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From: American Theatre
Date: 20041001
Author:Wren, Celia
Her 1911 novel The Secret Garden has bloomed into a modern musical-theatre classic, but Frances Hodgson Burnett's huge literary output included another saga of a stubborn young heroine at odds with society. The riches-to-rags tale A Little Princess (1905) has inspired two drastically different new musicals this season: Two months after Theatre Works, in Palo Alto, Calif., premiered an adaptation by Brian Crawley and composer Andrew Lippa (featuring Will Chase and Mackenzie Mauzy, in photo), Goodspeed Musicals, in East Haddam, Conn., launches Princesses, about 21st-century teenage ...
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