Once on this Island at New Haven Academy

Name: Once on this Island at New Haven Academy
Start: 2025-04-05T11:00:00-04:00
Location: 444 Orange Street, Downtown New Haven, CT

Schedule

Sat, 05 Apr, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

444 Orange Street, Downtown New Haven, CT | New Haven, CT

New Haven Academy’s Award-Winning Legacy Studios Drama Club is thrilled to close its 2nd season with “Once On This Island.” Set on a verdant Caribbean island, this Tony Award-winning musical tells the coming-of-age story of a peasant girl searching for love and her place in the world, while dealing with complicated social issues of race, class and affairs of the heart.
Based on the novel “My Love, My Love” by Rosa Guy, this sweeping production showcases Afro-Caribbean rhythms and instruments, with music and lyrics by the Tony Award-winning musical team behind “Ragtime” (lyrics and book by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty).
“Once on This Island” tells the story of Ti Moune, a young peasant girl who saves the life of a rich, aristocratic boy from the other side of the island after a car crash. She falls in love with him; unbeknownst to her, though, the same gods who saved her when she was lost and alone in a terrible storm years ago – Asaka, Mother of the Earth; Agwé, god of Water; Erzulie, goddess of Love; and Papa Ge, demon of Death – make a wager over which is stronger, love or death, the stakes being Ti Moune’s life.
Which will ultimately prevail? Audiences will have to wait to find out. The New York Daily News said “Once on This Island” is, “A bewitching musical that celebrates love, resilience and the spirit of hope.”