Once on this Island to return to London in special concert

Tony Award winner Alex Newell will reprise their acclaimed role as Aska at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where the concert will take place.

Newell won great acclaim for their performance in the 2018 Broadway revival and won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Shucked. Alex Newell also played the role of Unique Adams in the hit musical series Glee and Mo on Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. Newell will return to London for the concert, following her solo show at London's Cadogan Hall in 2024.

The cast for Once on this Island comprises Dujonna Gift (Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York), Criterion Theatre) as Ti Moune, Melanie La Barrie (Hadestown, Lyric Theatre) as Papa Ge, and Cedric Neal (Guys & Dolls, Bridge Theatre) as Agwe, Jamael Westman as Daniel Beauxhomme, Casey Al-Shaqsy as Andrea Deveraux, Waylon Jacobs as Armand Beauxhomme, Ako Mitchell as Tonton Julian, and Wendy Mae Brown as Mama Euralie. The ensemble includes Elliot Broadfoot, Jerome Lincoln, Lindo Shinda and Tamara Tare. More casting will be announced soon.

Written by the Tony and Olivier-winning team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Once on this Island is a Caribbean inspired retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale The Little Mermaid. It follows a bold and hopeful peasant girl called Ti Moune who falls in love with Daniel, a boy from a world far beyond her own. When destiny shifts, she makes a daring pact with the island gods, embarking on a journey of love, loss, faith, and fearless hope.

Creatives include book & lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty, director Annabel Mutale-Reed, musical director & conductor Jordan Li-Smith, sound design by Harry Greatorex, and casting by Ben Armstrong. The London Musical Theatre Orchestra will perform live in accompaniment.

Once on this Island will perform at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 8 February 2026.

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