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Disney’s isn’t the only recent musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid.” Public-domain original, adapted and transplanted to Caribbean by Trinidadian novelist Rosa Guy in 1985, became 1990 Broadway tuner “Once on This Island.” Road company is now playing Los Angeles; 90-minute show, suitable family entertainment, is a delightful and colorful blend of nonstop singing and dancing, held together by the thinnest web of a plot.

Ti Moune (Vanita Harbour), an unlettered rustic, saves aristocratic Daniel (Darius de Haas), who lies dying after a car crash and develops a crush on him.

Daniel, alas, is engaged to socialite Andrea (Monique Cintron); besides, dark-skinned Ti Moune is beneath light-skinned Daniel’s station — though Ti Moune may, Andrea informs her, dance at their wedding.

Story was inspired by author Guy’s experience in Haiti, where population claiming parti