The run closed January 6, 2019
- Opened
- December 3, 2017
- Closed
- January 6, 2019
- Performances
- 458
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Circle in the Square Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 59th 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
| 1990 | Booth Theatre Original | 469 perf. |
| 2002 | Cadillac Winter Garden Theatre Revival | 2 perf. |
| 2023 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it26 named
Rodrick Covington
Alysha Deslorieux
Tyler Hardwick
Grasan Kingsberry
Loren Lott
Aurelia Williams
Tamyra Gray
Michelle T Williams
Juliet Benn
Boise Holmes
Adam Hyndman
Allan K Washington
Anthony Wayne
13 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 13 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.
Characters10 roles recorded
Courtnee Carter Ti Moune
Tyler Hardwick Daniel Beauxhomme
Kyle Ramar Freeman Asaka
Jahmaul Bakare Agwe
Cassondra Kellam Erzulie
Tamyra Gray Papa Ge
Danielle Lee Greaves Mama Euralie
Briana Brooks Andrea Deveraux
George L. Brown Armand Beauxhomme
Mimi Crossland Mariama Diop 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
- Michael Arden
- Choreographer
- Camille A. Brown
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.
Around this production
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…
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.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.