Principal casting and creative team announced for ONCE ON THIS ISLAND at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre have announced principal casting for their forthcoming production of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical Once On This Island, which plays at the venue from 10 May-10 June, along with the creative team. 

Gabrielle Brooks (Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical) will play the central role of Ti Moune, with Stephenson Ardern-Sodje (Hamilton) as Daniel.

Full casting will be announced in due course. 

Directed by Ola Ince, Once On This Island has a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty, and is based on the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy. The original West End production won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards when it premiered in 1995 and the most recent Broadway revival won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival in 2018.

The creative team also includes musical supervisor Phil Bateman, lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun, sound designer Nick Lidster, designer Georgia Lowe, musical director Chris Poon, choreographer Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy, costume designer Melissa Simon-Hartman, and casting director Jacob Sparrow.

A story of love, grief, faith and hope, Once On This Island tells of peasant girl Ti Moune, a boy called Daniel, and a union that prejudice forbids. Against the heat of the Caribbean sun and destruction of tropical storms, can Ti Moune settle the wager of the Gods, and prove that love is more powerful than death? 

Director Ola Ince said: “Once On This Island is a poignant, moving and politically charged story. I'm thrilled to be working with an extraordinary talented team at Regent Park’s Open Air Theatre; a place where true magic happens. It's a dream come true!”

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