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Contemporary Lessons from The Long Winter
Lizzie Skurnick, author of the recently released Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, used to write a column on Jezebel dissecting the young-adult novels we read as kids–and likely reread as adults. (Her book is based on these columns, and Farmer Boy is the Little House book that’s up for the reread
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Twitter Rhymes
If you’ve been following Rose Wilder Lane and Half Pint Ingalls on Twitter, you’ve already seen this exchange — my favorite Twitter couplet ever, because it rhymes.
@HalfPintIngalls: Almanzo likes big bustles; he cannot lie.
@RoseWilderLane: As the young people say, Mama Bess, TMI.
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Interview With Steve Blanchard
Here’s a radio interview with Steve “Pa Ingalls” Blanchard, who’s traveling with the musical right now, courtesy of the musical’s Twitter feed.
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Kevin and Kara Again In the Homesteader
Are you a Homesteader subscriber? I sure hope so! We just got confirmation that the next issue will contain a joint interview with Kevin Massey and Kara Lindsay, current stars of the Little House on the Prairie musical that’s making the rounds across the country. (Right now it’s in Nashville. Here’s where it’ll be for
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Laura the Teacher (on TV)
I like to leave my DVR set to record episodes of Little House on the Prairie — five at a time — and from time to time I check to see which ones it’s got loaded. Today I’m glad I did. The DVR contains what is probably my favorite Little House episode ever: Sweet Sixteen.
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More Notes on the Play (And More Spoilers)
I’ve done some googling to remind myself more of the play, since I didn’t take notes during the performance. This document (what a find!) provided me with a few additional notes:
Almanzo and Cap hunt the wheat onstage during the Long Winter. Refresh my memory — did they do that in the earlier version?
It’s during the
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Play Spoilers! If You Don't Want to Know, Don't Read.
I may be a writer, but I’m not a review writer. I’d much rather sit back and read the music reviews and book reviews of my colleagues who craft them so much better than I ever could. And I hate the idea of writing something that will be mediocre at best. But for my Little
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Interviews With The Cast on YouTube
My review is upcoming, but in the meantime, check out this three-minute segment of interviews with Kara Lindsay (Laura), Steve Blanchard (Pa), and Melissa Gilbert (Ma), as well as the director, Francesca Zambello.
I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the play, and I’m so glad I made the trip. I’d say I enjoyed it more
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Little Musical In New Jersey
Tomorrow morning, I get on a train. Destination: New Jersey. To quote Bull Durham, I’m goin’ to the show.
Well, not that show. The “Little House” show. At the Paper Mill Playhouse. I’ve done a little digging–enough to re-familiarize myself with the show since I saw it almost exactly a year ago in Minneapolis, but not
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Close Your Eyes, Mary!
I’ve already outed myself as someone who’s not necessarily a TV show expert. And I do admit, at times I can be so detail-oriented on the one hand, and so completely oblivious on the other — often at the same time.
But did this really go right by me?
I was investigating a DVD collection I have
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