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Little Women

Shows · Little Women

During the Civil War, the four March sisters - spirited aspiring writer Jo, gentle Meg, shy Beth, and artistic Amy - grow up under the loving guidance of their mother Marmee while their father is away at war. Jo struggles between her fierce independence and desire for literary success and the pull of family and romantic love, navigating the transition from girlhood to womanhood.

Opened
2005
Performances
137
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Jason HowlandLyrics: Mindi DicksteinBook: Allan Knee

Productions4 on Broadway

1913 Playhouse Theatre Original. March 10, 1913 · Jessie Bonstelle · predates this show
1931 Playhouse Theatre Revival. December 7, 1931 · William A. Brady, Jr. · predates this show 17 performances
1945 City Center Revival. December 23, 1945 · predates this show 16 performances
2005 Virginia Theatre Revival. January 23, 2005 · Susan H. Schulman 137 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 3 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Little Women matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.

In the literature13 passages

To add to the madness, the small-towners sported the names of characters from Little Women , and, in a special homage to Logan, the homey little small-town setting suddenly found itself awash in mobs of bathing-suited beauties and scantily clad muscle men. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p359

The company performed Little Women. Cornell played Jo, a leading role. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p137

He wrote a television musical version of Little Women, followed by the quick flop (with a sometimes fine score) Kwamina, starring then-wife Sally Ann Howes. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p261

To add to the madness, the small-towners sported the names of characters from Little Women, and, in a special homage to Logan, the homey little small-town setting suddenly found itself awash in mobs of bathing-suited beauties and scantily clad muscle men. book:the-complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-hardcover-2014-rowman-lit#p361

among the musicals interested in looking at boys’ lives were: Big (1996), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001), a 2003 revival of Big River, Tarzan (2006), Billy Elliot (2008), and Newsies (2012). And from there a subgenre of musicals aimed mostly at young girls and teenage girls opened: Jane Eyre (2000), Hair-spray (20… book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p172

Little Women: The Musical 314, 358 book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p507

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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