BY ISABELLA BEELER

This past weekend Truman High School presented Little Women. Little Women is a musical about the four March sisters. The oldest Meg, Jo, Beth, and the youngest Amy. It shows them growing up with ups and downs along the way. Jo is a struggling writer. They eventually go their separate ways, but come together again when Beth gets an illness. Truman did an excellent job portraying this story.

The cast of the school musical was Avery Morton as Jo, Rebekah Dorland as Meg, Jayla Dodd as Amy Ivy Brillhart as Marmee, Briana Olvera as Beth, Dominic Pressley as Laurie, Brandon Coffman as John Brooke, Isaac Kenyon as Mr. Laurence, Eleanor Valentine as Aunt March/Mrs. Kirk, and Howard Boyd as Professor Bhaer. They all did a wonderful job. They are all amazing singers. The cast of this year’s school musical has had many accomplishments. Junior Avery Morton has been in 31 shows including school and community theater. Senior Ivy Brillhart and Rebekah Dorland have been in a lot of Truman high schools theater productions and have done shows in other places, too. A lot of the cast is in choir, academic clubs, and/or does sports as well.

The set design was good. Many people did a great job working on it. The set walls had quotes from the Little Women book. I thought that it was cool how they did the living room and attic. The attic was above the bookshelves in the living room. It seemed pretty easy to go from one set to another. The costumes were good, too. They looked like outfits from the time that Little Women was written. The hair was also good. The wig might have been funny, but it showed the part of the story where Jo sold her hair, well.

The story of Little women was meaningful to the cast and crew. The director, Austin Meyer, said “This is a story that, now, means more and more to me, as I see pieces of the women in my own life, both little and otherwise, in the performances you see on stage,” in the director’s note in the program. The cast relates to this story because they have siblings like the people in the story. The story talks about the sister’s relationships and about womanhood.

Overall, it was a great school musical. The cast did a great job, the set was good, and the story was meaningful to many. I enjoyed watching it.