You are cordially invited to enter the Victorian Age of Literature, courtesy of Louisa May Alcott and the Old Stone Playhouse from Friday, August 8 to Sunday, August 10. The Old Stone Congregational Church at 251 Main Street in East Haven will be festively attired, air conditioned, with cabaret seating for a meal, wheelchair accessible, with ample parking, perfect to entertain you and your family.
The heartbreak and hope of the Civil War years will be displayed with laughter and tears by Jo Marsh, the writer of the family, who has been advised by her publishers to write about what she knows and to include the stories of her sisters Beth, Meg, and Amy to add realism and romance.
In "Little Women the Musical,” with book by Allen Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music by Jason Howland, you will find a story based on Alcott’s 1868-69 semi-autobiographical two-volume novel. The play revolves around the traditional minded Meg, the hope-to-be-successful novelist Jo, the shy and retiring Beth and the romantically inclined Amy and their home in Concord, Massassachusetts that includes their beloved mother Marmee and reflects the sad absence of their father who is serving as a chaplain in the Union Army.
Jo weaves vignettes about her melodramatic sisters into the musical telling of her publishing rejection letters, her original play “An Operatic Tragedy” she wishes to produce for Christmas joy, the difficulties Marnee has running the house in wartime, a proposed trip to Europe with Aunt March (Michelle Rocheford Johnston), romantic entanglements for Laurie (Jack Vann) and his tutor Mr. Brooke (Luke Soja) with March sisters, situations with Mr. Laurence (George McTyre), a skating race and a dance ball, Beth's tragic death and a new marriage proposal, all set to music.
WISP (Wagner Iovanna Studio Performances) will star McKensie Doebrick as Amy, Denise Wray as Meg, Heather Bazinet as Marmee, Allison Bradshaw as Jo and Lexi Kinniburgh as Beth. Producer Karen Wagner-Iovanna and director Martin Scott Marchitto are responsible for this dramatic family production stuffed with dreams, love, kindness, hope and promise for the future.
With equal friction and foolishness and fondness, the sisters exhibit a whole plethora of emotions as they grow up in a difficult time for our country, without a father near at hand or with a mother unsure of how to react to the problems of the day.
Performances are Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.. Come watch how a quartet of siblings find their voices and proclaim to the world that they are worthy of dreams coming true, finding the loves of their life and holding out for a much desired promise for tomorrow.
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