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GracieGarland
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bullet Topic: Little Women
    Posted: 8/25/10 at 10:53pm
There are so many versions of Little Women out there...which are considered to be the best? Need your in-put pronto:) 
Thank you in advance for your help.
 
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bullet Posted: 8/29/10 at 3:13pm
Gracie,
We need a bit of qualification to your question: best for what?
It depends on what you want from an adaptation - particularly in terms of length (or brevity) and cast size.
For example, Gerald P. Murphy's adaptation is great if you want a 30 minute show, but if you wish it to fill the whole evening, it's totally inadequate!
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bullet Posted: 9/02/10 at 11:03am
We did "Little Women - The Broadway Musical" by Knee, Dickstein, and Howland at our high school. It's a great show. You need 1 extremely strong female voice plus 5 very good female voices and 4 male solo quality voices. It is moving, funny, romantic, and shows a strong female character. It's a little long as written ... probably 2:30 plus a 15 minute intermission. It had a fairly short run on Broadway but I think Sutton Foster was nominated for a Tony as Jo. Patrons may have found it a little "choppy" but I love it.
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bullet Posted: 11/26/10 at 5:35am
Not sure if it's best, but take a look at http://www.plays4theatre.com/bookdetails.php?pr=305
I demand a second opinion
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bullet Posted: 1/06/11 at 12:14am
I have to agree with Lazy Bee about the Murphy adaption of Little Woman.  It's an excellent show.
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