The central romance feels overly familiar, but this touring production's ensemble creates a magical environment.
Your affection for Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's 1990 musical Once on This Island may well depend upon how much patience you have for narratives about young heroines who sacrifice all for the love of men who clearly don't deserve them. (See also The Little Mermaid, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, etc., ad nauseam.)…
The central romance feels overly familiar, but this touring production's ensemble creates a magical environment.
Your affection for Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's 1990 musical Once on This Island may well depend upon how much patience you have for narratives about young heroines who sacrifice all for the love of men who clearly don't deserve them. (See also The Little Mermaid, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, etc., ad nauseam.)…