Once on This Island, 1990

The run closed December 1, 1991

Opened

October 18, 1990

Closed

December 1, 1991

Performances

469

Previews

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Theatre

Booth Theatre

Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 49th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Once on This Island 3 more that season

Who was in it18 named

Ibijoke Akinola
Vanita Harbour
Rozz Morehead
James Stovall

14 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 4 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters11 roles recorded

Lorna Brown Ti Moune
Anthony Corriete Daniel Beauxhomme
Sharon D. Clarke Asaka
Trevor Michael Georges Agwe
P. P. Arnold Erzulie
Clive Rowe Papa Ge
Shezwae Powell Mama Euralie
Johnny Worthy Tonton Julian
Suzanne Packer Andrea Deveraux
Mark Vincent Armand Beauxhomme
Monique Mason Little Ti Moune

Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Graciela Daniele

Choreographer

Graciela Daniele

Producer

Shubert Organization, Capital Cities/ABC, Suntory International and James Walsh in association with Playwrights Horizons

Orchestrations

Michael Starobin

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Around this production

• Ahrens and Flaherty came to Broadway with ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, which was also developed at Playwrights Horizons. Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 410
• the second, ONCE ON THIS ISLAND [April 6, 1990], hinted at a strong and sometimes glorious melodic gift; Show Tunes the Songs Shows and Careers of Broadway S Suskin Steven Suskin Steven, p. 412
• "...their Off-Broadway transfer, Once On This Island, truly had managed to make it on Broadway." Ever After the Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond Barry Singer, p. 183

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No recording is held for Once on This Island at all.
• No director named.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.