Theatre News and Reviews

“Little Women,” the durable Louisa May Alcott title that has inspired countless movie, play and musical versions, emerges once again April 21 with a Manhattan public presentation of Alison Hubbard, Kim Oler and Sean Hartley’s musical take on the property.

The show to be heard in The York Theatre Company’s Spring Developmental Reading Series 3 PM April 21 represents a revised version of the Oler-Hubbard score that won the Richard Rodgers Development Award when it was linked to a libretto by Allan Knee. That earlier show was being developed for Broadway, but its producers chose to keep Knee’s book and bring on another songwriting team, resulting in the current Broadway run of Little Women, the Musical starring Sutton Foster as Jo — a powerhouse performance that is expected to snag a Tony Award nomination.

(more…)

This entry was posted on Saturday, April 16th, 2005 at 10:27 am and is filed under Theatre. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.