Shows · Once on This Island
Once on This Island
Opened 1990
469 performances
Musical, Megamusical
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.
- Music
- Stephen Flaherty Lyrics and
- Lyrics
- Lynn Ahrens (based on My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy)
- Book
- Lynn Ahrens (based on My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy)
Productions4 productions: 3 on Broadway, 1 in the West End
2017
458 performances
2023
Songs9 songs
We Dance, One Small Girl, And the Gods Heard Her Prayer, Pray, Forever Yours, The Sad Tale of Beauxhommes, Mama Will Provide, Some Girls, Why We Tell the Story
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Once on This Island matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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