The Little Princess, Sara Crewe

Play Script by Nancy Seale, with music by Melissa Sweeney. This sparkling version of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic, while retaining its Victorian charm, is enhanced by humor, song, and suspense. Basic set with three interiors. Cast of 5 men, 18 women (including 12 pupils flexible in number and age according to production needs). Three scenes in front of curtain. Costumes of turn-of-the-century London.

To Sara Crewe, everyone at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies is a cold Miss Minchin, her timid sister Miss Amelia, pupils such as spiteful Lavinia or plodding Ermengarde, as well as the next-door invalid Gentleman and his Lascar. Imagination sustains Sara when, orphaned and no longer “Parlour Boarder,” she is banished to the attic. Becky, the little scullery maid, becomes her fast friend. Suddenly Sara’s bleak garret is mysteriously transformed. Finally she learns who her benefactors are. Miss Minchin receives her just comeuppance. Sara’s last song tells it “This is Just the Way It Ends in Books!”