Musical–Little House on the Prairie
Kara Lindsay Takes Leave of Absence from “Little House”
The stage Laura is leaving the “Little House” musical for a few weeks and her understudy will take over.
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A Word from Willie
“They can’t ride on my velocipede!”
The phrase springs into my head upon the mere mention of the name Willie Oleson.
Willie is a fun character, I think. Like the character of Nellie, Willie in the book series is a composite of more than one real boy. (Although the Plum Creek Willie was surely based on Willie
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Seven Minutes of the Musical!
Multiple scenes of the Little House musical — on video!
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Melissa Gilbert on the Today Show
The Today Show had a nice segment on Little House on the Prairie: the Musical. Watch it here:
Today Show Interview with Melissa Gilbert
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All of De Smet United In New Web Site Venture
De Smet’s attractions support one another in a joint web site promoting the town … precisely what every Laura fan would love to see.
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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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Kara and Kate: The New Laura and Nellie
Do you ever feel like your phone lines are tapped?
The other day, Sandra and I were discussing the upcoming interview of Kara Lindsay and Kevin Massey for The Homesteader, and I commented that in all of the stories I’ve seen in the media on Little House on the Prairie: The Musical, only Melissa Gilbert gets
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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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