We watch the young sisters change and grow, each with distinct personalities that at times chafe against one another, but ultimately their unbreakable sisterly bond means that love abounds.
The four impoverished March sisters live with their mother – lovingly nicknamed Marmee – in Massachusetts as their father serves as chaplain for the Union Army in the American Civil War. If you don’t know it intimately, you probably know it vaguely through cultural osmosis. There is no doubt that protagonist Jo (played by Lydia White) is bursting with ideas and dreams of becoming a famous writer and travelling the world, no mean feat for a woman in 1868, but at multiple points in the musical the songs come as a ponderous afterthought, tagged onto the dramatic action that has already been acted out.Īnd so to the story. If you can’t sing it, you dance it’ rarely applies to this production.
However, that well-known phrase in musical theatre, ‘If you can’t say it, you sing it. Of course, you can have musical theatre that is quiet, warm, with low stakes, but is undeniably charming. If you haven’t read the book, and you haven’t seen the film adaptations (both the recent 2019 version with Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet, or the 1994 version starring Winona Ryder) you might wonder why this intimate story has been adapted as a piece of musical theatre. If you love the 1868 story by Louisa May Alcott then seeing the four March sisters live and breathe before your very eyes could be a joy. Little Women the Musical is almost exactly what you would expect when hearing the title.
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