SHOW INFORMATION
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
2024 RECIPIENT- JEFF AWARD- BEST ENSEMBLE- Short Run
2024 NOMINEE - JEFF AWARD BEST PRODUCTION - Short Run
CHICAGO READER RECOMMENDED! AUDIENCES LOVE IT!
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND | NOVEMBER 3-19, 2023
Presented at eta Creative Arts Foundation | 7558 S. South Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL. 60619.
FEATURED ON WGN-TV | SPOTLIGHT CHICAGO
The Tony Award Wining Musical, Once on This Island is a coming-of-age one-act stage musical 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. Ti Moune, a peasant girl, rescues a wealthy boy from the other side of the island, Daniel, with whom she falls in love. Unbeknownst to Ti Moune, the pompous gods who preside over the island make a bet with one another over which is stronger, love or death, the stakes being Ti Moune's life.
The show runs approximately 95 minutes with no intermission.
This production of Once on This Island originally premiered at The Drama Group in Chicago Heights to critical acclaim and sold out audiences. Pulse Theatre Chicago revamps this production at the historic eta Creative Art Foundation! Sponsored by Aaron Reese Boseman Productions LLC, eta Creative Arts Foundation, The Michael and Mona Heath Fund, Terri Devine, Greater Works LLC, Charlita Williams, and Florence Walker-Harris. Once on This Island is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI) All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com