Audition Announcement: Once On This Island

This same community theatre has produced multiple August Wilson plays, Lin Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed In the Heights, as well as theatre-goer favorites such as The Music Man, Legally Blonde, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Their latest announcement invites the community to audition for Once On This Island, a Tony Award-nominated, Olivier Award-winning, boisterous Caribbean adaptation of the famed children’s story The Little Mermaid. 

Dexter Overall (Director), Marvin Curtis (Music Director), and Pierre Cooks (Choreographer) lead the production team for Once On This Island, book and lyric by Lynn Ahrens, Music by Stephen Flaherty. 

Auditions are being held Tue., November 19th and Wed., November 20th at the South Bend Civic Theatre. Full details, including a character breakdown and what to prepare for the audition can be found on their website here.

Synopsis: 

Ti Moune, a peasant girl, rescues a wealthy boy from the other side of the island, Daniel, with whom she falls in love. Unbeknownst to Ti Moune, the pompous gods who preside over the island make a bet with one another over which is stronger, love or death, the stakes being Ti Moune’s life. When she pursues Daniel, who has returned to his people, Ti Moune is shunned because of her lowly status. Her determination and capacity to love, though, is not enough to win Daniel’s heart, and Ti Moune pays the ultimate price; but the gods turn Ti Moune into a tree that grows so strong and so tall, it breaks the wall that separates the societies and ultimately unites them.