Once on this Island
by Spectrum Theatre Company
Oct. 20 - Oct. 30, 2016
Thursdays-Sundays
Spectrum Theatre Company is pleased to bring you ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, playing OCTOBER 20TH – 30th on stage at The Boyd Vance Theater @ the George Washington Carver Museum.
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.
Spectrum Theatre Company’s (STC) production will be directed by Executive Director/Artistic Director Dr. Billy Harden. Sade Jones is our stellar choreographer.
This colorful and exciting musical production of Once On This Island will mesmerize and entertain you as you witness the magic of Austin’s ONLY professional African American theater company. Our stellar cast include STC company members and Austin favorites: Janis Stinson, Jacqui Cross, Judy Arnold-Hunter, Rebekka Bryant, Cameron McKnight, Robert King, Jr., Jayden Blackmon, Sonya Moore and Patrick Gathron just to name a few. This production is also a debut for Spectrum Theatre Company in the iconic Boyd Vance Theater which STC hopes will be their resident home in the near future.
About Spectrum Theatre Company
The Spectrum Theatre Company creates professional productions that promote artistic excellence through thought provoking stories of the human condition as seen through the spectrum of the African American experience with the goal to increase public awareness of the significant contributions of African Americans in creating a diversified American theatrical tradition; encourage and facilitate a culturally diverse and all-inclusive America by using theatre to teach, criticize, comment on, and model performance excellence; and uses theatre to create an American mythology that includes African Americans and other peoples of color in every thread of the fabric of our society.
Spectrum Theatre Company is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization under an umbrella of Austin PlayHouse
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Once on this Island
by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
Spectrum Theatre Company
October 20 - October 30, 2016
Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 pm, with a Wednesday performance October 26th @ 8:00 and a matinee performance Saturday, October 29th @ 2:30pm. Sunday performances are at 2:30 pm.
Tickets are $30 reserved seating, $25 for seniors and $20 for students and children. You may purchase tickets on-line at www.spectrumatx.org or on our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/spectrumATX.
The Boyd Vance Theater is located on the campus of the George Washington Carver Museum at 1165 Angelina St, Austin, TX 78702.
