once there was a love

Once on This Island is a coming-of-age one-act stage musical with a book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. It is based on the 1985 novel My Love, My Love; or, The Peasant Girl by Rosa Guy, a Caribbean-set retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid. It concerns a peasant girl in the French Antilles who falls in love with a rich boy and makes a deal with the gods to save his life.
The original Broadway production ran from 1990 to 1991, and the West End production opened in 1994, where it won the 1995 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. The musical was revived on Broadway in a production that opened on December 3, 2017 at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The revival was showered with critical acclaim, with New York Times critic Jesse Green describing it as "ravishing" and The Huffington Post praising it for creating "an aesthetic experience unlike anything seen on Broadway." It won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.
A Disney film adaptation is currently in development for Disney+.

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    Foreign Music Once There Was A Love

    Once There Was A Love José Feliciano Once there was a love. Deeper than any ocean Once there was a love filled with such a devotion. It was yours and mine. To hold and cherish and to deep for a life time. Then you went away on the lonely day Once there was a love Now I don't know how I can...
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