Little Women, 2005

The run closed May 22, 2005

Opened

January 23, 2005

Closed

May 22, 2005

Performances

137

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

August Wilson Theatre

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 126th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Little Women 4 more that season

1913	Playhouse Theatre Original · Jessie Bonstelle
1931	Playhouse Theatre Revival · William A. Brady, Jr.	17 perf.
1945	City Center Revival	16 perf.
2021	London Transfer

Who was in it10 named

Janet Carroll
Danny Gurwin
Amy Mcalexander
Robert Stattel
Jim Weitzer

5 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Susan H. Schulman

Choreographer

Michael Lichtefeld

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Little Women, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Little Women is a musical with a book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland. Based on Louisa May Alcott's 1868–69 semi-autobiographical two-volume novel, it focuses on the four March sisters— traditional Meg, wild, aspiring writer Jo, timid Beth and romantic Amy,— and their beloved Marmee, at home in Concord, Massachusetts, while their father is away serving as a Union Army chaplain during the Civil War. Intercut with the vignettes in which their lives unfold are several recreations of the melodramatic short stories Jo writes in her attic studio.

• 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. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 359
• The company performed Little Women. Cornell played Jo, a leading role. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 137
• 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. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 261
• 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. The Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Hardcover 2014 Rowman Lit, p. 361
• 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… The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 172

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

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 1 recordings of Little Women document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.