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 (1949 film) Movies presented "Little Women" on October 7, 2015 in commemoration of what would have been June Allyson's 98th birthday. Shown before "Little Women" was 1946's "The Secret Heart", 1945's "The Sailor Takes a Wife", 1946's "Two Sisters from Boston", 1947's "Good News", and 1948's "The Bride Goes Wild". The remaining films were 1950's "The Reformer and the Redhead" and 1951's "Too Young to Kiss". Little Women (1949 film) Little Women is a 1949 American feature film with script and music taken directly from the earlier 1933 Hepburn version. Based on Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name, it was