Victorian Premiere
Production Team:
Director : Noel Browne
Musical Director: Ben Hudson
Assistant Director: Wayne Robinson
Choreographer: Nathan Firmin
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Current Production
Little Women
May, 2010
| Friday |
7 May |
8pm (gala) |
| Saturday |
8 May |
8pm |
| Thursday |
13 May |
8pm |
| Friday |
14 May |
8pm |
| Saturday. |
15 May |
2pm |
| Saturday |
15 May |
8pm |
| Sunday |
16 May |
2pm |
| Thursday |
20 May |
8pm |
| Friday |
21 May |
8pm |
| Saturday |
22 May |
2pm |
| Saturday |
22 May |
8pm |
Ticket Prices:
Adult: $35
Concession: $30
Child: $28
Group 10+: $28
Gala : extra $8
**All tickets incur a $1 processing fee per ticket**
Little Women Cast List
JO - Jacqui Levitas
MEG - Rachael Conway
AMY - Georgie Lewis
BETH - Elyse McInerney
MARMEE - Natasha Bassett
AUNT MARCH - Jennie Kellaway
LAURIE - Tyler Hess
MR BROOKE - Brad Fisher
PROFESSOR BACHR - Dean Pearcey
BRAXTON - Daniel Hunt
MR LAURENCE - Barry Baker
KNIGHT - Kevin Holman
RODRIGO 2 - Susannah Gidley
MRS. KIRK - Jayne Keller
CLARISSA - Rebecca Rashleigh
TROLL - Kay Roberts
HAG - Lindy Yeates
Ensemble
Charles Grounds
John Filonzi
Rebecca Perry
Penny Campbell
Kellie-Ann Kimber
Song list
Act I
* Overture
* An Operatic Tragedy- Jo, Clarissa, Braxton, Rodrigo
* Better- Jo
* Our Finest Dreams- Jo, Beth, Amy, and Meg
* Here Alone- Marmee
* Could You?- Aunt March and Jo
* I'd Be Delighted- Marmee, Meg, Beth, and Jo
* Take a Chance on Me- Laurie
* Off to Massachusetts- Beth and Mr. Lawrence
* Five Forever- Jo, Beth, Meg, Amy, and Laurie
* More Than I Am- Mr. Brooke and Meg
* Astonishing- Jo
Act II
* The Weekly Volcano Press- Jo, Clarissa, Braxton, Rodrigo, Hag,Troll, Knight, Rodrigo 2, and Company
* How I Am- Professor Bhaer
* Some Things Are Meant to Be- Beth and Jo
* The Most Amazing Thing- Amy and Laurie
* Days of Plenty- Marmee
* The Fire Within Me- Jo
* Small Umbrella in the Rain- Jo and Professor Bhaer
* Sometimes When You Dream (Reprise)- Jo
Plot Summary
Act I
Jo March, a 19-year-old woman from Concord, Massachusetts, moves to New York City in 1866 to take work as a governess, though her real dream is to write thrillers. She is angry when Professor Bhaer, one of the other boarders in her boarding house to whom she reads her stories ("Operatic Tragedy"), thinks they are beneath her. Her response brings to life her memories ("Better").
In flashback, Jo returns to various moments in her youth, beginning three years earlier in the attic of her family home where she and her sisters prepare for a public performance of a Christmas melodrama she has written ("Our Finest Dreams"). Marmee enters with a letter from their father, an Army chaplain in the Civil War. As Marmee writes a response, she reflects on how difficult it is to pretend in her letters that all is well when she feels very much alone ("Here Alone").
At this point of her life, Jo's goal is to go to Europe with her Aunt March, for whom she works, but Aunt March will only take her if she becomes more lady-like ("Could You?"). Jo is anxious about her abilities to do so, but is convinced by her family to try at a St. Valentine's Day Ball. There, Jo befriends her new acquaintance, neighbor Laurie, while Meg dances with his tutor, Mr. John Brooke. Their relationships are complicated by the fact that Laurie would secretly like to be more than just friends with Jo ("Take A Chance on Me"), while his grandfather, Mr. Laurence, wants no connection between Laurie and the Marches at all until he is won over by Jo's younger sister Beth ("Off to Massachusetts"). Jo's feelings for Laurie are more familial than romantic, a fact she pronounces after Laurie saves Amy from a fall through the ice ("Five Forever").
But Jo's life goes into crisis after Mr. March's illness calls Marmee away. Aunt March refuses the trip to Europe after Jo cuts her hair, which she has sold to help raise money to get Marmee to Washington. She loses Meg to Meg's engagement to John Brooke ("More Than I Am") and Laurie to her own refusal to become engaged. Realizing that her life is not going to be as she had imagined, she decides to seek out a new path where she can be ("Astonishing!")
Act II
Back in the present, Jo has cause to celebrate with Professor Bhaer and her employer, Mrs. Kirk, as she has made her first sale as an author ("The Weekly Volcano Press"), but word of Beth's Scarlet Fever calls her away. The Professor acknowledges to himself that he has fallen in love with Jo ("How I Am"), while Beth says goodbye to Jo ("Some Things Are Meant To Be"). Thereafter, youngest sister Amy and Laurie come to share the news of their pending marriage ("The Most Amazing Thing"). Marmee encourages Jo to carry on in spite of her grief over Beth's death ("Days of Plenty"), and Jo comes to understand that her memories of her sisters and family are themselves astonishing ("Fire Within Me"), inspiring her to write Little Women.
Professor Bhaer comes to Concord on the day that Amy and Laurie are to be married. He professes his feelings to Jo ("Small Umbrella in the Rain"), and Jo accepts his offer of marriage. He then tells her that he has shown the manuscript of the novel Little Women, which she had sent to him, to The Weekly Volcano Press, which wants to publish it. Jo declares her happiness ("Sometimes When You Dream")
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