Once on this Island

[GretchaSketh]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 6:03pm

Was Once on this Island ever on Broadway??

[DivaMommy]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 6:14pm

Yes.
The Ahrens & Flaherty Website

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 6:28pm

That's cool; Jason Alexander has been trying to make a movie version of it for four years! (although I'm sure that was a while ago)

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 6:30pm

I LOVE ONCE ON THIS ISLAND!
I went through my OOTI obsession phase when most of my friends were into Rent.
So lonely, out on that limb by myself.
Everyone thought I was crazy.
Probably because it's weird for a skinny white girl like myself to be belting "Mama Will Provide".
Ah well.

[PrivateUniverse]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 6:33pm

Once on this Island remains one of my favorite Broadway musicals ever. I've always hoped that they would air it on PBS or produce a dvd version.

[iruvyou]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 7:13pm

Oh, love OOTI, the music is soooooooo cool! I was in it once as one of the story tellers

[GretchaSketh]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 7:14pm

Mama will provide is such a great song. I just wish I could truly belt it. Too bad I don't have a belting voice:/

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 7:24pm

Oh, I'm a belter.

"You nevah bin ay-way from de sea, chid!
You gonna need a helpin' hand.
A fish has got to learn to swim on land!"

[GretchaSketh]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 7:29pm

I'm very jealous. My voice teacher has been trying to get me to use my low more but I'm having a hard time:/

[iruvyou]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 7:31pm

Oh i can sing that song! Belters rock!!!!! WOOT!

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 7:32pm

Yes, that's the one upside to being a 2nd alto like me.
I sound like Toni Braxton.
Or a man.
Whatever.

Most of the time, though, I'd give whatever I have to be able to sing high and pretty like a girl.

Updated On: 6/16/04 at 07:32 PM

[iruvyou]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 10:15pm

I'm not even sure what i am i can belt it out and hit pretty low notes but i was able to sing pretty freak'n high when i played marian in the music man

[EffieWhite]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 10:28pm

There will be a production of ONCE ON THIS ISLAND at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor this August.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:17pm

iruvyou, I think you'd be classified as "lucky". :)

[ckeaton]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:25pm

You know... people looked at me funny when I would deliver papers singing 'Rain', near the top of my lungs.

But I didn't care.
I always thought I'd make a great Ague or Papa Ge for that matter.

I am a car racing towards distant shores...

[jefflang007]

Posted: 6/16/04 at 11:41pm

if you want a great A & F musical. check out lucky stiff. it is by far one of their best.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 12:01am

Yes, ckeaton.
I would be a great Asaka.
If only I weren't a skinny white girl.

"That's what a Mama's worth
to give her child the Earth
And whatever you need
Mama will
ProviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIiiiiIIIIde"

It sounds great in the shower.

Updated On: 6/17/04 at 12:01 AM

Posted: 6/17/04 at 12:26am

OOTI is one of the best shows I have ever seen. Whenever I am cleaning my house I put on that cd and dance around like I just don't care to We Dance... A Cub-like Build Gay Man dancing like he is from the the Caribian.

I also sang The Human Heart at two of my lesbians friends weddings. I cried both times.

We are allllll part of the human hearttttt

But I must say that I love PP's versoin from the London Cast the best of that song.

[elle_hudson]

Posted: 6/25/04 at 10:08pm

I'm playing Mama Euralie in Once On This Island right now. We open next week!

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/25/04 at 10:41pm

Break a leg, chica!
"Ti Moune" is like the saddest song ever.
I cry every time I hear it.
Sing the heck out of it.
:)

[FinnFanatic]

Posted: 6/26/04 at 12:33am

I own a theatre company and I'm directing/music directing OOTI this summer. I'm having a great time. The show is amazing. Our cast is a bunch of white suburban college students, but we have some great talent. Our Asaka is skinnier than a pole, but boy can she belt it out.

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 6/26/04 at 12:36am

I don't know the show, but I once performed Waiting for Life at some dinner theatre shindig thingy....
After reading your enthusiastic posts I am SO going to go do me some research!

[DivaMommy]

Posted: 6/26/04 at 1:00am

OOTI ROCKS! I played Andrea last year and I still miss the show!

See - my new icon is my hubby (Papa Ge) and Ti-Moune. Awesome show!!!!

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/26/04 at 3:27am

Thanks Finn.
You have given this skinny white girl hope!
Someday, somehow, I will be mother of the Earth.
As for the nay-sayers
"I should find a tree all covered with mangoes..."

[ckeaton]

Posted: 6/26/04 at 11:53am

~ff~, you'll always be my Erzulie.
I don't care.