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Once on This Island Friday, March 20, 2020; 7:30 Pm Saturday, March 21, 2020; 2 & 7:30 Pm Sunday, March 22, 2020; 1 & 6:30 Pm Once on This Island Friday, March 20, 2020; 7:30 pm Saturday, March 21, 2020; 2 & 7:30 pm Sunday, March 22, 2020; 1 & 6:30 pm KEN DAVENPORT HUNTER ARNOLD NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS and CARL DAIKELER ROY PUTRINO BROADWAY STRATEGIC RETURN FUND H. RICHARD HOPPER BRIAN CROMWELL SMITH ROB KOLSON KEVIN LYLE MICHELLE RILEY/DR. MOJGAN FAJRAM INVISIBLE WALL PRODUCTIONS/ISLAND PRODUCTIONS present Book & Lyrics by Music by LYNN AHRENS STEPHEN FLAHERTY Based on the novel “My Love, My Love” by Rosa Guy featuring JAHMAUL BAKARE KYLE RAMAR FREEMAN TAMYRA GRAY CASSONDRA JAMES PHILLIP BOYKIN DANIELLE LEE GREAVES TYLER HARDWICK with MCKYNLEIGH ALDEN ABRAHAM BRIANA BROOKS GEORGE L. BROWN MICHAEL IVAN CARRIER MIMI CROSSLAND MARIAMA DIOP JAY DONNELL ALEX JOSEPH GRAYSON PHYRE HAWKINS SAVY JACKSON TATIANA LOFTON ROBERT ZELAYA and introducing COURTNEE CARTER Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Tour Sound Design DANE LAFFREY CLINT RAMOS JULES FISHER + PETER HYLENSKI SHANNON SLATON PEGGY EISENHAUER Orchestrations Original Vocal Arrangements Hair/Wig and Make-up Design “Found” Instrument Design ANNMARIE MILAZZO & MICHAEL STEPHEN FLAHERTY COOKIE JORDAN JOHN BERTLES & STAROBIN BASH THE TRASH Casting Associate Director Associate Choreographer Music Director TELSEY + COMPANY JUSTIN SCRIBNER RICKEY TRIPP STEVEN CUEVAS CRAIG BURNS, CSA Music Coordinator Tour Booking, Press & Marketing General Management Production Manager JOHN MILLER BOND THEATRICAL GROUP GENTRY & ASSOCIATES NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS GREGORY VANDER PLOEG Associate Producers Company Manager Production Stage Manager Executive Producer KAYLA GREENSPAN JAMEY JENNINGS KELSEY TIPPINS TRINITY WHEELER VALERIE NOVAKOFF Music Supervisor CHRIS FENWICK Choreographer CAMILLE A. BROWN Director MICHAEL ARDEN www.harriscenter.net FEB–MAR 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE 53 Once on This Island continued CAST McKynleigh Jahmaul Phillip Briana Alden Bakare Boykin Brooks Abraham George L. Michael Ivan Courtnee MiMi Mariama Brown Carrier Carter Crossland Diop Jay Kyle Ramar Tamyra Alex Joseph Danielle Lee Donnell Freeman Gray Grayson Greaves Tyler Phyre Savy Cassondra Hardwick Hawkins Jackson James Tatiana Robert Lofton Zelaya 54 FEB–MAR 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE www.harriscenter.net Once on This Island continued CAST (in alphabetical order) Storyteller................................................................................................................................MCKYNLEIGH ALDEN ABRAHAM Agwe.................................................................................................................................................................JAHMAUL BAKARE Tonton Julian.......................................................................................................................................................PHILLIP BOYKIN Andrea/Storyteller............................................................................................................................................BRIANA BROOKS Armand/Storyteller.......................................................................................................................................GEORGE L. BROWN Beauxhomme/Storyteller....................................................................................................................MICHAEL IVAN CARRIER Ti Moune.........................................................................................................................................................COURTNEE CARTER Little Girl (at certain performances)............................................................................................................MIMI CROSSLAND Little Girl (at certain performances).................................................................................................................MARIAMA DIOP Storyteller.................................................................................................................................................................JAY DONNELL Asaka.......................................................................................................................................................KYLE RAMAR FREEMAN Papa Ge....................................................................................................................................................................TAMYRA GRAY “Beaxuhommes” Narrator/Storyteller.............................................................................................ALEX JOSEPH GRAYSON Mama Euralie........................................................................................................................................DANIELLE LEE GREAVES Daniel.................................................................................................................................................................TYLER HARDWICK “Beaxuhommes” Narrator/Storyteller..........................................................................................................PHYRE HAWKINS Storyteller..............................................................................................................................................................SAVY JACKSON Erzulie...........................................................................................................................................................CASSONDRA JAMES Storyteller...........................................................................................................................................................TATIANA LOFTON Storyteller............................................................................................................................................................ROBERT ZELAYA UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance. For Ti Moune—BRIANA BROOKS, SAVY JACKSON; For Daniel—MICHAEL IVAN CARRIER, ROBERT ZELAYA; For Agwe and Tonton Julian—GEORGE L. BROWN, JAY DONNELL; For Asaka and Mama Euralie—PHYRE HAWKINS, TATIANA LOFTON; For Erzulie—MCKYNLEIGH ALDEN ABRAHAM, SAVY JACKSON; For Papa Ge—MCKYNLEIGH ALDEN ABRAHAM, ALEX JOSEPH GRAYSON DANCE CAPTAIN ROBERT ZELAYA ONCE ON THIS ISLAND WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION. The taking of photographs, videotaping or other recording of this production is a violation of the copyright law and an actionable federal offense. www.harriscenter.net FEB–MAR 2020 PROGRAM GUIDE 55 Once on This Island continued MUSICAL NUMBERS “We Dance”.............................................................................................................................................................................................Company “One Small Girl”.......................................................................................................Tonton Julian, Mama Euralie, Little Girl, Storytellers “Waiting for Life”............................................................................................................................................................Ti Moune, Storytellers “And the Gods Heard Her Prayer”...............................................................................................................Asaka, Agwe, Papa Ge, Erzulie “Rain”..................................................................................................................................................................................... Agwe, Storytellers “Discovering Daniel”......................................................................................................................................................Ti Moune, Storytellers “Pray”.........................................................................................................................Ti Moune, Tonton Julian, Mama Euralie, Storytellers “Forever Yours”................................................................................................................................Ti Moune, Daniel, Papa Ge, Storytellers “The Sad Tale of the Beauxhommes”..........................................................................................................................Armand, Storytellers “Ti Moune”............................................................................Mama Euralie, Tonton Julian, Ti Moune, Storytellers “Mama Will Provide”...........................................................................................................................................................Asaka, Storytellers “Waiting for Life” (Reprise)...........................................................................................................Ti Moune “Some Say”.............................................................................................................Storytellers, Little Girl “The Human Heart”.......................................................................................................Erzulie, Storytellers “Gossip”..............................................................................................................................Storytellers “Some Girls”................................................................................................................................................................................................Daniel “The Ball”...............................................................................................................................................................Andrea, Daniel, Storytellers “Ti Moune’s Dance”..............................................................................................................................................Ti
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