In 2001, Lippa joined Brian Crawley to create a musical adaptation of "A Little Princess". The show premiered in the summer of 2004 at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, California. The recording was released on September 13, 2011, on Ghostlight Records. Texas State University's musical theatre department, under the direction of actress Kaitlin Hopkins, presented a revised version of the show in concert with Lippa conducting October 16–19. Following that production, Music Theatre International made the title available for license to theatres all over the world.