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
Disappearance of the Al-Suwaidi sisters traditions and law". On May 15, 2015, all three Suwaidi sisters were reportedly released and were dropped off at their family home. Said Boumedouha, Amnesty's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa region, stated that it was unclear what "pressures" the women may have endured during their detention, or if they had ever been charged for a crime. Disappearance of the Al-Suwaidi sisters In February 2015, three sisters from the United Arab Emirates, Asma, Mariam, and Alyaziyah Khalifa al-Suwaidi, disappeared after their arrest by Emirati authorities for using social networking site Twitter. The three women are thought to