For much of the 1970s, Little House on the Prairie was a mainstay of prime-time television and remains an iconic series. It also gave Melissa Gilbert the role with which she will always be identified spunky little Half-Pint, Laura Ingalls. Now, some 28 years after Little House went off the air, Gilbert returns to familiar territory this time as the matriarch of the Ingalls clan. But thats not the only twist: The mild frontier will also be alive with the sound of music in what else Little House on the Prairie: The Musical. (What Prairie! was too obvious?) Instead of going back to Walnut Grove, the creators of this show have sent the plucky pioneers to
This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2010.
