Get Ready For the Broadway Revival of Once on This Island With These Photos of the Original Production | Playbill

Archival Photos Get Ready For the Broadway Revival of Once on This Island With These Photos of the Original Production The Broadway revival will begin performances November 9.
Milton Craig Nealy, LaChanze, and Gerry McIntyre Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts

Once on This Island, which features a score by Anastasia and Ragtime duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 1990 before transferring to Broadway later that year. The show opened at the Booth Theatre October 18, 1990. The story, set in the Caribbean, follows a peasant girl and her star-crossed romance with a young man from the wealthy side of her island, which is ruled by four island gods.

Flip through photos of the origininal production below:

Look Back at the Original Production of Once On This Island

The Michael Arden-helmed Broadway revival will begin performances November 9 prior to a December 3 official opening at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

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