{"id":66606,"date":"2023-02-14T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/regents-park-open-air-theatre-announces-principal-casting-for-once-on-this-island-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:30:15","slug":"regents-park-open-air-theatre-broadcasts-principal-casting-for-once-on-this-island-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/14\/regents-park-open-air-theatre-broadcasts-principal-casting-for-once-on-this-island-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre broadcasts principal casting for Once On This Island \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre<\/strong>\u00a0have at present introduced principal casting for his or her forthcoming manufacturing of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical\u00a0Once On This Island<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(10 May-10 June, press night time 17 May 2023), together with the inventive workforce.<\/p>\n

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Gabrielle Brooks\u00a0<\/strong>(Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical,\u00a0<\/em>Olivier Award Nomination) will play the central position of Ti Moune with\u00a0Stephenson Ardern-Sodje<\/strong>\u00a0(Hamilton<\/em>) as Daniel.<\/p>\n

Full casting shall be introduced in the end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Directed by\u00a0Ola Ince,\u00a0<\/strong>Once On This Island\u00a0<\/em>has a e book and lyrics by\u00a0Lynn Ahrens<\/strong>\u00a0and music by\u00a0Stephen Flaherty<\/strong>, and relies on the novel\u00a0My Love, My Love<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Rosa Guy<\/strong>. The unique West End manufacturing gained Best New Musical on the Olivier Awards when it premiered in 1995 and the latest Broadway revival gained the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival in 2018.<\/p>\n

The inventive workforce additionally contains\u00a0Phil Bateman<\/strong>\u00a0(Musical Supervisor),\u00a0Niamh Gaffney<\/strong>\u00a0(Associate Sound Designer),\u00a0Jessica Hung Han Yun<\/strong>\u00a0(Lighting Designer),\u00a0Niquelle LaTouche<\/strong>\u00a0(Associate Choreographer),\u00a0Nick Lidster<\/strong>\u00a0(Sound Designer),\u00a0Georgia Lowe<\/strong>\u00a0(Designer),\u00a0Lindsay McAllister<\/strong>\u00a0(Associate Director),\u00a0Philip d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans\u00a0<\/strong>(Fight Director),\u00a0Chris Poon\u00a0<\/strong>(Musical Director),\u00a0Kenrick \u2018H2O\u2019 Sandy\u00a0<\/strong>(Choreographer),\u00a0Melissa Simon-Hartman<\/strong>\u00a0(Costume Designer) and\u00a0Jacob Sparrow<\/strong>\u00a0(Casting Director).<\/p>\n

Astory of affection, grief, religion and hope,\u00a0Once On This Island<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>tells of peasant lady Ti Moune, a boy referred to as Daniel, and a union that prejudice forbids. Against the warmth of the Caribbean solar and destruction of tropical storms, can Ti Moune settle the wager of the Gods, and show that love is extra highly effective than demise?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Director Ola Ince mentioned:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce on this island is a poignant, moving and politically charged story. I\u2019m thrilled to be working with an extraordinary talented team at Regent Park\u2019s Open Air Theatre; a place where true magic happens. It\u2019s a dream come true!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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[ad_1] Regent\u2019s Park Open Air Theatre\u00a0have at present introduced principal casting for his or her forthcoming manufacturing of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical\u00a0Once On This Island\u00a0(10 May-10 June, press night time 17 May 2023), together with the inventive workforce. Gabrielle Brooks\u00a0(Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical,\u00a0Olivier Award Nomination) will play the central […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}