![]() She’s got a crush on David, Meg’s ex who’s signed on to play John Brooke in the upcoming season. From Jo’s point of view the sisters’ personalities track, too: Meg is pretty, Amy spoiled, and despite her wish to earn a cross-country scholarship to college, Jo gets stuck being resentfully responsible. As in Alcott’s book, their father is vaguely elsewhere. ![]() Tensions-romantic and otherwise-abound for high school junior Jo Porter, better known (though still not all that well, to her dismay) for portraying Jo March in her family’s theater production, Little Women Live!įor the past seven years, Jo and her sisters, Meg, a senior, and Amy, a sophomore-in the absence of a fourth sister, they hold annual auditions for a Beth-have played their parts in turning their mother’s favorite book into a “semiprofessional tourist attraction” on their small Kansas farm. ![]()
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