Little Women (musical) Little Women (musical) 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 classic 1869 semi-autobiographical 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. A workshop production
Little Women (2019 film) film is set to be released on December 25, 2019. Little Women (2019 film) Little Women is an upcoming drama film written and directed by Greta Gerwig. It is the eighth adaptation of the 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Chris Cooper and Meryl Streep. The film is scheduled to be released on December 25, 2019, by Columbia Pictures. "Little Women" explores the lives of sisters in 1860s Massachusetts. According to its producer, the new adaptation focuses