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''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. The show includes elements of the ''Romeo and Juliet'' story and elements of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale ''The Little Mermaid''. It concerns a peasant girl on a tropical island, who uses the power of love to bring together people of different social classes. The original Broadway production ran from 1990 to 1991, and the West End production opened in 1994, where it won the 1995 Olivier Award for Best New Musical. ==Production history== ''Once on This Island'' was originally staged at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons, running from May 6, 1990 through May 27, 1990. The Broadway production opened on October 18, 1990 at the Booth Theatre and closed on December 1, 1991, after 469 performances and 19 previews. With direction and choreography by Graciela Daniele, the musical featured LaChanze as Ti Moune, Jerry Dixon as Daniel, Andrea Frierson as Erzulie, Sheila Gibbs as Mama Euralie, Kecia Lewis as Asaka, Gerry McIntyre as Armand, Milton Craig Nealy as Agwe, Eric Riley as Papa Ge, Ellis E. Williams as Tonton Julian and Afi McClendon as Little Ti Moune. In 2002, the original Broadway cast was reunited with special guest Lillias White to perform the show for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund. The European premiere took place in 1994, hosted by the Birmingham Rep, and then transferred to the West End Royalty Theatre (now the Peacock Theatre) in September 1994. The production won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical.〔Shenton, Mark. ("Clarke to Star in U.K. Revival of Ahrens and Flaherty's 'Once on This Island' " ), Playbill.com, January 12, 2009.〕 The musical was revived in the UK in 2009 at Birmingham Rep, Nottingham Playhouse, and the Hackney Empire Theatre in London. Susie McKenna directed, with Sharon D. Clarke reprising her 1994 role as Asaka.〔〔(''Once on This Island'' listing ), nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk, 2009, retrieved January 10, 2010.〕〔(''Once on This Island'' listing ), birmingham-rep.co.uk, 2009, retrieved January 10, 2010〕〔Bosanquet, Theo. ("Review:''Once on This Island'' at Hackney ), whatsonstage.com, July 29, 2009.〕 In June 2012, the Paper Mill Playhouse presented a production directed by Thomas Kail,〔("Goings on about Town: The Theatre" ), ''The New Yorker''〕 Syesha Mercado as Ti Moune〔("Theatre in Review: Once on This Island (Paper Mill Playhouse)" ), L&S Online America, June 11, 2012〕 and Darius de Haas as Agwe.〔("Stage Tube: Highlights from Paper Mill Playhouse's ''Once on this Island''" ), broadway.com, June 11, 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Once on This Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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