The
Broadway
musical
version
of
Louisa
May
Alcott’s
“Little
Women”
will
premier
at the
Centre
for
Performing
and
Visual
Arts on
Lower
Fayetteville
road on
Thursday,
August
9,
through
Saturday,
August
11.
Performances
are
Thursday,
Friday
and
Saturday,
at 7
p.m.
Tickets
are $12,
$10 for
seniors
and
students,
and are
on sale
at the
Centre
box
office.
Call
770-254-2787
(254-ARTS)
for more
information.
The last
of this
summer’s
STAR
performances,
the
Broadway
version
of
“Little
Women”
is based
on
Alcott’s
1868
novel,
with
music by
Jason
Howland
and
lyrics
by Mindi
Dickstein.
The
script,
by Allan
Knee,
follows
Alcott’s
familiar
Civil
War-era
story of
The
March
family.
Father
March is
away
with the
Union
army
while
sisters
Meg, Jo,
Amy and
Beth
keep in
high
spirits
with
their
mother (Marmee).
Their
friendly
gift of
a
Christmas
holiday
breakfast
to a
neighboring
family
is an
act of
generosity
rewarded
with
wealthy
Mr.
Laurence's
gift of
a
surprise
Christmas
feast.
Despite
their
efforts
to be
good,
the
girls
show
faults:
the
pretty
Meg
becomes
discontented
with the
children
she
teaches;
boyish
Jo loses
her
temper
regularly;
while
the
schoolgirl
Amy is
inclined
towards
affectation.
Gentle-natured
Beth
keeps
the
house in
order.
After
happy
times
winning
over the
Laurences,
dark
times
arrive
as
Marmee
finds
out
about
her
husband's
illness.
Worse is
to come
as Beth
contracts
scarlet
fever
after
caring
for a
sick
neighbor.
The
story
follows
the
challenges
and
progress
of the
sisters
into
young
womanhood
with the
additional
strains
of
romance,
Beth's
illness,
the
pressures
of
marriage
and the
outside
world.
The
musical
is a
part of
the STAR
(Superintendent’s
Theatre
Arts
Resource)
Project,
a summer
theatre
arts
workshop
for
Coweta
students.
It is
the
third
STAR
performance
this
summer,
following
“Into
the
Woods”
and “Our
Town”
earlier
in June.
The
Centre’s
STAR
cast
includes
Brandon
Copeland
(Professor
Bhaer),
Courtney
Bailey
(Jo),
Meagan
Upchurch
(Amy),
Mary
Anna
Hendley
(Meg),
Meagan
Johnson
(Beth),
Cari
Hipp (Marmee),
Jeremiah
Hobbs
(Laurie),
Meagan
Hubbell
(Aunt
March),
Andrew
Henson
(John
Brooke),
Meagan
Hubbell
(Mrs.
Kirk),
Allison
Rohan
(Clarissa),
Andrew
Henson
(Braxton),
Jeremiah
Hobbs
(Rodrigo),
and
Elizabeth
Murphy
(The
Hag, The
Troll,
The
Knight).
The
Musical
Director
for the
Centre
production
of
“Little
Women”
is Dr.
Lynn
Schenbeck,
choreographry
is by
Erin
Exner,
and set
and
technical
direction
is by
John
Molettierre
The
Broadway
musical
version
of
Little
Women
will be
performed
at the
Centre
for
Performing
and
Visual
Arts,
this
Thursday
through
Saturday,
August 2
through
4, at 7
p.m.
Starring
in the
STAR
production
above,
are
Louisa
May
Alcott’s
March
sisters
are
(top,
left) Jo
(Courtney
Bailey),
(right)
Meg
(Mary
Anna
Hendley),
(lower
left)
Amy
(Meagan
Upchurch),
and Beth
(Meagan
Johnson).
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