Once On This Island
Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Music by Stephen Flaherty: Based upon the novel My Love, My Loveby Rosa Guy Friday Playwrights Horizons (Off-Broadway) - May 6, 1990 (60 perfs)Booth Theatre, Broadway - October 18, 1990 (487 perfs)Royalty Theatre, London - September 28, 1994 (145 perfs)
Once On This Island is a captivating legend of romance between a peasant girl and a rich city boy whom she saves from death. This calypso-flavoured re-telling of The Little Mermaid opens on a Caribbean island where villagers comfort a little girl with the story of the orphan Ti Moune, destined to love too much for the human heart to bear. Staged with minimal props, sets and costumes, Once On This Island delivers melody, love and joy in tropical abundance. Duration: 90 minutes (one act).