Once on This Island, 2017

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Who was in it26 named

H

Hailey Kilgore

Lea Salongab. 1971

A

Alex Newell

M

Merle Dandridge

Q

Quentin Earl Darrington

P

Phillip Boykin

D

Darlesia Cearcy

D

David Jennings

K

Kenita R. Miller

Norm Lewisb. 1963

C

Cicily Daniels

X

Ximone Rose

A

Anna Uzele

Rodrick Covington
Alysha Deslorieux
Tyler Hardwick
Grasan Kingsberry
Loren Lott
Aurelia Williams
Tamyra Gray
Michelle T Williams
Juliet Benn
Boise Holmes
Adam Hyndman
Allan K Washington
Anthony Wayne

Creative team

Director

Michael Arden

Choreographer

Camille A. Brown

Around this production

Once on This Island is a coming-of-age one-act stage musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. It is based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, a Caribbean-set retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid. It concerns a peasant girl in the French Antilles who falls in love with a rich boy and makes a deal with the gods to save his life. The original Broadway production ran from 1990 to 1991, and the West End production opened in 1994, where it won the 1995 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. The musical was revived on Broadway in a production that opened on December 3, 2017 at the Circle in t…