CCM MUSICALS SERIES PRESENTS
Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Based Upon The Novel "My Love, My Love" By Rosa Guy
Originally Directed and Choreographed on Broadway by Graciela Daniel
Playwrights Horizons, Inc. Produced ONCE ON THIS ISLAND Off-Braodway In 1990
Originally Production On Broadway By The Shubert Organization, Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.
Suntory International Corporation and James Walsh, In Association With Playwrights Horizons
March 28-30, 2024, Patricia Corbett Theater
*CCM Student
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Once On This Island will last approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes, with no intermission
Torie Wiggins is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with a BFA in Dramatic Performance (now known as Acting) and has been performing professionally for over 20 years. She has co-adapted and performed a one woman show, Your Negro Tour Guide, at various venues across the country. Her film work includes A Christmas Melody, starring and directed by Mariah Carey; The Old Man and the Gun with Robert Redford and Danny Glover and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile starring Zac Efron.
She has performed with many local theatres, appearing on the stages at Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Human Race Theatre Co., Cincinnati Shakespeare Co., and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She has also worked with WAM Theatre in The Berkshires and The Resident Acting Co. in New York City. Torie’s directing credits include productions at The Carnegie Theater, Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Falcon Theatre and The Human Race Theatre Company, and she has worked as an Intimacy Director for the past 5 years. She is an accomplished voiceover artist, having lent her voice to multiple commercials, and most recently, to Broadway’s &Juliet. Also an accomplished playwright, her play Who All Over There was recently produced as a commission at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati in the 2022-2023 subscription series. Her play, Seen, was selected as a finalist for the AGE Legacy Playwriting Grant.
Torie has worked as a professor of acting and other theatre-related classes at Miami University, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Xavier University. She is so excited to be back at her alma mater!
Casey Reed, Music Director
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November 18, 2024
Experience world-class performances by the next generation of performing and media artists at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)! The college’s spring 2025 schedule of major events is now available; tickets are on sale now through the CCM Box Office.
November 14, 2024
UC's College-Conservatory of Music presents Broadway classic Wonderful Town later this month, and CCM faculty member Ian Axness recently appeared on WGUC's Cincinnati Spotlight to discuss the musical.
November 13, 2024
This year, four UC College-Conservatory of Music alumni and one current faculty member are among the nominees named for the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be held in February of 2025. Represented across four categories, the Bearcats specifically named in the Grammy's published list of nominees include CCM Associate Professor of Voice Elliot Madore along with alumni Kevin McCollum (BFA Musical Theatre ’84, HonDoc ’05), Fotina Naumenko (MM Voice ‘12, DMA Voice ‘18), Jeannette Sorrell (MM Orchestral Conducting) and Donald Nally (BM Music Education ‘82).
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