daughter, takes us to her attic ...

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