Once On This Island

[Sotiris]

Disney+ Tackling Adaptation of Broadway Musical 'Once On This Island'
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- ... nd-1305121

[UmbrellaFish]

I’ve never seen or listened to Once on This Island, although I know of it. It’s by the team who wrote the songs for Fox’s Anastasia, which has always interested me. I should give it a listen.

Interesting that Disney is going in on adaptations of non-Disney affiliated Broadway musicals. I think this is only their third after Into the Woods, and if you count Babes in Toyland which was based on an operetta. Fourth if you want to count Disney bringing the stage production of Hamilton into the brand.

[Sotiris]

Looks like someone was right on the money. Has that source of yours told you anything else tsom?

I heard from a good source that Disney is looking to adapt Once On This Island as a movie musical, so these TLM rumors (Puerto Rico, Zendaya, etc) may actually be for Once On This Island. Don't quote me, but after speaking to my source, it all makes sense.

Source: viewtopic.php?p=711308#p711308

[blackcauldron85]

Yessssss!!!! I haven't heard the full cast recording, but I've heard some songs. Bring me the musicals, Disney!!

[Sotiris]

Interesting that Disney is going in on adaptations of non-Disney affiliated Broadway musicals. I think this is only their third after Into the Woods, and if you count Babes in Toyland which was based on an operetta. Fourth if you want to count Disney bringing the stage production of Hamilton into the brand.

Disney has adapted more non-Disney stage musicals than that. There's Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, South Pacific, Annie, The Music Man, and Once Upon a Mattress.

[tsom]

Looks like someone was right on the money. Has that source of yours told you anything else tsom?

I heard from a good source that Disney is looking to adapt Once On This Island as a movie musical, so these TLM rumors (Puerto Rico, Zendaya, etc) may actually be for Once On This Island. Don't quote me, but after speaking to my source, it all makes sense.

Source: viewtopic.php?p=711308#p711308

Hahaha. Yessssss Sotiris! Come through with the receipts!

Glad this project is finally coming to fruition, although I'm bummed that it's going to Disney+ instead of theatrical. In my head, Disney+ is where the reject movies go to.

Nahh no new news unfortunately.

[UmbrellaFish]

Interesting that Disney is going in on adaptations of non-Disney affiliated Broadway musicals. I think this is only their third after Into the Woods, and if you count Babes in Toyland which was based on an operetta. Fourth if you want to count Disney bringing the stage production of Hamilton into the brand.

Disney has adapted more non-Disney stage musicals than that. There's Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, South Pacific, Annie, The Music Man, and Once Upon a Mattress.

Those were all TV productions, though. Although I suppose you could argue Disney+ is an extension of that model. I may be wrong, but won’t this be produced by the same studio division that produces their theatrical titles?

[disneyprincess11]

I'm so thrilled this is happening! I saw the very first preview of the Broadway revival and it was magical! I was so excited to see it again in DC this summer

Alex Newell reprising Azula. That's all I want in the cast. He was absolutely robbed from that Tony nomination and win (It was an extremely weird Tony year. ). One of the best performances I've ever seen! And I know Hailey Kilgore, who was great as Ti Moune, was the runner up for Ariel in the live-action. Could this be her chance now?

[Sotiris]

Apparently, this is still happening.

“I thought I was going to be a dancer,” says Bioh, who has written for the “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte,” Spike Lee’s “She’s Gotta Have It” and “Tiny Beautiful Things,” and will next pen the Disney+ live-action film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Once on This Island.” “You don’t really know where your story is leading you.”

Bioh writes stories that center on women, specifically Black immigrant women, and describes her writing style as character-driven narratives grounded in comedic elements. “My center of gravity is comedy,” Bioh says. “It’s important to me that people can be entertained by my work … to feel like they’ve connected with a character they would have never encountered before, have an empathy for them rather than [the] implicit bias they had going into the story.”

Source: https://variety.com/lists/variety-10-sc ... -what-fun/

Q: You are also helming Once On This Island with Disney. What can you share about that process?

Jocelyn Bioh: I can say that the process has been really amazing. I’ve spoken to LaChanze who was in the original production who produced Jaja’s and Kecia Lewis who was also in the original and in Goddess now [she currently can be seen in Hell’s Kitchen on Broadway] about some of the changes and things that I've made to the script. I'm really hopeful it will be on a screen sometime soon and I'm really excited about this kind of fresh update to a story that is so near and dear to so many people.

Source: https://www.theatrely.com/post/jocelyn- ... -keep-busy