Once on This Island
Shows · Once on This Island
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.
- Opened
- 1990
- Performances
- 469
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions4 on Broadway
| 1990 | Booth Theatre Original. October 18, 1990 | 469 performances |
| 2002 | Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre Revival. May 12, 2002 | 2 performances |
| 2017 | Circle in the Square Theatre Revival. December 3, 2017 · Michael Arden | 458 performances |
| 2023 | Transfer Theatre unknown. June 11, 2012 |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
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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3 passages naming Once on This Island, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Ahrens and Flaherty came to Broadway with ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, which was also developed at Playwrights Horizons. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p410
the second, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND [April 6, 1990], hinted at a strong and sometimes glorious melodic gift; book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p412
"...their Off-Broadway transfer, Once On This Island, truly had managed to make it on Broadway." book:ever-after-the-last-years-of-musical-theater-and-beyond-barry-singer#p183
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