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Once On This Island

Once On This Island

2021•1h 32m
MusicRomance

Once on This Island is a one-act musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, it is set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. It concerns a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring people together of different social classes.

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Production

Players by the Sea Theatre

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Terria Hill

Ti Moune

Anthony Llerandi

Daniel

Toni Diamond-Bingham

Asaka

Anthony Mincey

Agwe

Jadene King

Erzulie

Marquia Presley

Papa Ge

Rendell Debose

Tonton Julian

Kanesha Frederick

Mama Erualie

Anthawn Ingram

Armand / Ensemble

Angie Acedera

Andrea / Ensemble

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