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Once on This Island Gets a Brand-New Broadway Cast Recording

The revival production will release the album with Broadway Records in February 2018.

The revival cast of Once on This Island will record a brand-new album for Broadway Records.
The revival cast of Once on This Island will record a brand-new album for Broadway Records.
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The Broadway revival of Once on This Island, which opened December 3 at Circle in the Square Theatre, has announced plans to release a new Broadway cast recording with Broadway Records. The album will be released on CD and digitally at most major music retailers on February 23, 2018. The album is currently available for preorder at BroadwayRecords.com, Amazon, and at Circle in the Square Theatre.

The release of Once on This Island will mark the 100th new release by Broadway Records since the label was established in 2012. The album is produced by Elliot Scheiner, Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Hunter Arnold, and Ken Davenport.

Directed by Michael Arden and choreographed by Camille A. Brown, Once on This Island features a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. The musical, which debuted on Broadway in 1990, is based on the novel My Love, My Love by Rosa Guy, and the revival production features new orchestrations by original orchestrator Michael Starobin, joined by AnnMarie Milazzo.

Hailey Kilgore leads the company in her Broadway debut as Ti Moune. She is joined by Phillip Boykin (Tonton Julian), Merle Dandridge (Papa Ge), Quentin Earl Darrington (Agwe), Emerson Davis and Mia Williamson (alternating as Little Girl), Alysha Deslorieux (Andrea), David Jennings (Armand), Kenita R. Miller (Mama Euralie), Alex Newell (Asaka), Isaac Powell (Daniel), and Lea Salonga (Erzulie). The Storytellers for this production include Darlesia Cearcy, Rodrick Covington, Cassondra James, David Jennings, Grasan Kingsberry, Tyler Hardwick, Loren Lott, T. Oliver Reid, Aurelia Williams, and Mia Williamson.

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