Hundreds of people worked behind the scenes to restore the Civic Theatre and Little Women to performance readiness.

Hundreds of people worked behind the scenes to restore the Civic Theatre and Little Women to 'performance readiness'. They worked diligently around-the-clock to try and meet the original Aug. 30 opening, but ran out of time. It was important to the producers of the show, and to us, that our patrons see this beautifully realized national tour production, rather than a compromised version.

I can't express my appreciation enough to all of the people who made a tremendous effort so that our audiences would still have the first opportunity to see this splendidly staged musical version of the Louisa May Alcott classic. I hope our patrons affected by this delayed opening will take the opportunity to attend one of the weekend performances, and understand the extraordinary circumstances that have allowed this to happen.

Thank goodness the system worked like it was supposed to. The sprinklers came on and contained it to a very limited area. It could have been a lot worse.

I was happy with the performance. When we have four people in double figures we're pretty much set.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.