{"id":2628,"date":"2009-02-25T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/02\/little-musical-house-on-the-pr.html"},"modified":"2009-02-25T11:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T11:00:25","slug":"little-musical-house-on-the-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/02\/little-musical-house-on-the-pr.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Little (Musical) House on the Prairie&#8217;: Melissa Gilbert as Ma Ingalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<form mt:asset-id=\"3454\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"littlehousepic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/littlehousepic.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"253\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/form>\n<p>As a child, I was pretty obsessed with all things &#8220;Little House on the Prairie&#8221;&#8211; all of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, and of course the TV show, which explored the life of a Christian family living in Minnesota and starred a spunky young brunette actress named Melissa Gilbert in the role of frontier tomboy Laura Ingalls. Musically, the show did have a very memorable opening theme, featuring the young Laura and her sisters running in a field (see below) and pretending to fly (the end credits, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Em9XEs9H2JI\" target=\"_blank\">see this clip<\/a>). But most of the other songs in the TV show were church-centered, which caused some confusion as I hummed along, trying to figure out what &#8220;Bringing in the Sheaves&#8221; meant. But now frontiering and pioneering will get a new beat, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090224\/ap_en_tv\/theater_little_house\" target=\"_blank\">as the musical version of &#8220;Little House on the Prairie&#8221;<\/a> launches its national tour in St. Paul, Minnesota, this fall. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordway.org\/performances\/0910\/little-house-on-the-prairie.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Ordway Center for the Performing Arts<\/a> announced Monday that &#8220;Little House&#8221; will kick off its 2009-2010 theater season.The show premiered in Minneapolis last summer, and starred all-grown-up &#8220;Little House&#8221; star Melissa Gilbert playing the role of Ma Ingalls. Performances of the show were sold-out. In the national tour, Gilbert will again play Ma Ingalls. But what will the music be like?Will the old theme song&#8211; instrumental for the 1970s series&#8211; get new lyrics? 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