If you read Little Women when you were a girl -and yes, you're definitely a girl if you did -you'll get why showbiz has long wanted to get its mitts on Louisa May Alcott's much-loved 1868 novel about the March sisters of Concord, Mass.
Devoted single parent, trying circumstances (genteel poverty, the Civil War), sisterly bonding and friction, coming-of-age romance, youthful dreams, a good-die-young death scene. . C'mon, the showbiz possibilities are, to borrow a song from Marmee, "days of plenty."
The version of Little Women now onstage in a deluxe Citadel production may not have been a success on Broadway, where it ran, briefly, in 2005. But it's Broadway through and through.
The creators -Allan Knee (book), Mindi Dickstein (lyrics), Jason Howland (music) -wrangle the material into the time-honoured configuration by framing it as a star is born. And Bob Baker's production even has the star to prove it, in the charismatic person of Shannon Taylor as Jo.
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