Subject: OT: Anyone know both of these musicals?
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Posted on: 2009-01-14 01:24:00 UTC

Specifically, Little Women: The Musical and Little Women: A Little Musical?

The former is somewhat older and quite a lot better known, having run on Broadway, but it is the latter of which I'd like to speak.

Three years ago tonight, due to a class I was taking at Utah State University, I was assigned to see and amateur-review a local community theater production. So impressed was I that on the way out I bought a copy of the soundtrack. I was a little disappointed, for reasons I'll get to in a moment.

This "Little Musical" covers about half of the book; I don't remember exactly, but it ends sometime between Beth's funeral and Jo's (re)departure for New York. (Certain events were changed or put in different orders; Jo never went to New York the first time in this version.) As I discovered when I encountered the Broadway musical, many of the songs are at the same points of the story. But one song, one I really liked, is missing from the soundtrack. It is the equivalent to "Take a Chance on Me"; Laurie is telling Jo that he thinks Meg has fallen in love with his tutor, and she retorts that "Love Doesn't Happen That Way". It's a great, funny song, and is reprised when Laurie proposes at Beth's funeral. But it doesn't appear even once on my soundtrack, so I'm wondering if there's some way I could get ahold of a (legitimate) recording thereof.

The website offers a perusal score, which would presumably include it but would have no sound; it also offers the original soundtrack recording, probably the one I have, and a premier DVD. I don't really want to spend fifty dollars on a DVD of totally unknown quality, especially when I don't know whether it's cut to remove the very part I want. Does anyone have knowledge of that?

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