It’s been 16 years since Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe presented the musical Once on This Island, and while my memories of that earlier show are vague, it is clear enough that, since then, WBTT has made big strides in terms of its production values.
That earlier production offered talent onstage in the coming-of-age story (a riff on The Little Mermaid) of a young, Black peasant girl in the French Antilles who falls in love with a lighter-skinned, mixed-race aristocrat, Daniel (Jermarcus Riggins), and is willing to die for him. But the production was probably fairly basic, compared to the one now onstage.
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