2025 Summer Schedule and upcoming show season details below!

Once on the Island is a most beautiful story about how a young girl changes an island, leaving it forever unified in love. The Broadway music is legendary for its lush, gorgeous melodies and articulate lyrics blended into harmonies that tear at the heartstrings. What a joyful musical for audiences of all ages.

The Ruhala Broadway Ensemble brings this story to life with 13 talented performers that have developed themselves through the unique Ruhala approach to theatre. 

Jeff English leads an all-star band including Jeff Shoup, Reuben Stump, & Dan Ingman. 

Ruhala Holistic Arts Center offers both group classes and private instruction and guided one-on-one sessions for all ages. Ruhala also offers advanced Broadway Musical Theatre & Acting Ensembles that focus on training and public performances. Performing arts dance classes include Ballet, Tap, Jazz, & Modern specializing in Broadway styles. Singing classes are offered in Glee Broadway music and Private Lessons for singers of all styles. Acting classes offered are Acting 101, Improv! and advanced acting technique classes. In the Healing Arts, Ruhala offers Reiki energy sessions, Brain/Body Balance sessions, Mental Toughness sessions, and one-on one intuitively guided sessions for individual empowerment. 

All of our work is individual centered, i.e., we take the individual, whether child, teen, or adult, from where they are at, and assist their development. Our focus is holistic, always looking at the whole child or person and guiding individuals to reach their best. Healing and art go hand in hand as the Montefiore Medical Center states, “The healing arts are creative practices that promote healing, wellness, coping and personal change”. Ruhala aims to engage children and adults in creative processes that inspire and motivate health and wellness, be it in performing classes or therapeutic sessions. 

Celina and Mark Ruhala have been co-creating these programs for over twenty years in New York, and more recently in East Lansing. Bringing Broadway experience along with personal growth development and education, Celina and Mark are ever passionate about their work and share great enthusiasm to the people they work with. With a reputation for excellence, they always are growing, expanding, and learning themselves, especially from their students and clients. 

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We care about your wellness on and off the stage!

Namaste,

Celina & Mark Ruhala

Owner Directors