Shows · Once on This Island (2017 Revival)
Once on This Island (2017 Revival)
Opened 2017
458 performances
Revival, Contemporary
In the French Antilles, peasant girl Ti Moune rescues the wealthy mulatto Daniel after a car accident and falls deeply in love with him. Making a bargain with the gods -- her life for his -- she follows Daniel to his world of privilege, only to be rejected when he marries within his own class. The gods transform Ti Moune into a tree, and her love becomes a bridge between the island's divided peoples.
- Music
- Stephen Flaherty
- Lyrics
- Lynn Ahrens
- Book
- Lynn Ahrens
Recordings 4 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Once on This Island matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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…
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