Based upon the novel "My Love, My Love" by Rosa Guy.
Josef Weinberger licenses this show only in the United Kingdom
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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).
Cast: 5 men, 5 women, 1 girl
Instrumentation: Reed (piccolo/flute/alto flute/clarinet/soprano sax/percussion [finger cymbal]), per-cussion, guitar (electric/acoustic/classical), piano/keyboard I, keyboard II, double bass db. percussion [claves]