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Once On This Island
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Once On This Island

2021-02-13 · 92 min · Not rated

Music · Romance

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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Directors
Jereme Raickett, Kelsey Tippins
Production companies
Players by the Sea Theatre
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Terria HillTi Moune
Anthony LlerandiDaniel
Toni Diamond-BinghamAsaka
Anthony MinceyAgwe
Jadene KingErzulie
Marquia PresleyPapa Ge
Rendell DeboseTonton Julian
Kanesha FrederickMama Erualie
Anthawn IngramArmand / Ensemble
Angie AcederaAndrea / Ensemble

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