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A girl's own story: a pair of variations on A Little Princess flavor the season with British indominability.(critic's notebook)(A Little Princess)(Princesses)

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From: American Theatre
Date: 20041101
Author:Wren, Celia

They say the sun never sets on the British Empire--but if it is going to set, the event certainly won't be recorded as a fatality of the 2004-05 season. This theatrical year has greeted not one but two high-powered, ostensibly Broadway-bound musicals based on A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett's much-loved novel about a little girl who's orphaned in the maelstrom of Britain's colonial ambitions. That's a substantial presence for a work that was published almost exactly a century ago, in 1905 (an earlier version appeared in 1888), painting its vivid portrait of Sara Crewe, ...

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