Show Synopsis:
Sara Crewe has spent most of her life living a privileged life in Africa with her adventurous father, but he decides to send her to a boarding school in England to educate her and keep her safe. Sara is well-liked by almost everybody, and becomes good friends with the school's servant Becky and two other outcast students named Ermengarde and Lottie. When word reaches the school that Sara's father has died and she was left penniless, the headmistress Miss Minchin makes her work as a servant alongside Becky for her room and board. Sara tries to remain optimistic despite Miss Minchin's cruelty, and her old friend Pasko helps her escape the school on Christmas Eve. They ask Becky to meet them the next day, but when they go to the school looking for her, they find that Becky has escaped as well. Miss Minchin is about to arrest Sara and Pasko when Becky comes with Queen Victoria, who is determined to arrest Miss Minchin. Queen Victoria agrees with Sara that anyone can be a princess, because being a princess is more about how you act than what family you are born into.
Character:
Sara Crewe, an extremely kind and intelligent girl; tries to remain optimistic; misses her parents but wants to make the best of whatever situation she is in.
Song Context:
Sara believes she has found a new friend in Becky, but as she is telling Becky stories, Miss Minchin walks in and yells at both of them. She tells Sara to not talk to the servants, or anyone else, without her permission. She leaves to beat Becky with a cane and Sara wonders at the unfairness of it all.
Fun Facts:
1) This musical is based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's novel A Little Princess.
2) Mackenzie Mauzy originated the role of Sara in the musical's reigonal premiere at TheatreWorks.
"I don't wanna go along with the crowd.
Don't wanna live life under a cloud.
Give me some air and space
And sun on my face.
I wanna live out loud.
Don't wanna be alone in the crowd,
Don't wanna seem peculiar and proud.
I need to be as free
As I know how to be.
I wanna live out loud.
Every day - sleep, walk, lock, step -
No one dares to stray.
Though they may - straightlaced, shamefaced-
Long to break away,
They're as lonely as can be.
Is that what they want from me?
I don't wanna go along with the crowd.
Don't wanna live life under a cloud.
Give me some air and space
And sun on my face.
I wanna live out loud.
Don't wanna be alone in the crowd,
Don't wanna seem peculiar and proud.
Nobody wants me here,
But I won't be disappear.
I wanna live out loud
I wanna run down an open shoreline,
I wanna join in a moonlit dance,
I wanna swing with the branches of a tree.
I wanna bathe in a hidden inlet
And let the breeze come and dry my hair.
I want the life they took away from me.
If they makes me headstrong - fine!
That's a fault I'm glad is mine.
I don't wanna go along with the crowd,
Don't want my spirit broken and bowed.
Why do I have to hide what I'm feeling inside?
I wanna live out loud.
Don't wanna be alone in the crowd
I only want what I'm not allowed.
Give me the wings of a bird -
I'll be seen and be heard.
I wanna sing when my heart is full,
I wanna sing and I wanna fly,
I wanna soar the sky without a cloud,
I wanna live out loud."