Once
Opening Night: March 18, 2012
Closing: January 4, 2015
Theater: Bernard B. Jacobs
On the streets of Dublin, an Irish musician (Guy) and a Czech immigrant (Girl) are drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, an unexpected friendship and collaboration quickly evolves into a powerful but complicated love story, underscored by the emotionally charged music that has made Once an international sensation.
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March 18, 2012
Sometimes how cool you look depends on where you’re standing. When I first saw the musical “Once” at the New York Theater Workshop last December, it registered as a little too twee, too conventionally sentimental, for the East Village. Yet on Broadway — at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater to be exact, where “Once” opened on Sunday night — what is essentially the same production feels as vital and surprising as the early spring that has crept up on Manhattan.
READ THE REVIEWMarch 18, 2012
The party has already started by the time you enter the Broadway theater to see the musical "Once." The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre’s stage is filled with musicians jamming to Irish tunes in what looks like a Dublin pub. Real drinks are offered to the brave theatergoers willing to go up and mingle.
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March 18, 2012
A Sundance discovery and a breakout hit for Fox Searchlight in 2007, the Irish indie movie has become a captivating Broadway musical, with a superb cast of actor-musicians led by Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti.
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March 18, 2012
Broadway musicals spawned from movies are usually big, brash, bawdy affairs — think “Sister Act” and “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” two giddy disco balls launched last season.
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It is hard not to oversell the wonderful strangeness of "Once," the enchanting little musical that moved to Broadway after a winter run at the New York Theatre Workshop.
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