BROADWAY REVIEW: Oops! Awful Britney Spears jukebox show ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ is waste of pop star’s music
The truly awful “Once Upon a One More Time,” which opened on Broadway Thursday night at the Marriott Marquis Theatre under the “creative consultancy” of David Leveaux, is not that musical. Instead, it tries to cash in on the repetitive fashion of the moralistic musical moment and uses Spears’ songs as a way to critique and deconstruct “problematic” fairy tales.
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