Little Women: The Broadway Musical

Book by Allan Knee
Music by Jason Howland
Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein
Based on the Novel by Louisa May Alcott
LITTLE WOMEN was presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (Winter 2026 at 92NY)

Reimagining a beloved Broadway musical through movement, ensemble storytelling, and the inner lives of the March sisters.

Our production of Little Women: The Broadway Musical explored how movement can deepen a familiar story while allowing its text and music to remain at the center.

Rather than treating choreography as something that appeared only during large musical production numbers, we created a physical language that moved throughout the entire production. Each March sister was paired with a counterpart in the ensemble- a performer who expressed that sister’s inner life entirely through movement.

These counterparts did not replace the characters or explain what the audience was already seeing. Instead, they made visible what could not always be spoken: memory, longing, fear, ambition, grief, and the complicated bonds between sisters.

This approach gave the production a distinct identity while protecting what makes the musical powerful: its language, its score, its characters, and its emotional honesty.

Movement as an Unspoken Narrative

Each sister’s movement counterpart developed a vocabulary shaped by her character.

Jo’s physical world held urgency, imagination, and a constant drive toward something beyond the limits placed around her. Meg’s movement carried the tension between independence, responsibility, and the life she hoped to build. Beth’s counterpart embodied attentiveness, stillness, and the quiet ways one person can hold a family together. Amy’s physical language revealed ambition, transformation, and her desire to be seen as more than the youngest sister.

At times, the counterparts moved beside the sisters. At other moments, they echoed, anticipated, interrupted, or carried what the characters could not yet express. Together, they created a second narrative that lived alongside the spoken and sung story.