The Bangkok Community Theatre will open its 2019 season with six rounds of the Broadway musical Once On This Island, to be staged on March 22 and 23, and 29 and 30, at 7.30pm, plus a 4pm matinee on March 23 and 30. The venue is Creative Industries, M Theatre on New Phetchaburi Road.
The 90-minute one-act musical opened on Broadway to great acclaim in 1990, and got a Tony for best revival of a musical in 2018, competing against revivals of My Fair Lady and Carousel.
Based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; Or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, Once On This Island is set in the French Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.
It brings the story of a peasant girl on a tropical island, who is guided by the island gods of earth, water, love and death. With their guidance and strength she uses the power of love to bring together people of different social classes and backgrounds.
The story begins as Ti Moune is orphaned by a storm. She is adopted by two loving peasants and dreams of a life bigger than the one she's living. She falls in love with a boy from the rich side of the island and heals him after he suffers a car crash.
The power of love guides her to overcome death and obtain her final destiny -- a bit similar to the story of Romeo And Juliet and the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Little Mermaid, but in a very different setting.
The joyful, life-affirming musical promises great fun, fascinating characters, touching moments and a beautiful lineup of songs. Mama Will Provide is a rousing number about Ti Moune's journey with Asaka, mother earth, from her home near the sea to the big city where her love lives.
The Human Heart is a soaring ballad about the power that binds us one to another.
The show opens with the upbeat song We Dance and ends with the inspiring We Tell The Story.
Directed by Michael Allman, the production will feature a multinational cast that includes Ashley Moyles, Bonnie Zellerbach, Celia Barthman, Emilia Clarke, Jay Pangilinan, Kaylee Marie, Kristoffer Cabuyao, Naomi Bactol, Neil Anthony Castillo, Pearl Rapeeporn, Philip Luis and Zipporah Gene.
Tickets cost 850 baht and can be purchased from http://ticketmelon.com.
