"Once on This Island" is an enchanting musical fable written by the Tony Award-winning team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and is based on the novel "My Love, My Love" by Rosa Guy. In 1991, Once On This Island was nominated for eight Tony Awards on Broadway, and in 1995 was honored with the Olivier Award for Best Musical in London’s West End. Set on an island in the French Antilles, the story
follows the journey of Ti Moune, a poor orphaned peasant girl who falls deeply in love with a rich city boy whom she rescues from death. The gods of Love, Earth, Water, and Death cause the lives of the young lovers to intersect, and send Ti Moune on a fateful quest that tests the strength of her love against the powerful forces of social prejudice and death. With a rousing calypso-flavored pop score and a uniquely moving combination of dance, drama and song, Once on This Island celebrates the art of storytelling. It is one of Musical Theater’s great Treasures.
