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A Little Princess, The Musical is a musical with music by Andrew Lippa and book and lyrics by Brian Crawley, based on the 1950 children's novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Production history
Produced by TheatreWorks, the musical premiered at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in Palo Alto, California, on August 28, 2004, follwing previews from August 25. This production was directed by Susan Schulman with a cast that starred Mackenzie Mauzy as Sara Crewe and Will Chase as Captain Crewe. Although A Little Princess was labeled as "Broadway-bound", no move has been made to stage a Broadway production.

Response
Richard Connema, in Talkin' Broadway wrote:
 * "I give credit to TheatreWorks, Mr. Lippa, Mr. Crawley and director Susan H. Schulman for working toward making this old-fashioned family musical work wend its way to Broadway. However, the show needs to flow more smoothly and the characters need to be defined more sharply. There is just too much going on, with too little focus on the central characters. It's not a sophisticated musical, but there are saving graces in this production's singing, exuberant athletic dancing, melodic score and good production values. However, something is lacking to make it a great musical. Two liabilities are the indigestible book and two stories presented side by side."