Lea Salonga - The Human Heart - ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Rehearsals

Enter the rehearsal room with Lea Salonga and the cast of ONCE ON THIS ISLAND.

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. In 2017, the Broadway revival will begin previews on November 9 before its opening night on December 3, 2017 at The Circle in the Square Theatre.

Video Credits:

Broadway.com
Theater Mania
Frank DiLella

Reuploaded. Thanks Ms. Wickedtin for providing the missing part of the video. :)