It was brought back to New York in 2004, with a sold-out three-week run off-Broadway. The musical ran Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre during summer 2002 with a cast that included Becca Ayers as Sarah and John Lloyd Young as Caleb. The score is by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin. The story was made into a one-act children's musical and produced by TheatreWorksUSA. MacLachlan wrote the screenplays, and the same actors played the roles of Sarah, Jacob, Anna, and Caleb. The next two books in the series- Skylark and Caleb's Story-were the basis for two more television movies- Skylark and Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End. The screenplay was written by MacLachlan, and it starred Glenn Close and Christopher Walken. Sarah, Plain and Tall was adapted into a television movie, Sarah, Plain and Tall. Anna reveals that Jacob and Sarah married soon afterward.Īdaptations Film adaptations Admitting that she misses the sea, Sarah says that she would miss them more if she left. They are overjoyed when Sarah returns by nightfall. When Sarah goes to town by wagon on her own, Anna tries to reassure Caleb that Sarah will return, while secretly fearing that she will not.
The Wittings become attached to Sarah, though Caleb constantly worries that their home is not enough for her and that she misses the sea. Sarah is stubborn and persistent, and she gradually wins over Jacob with her insistence on learning and helping out with farm tasks. When she arrives conditionally for one month, Anna notices that Sarah is lonely and misses the sea. While Anna is initially apprehensive about Sarah as she still has memories of her late mother, Caleb is excited and deeply hopes that Sarah will stay. Sarah Wheaton, from Maine, answers his ad and travels out to become his wife. He writes an ad in the newspaper for a mail-order bride.
Jacob Witting, a widowed farmer who is still saddened by the death of his wife during childbirth several years before, finds that the task of taking care of his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle alone. The story is set in the Midwestern United States during the late 19th century.
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