Tony Award® winner and five-time Tony Award® nominee Laura Benanti will play Marmee March and Olivier nominated West End and Broadway star Julian Ovenden, Father, in a new musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s iconic coming-of-age novel Little Women.
Jo – The Little Women Musical, with music by Dan Redfeld, book and lyrics by Christina Harding and John Gabriel Koladziej, will get its world premiere with a Studio Album to be recorded in January at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios featuring a mix of Broadway, West End and international stars and a 29-piece orchestra, produced by five-time Grammy nominee and three-time Emmy winner Nigel Wright and Dan Redfeld.
The recording session will be followed by the release of several tracks and videos, the album and the full show will be presented in semi-staged concert on the West End, directed by JoAnn M. Hunter (20 Broadway shows to her credit as a Choreographer including Bad Cinderella and School of Rock, Associate Choreographer and Performer. Most recently Director of SuperYou a new Rock Musical at Curve, Leicester and Choreographer of the upcoming Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat UK tour starring Donny Osmond).
Jo – The Little Women Musical studio album will be released under Grammy® winning record label Center Stage Records.
The date, theatre and ticket onsale for the West End concert will be announced in the coming weeks.
