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BROADWAY REVIEW: Oops! Awful Britney Spears jukebox show ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ is waste of pop star’s music

A review of Once Upon a One More Time by Chris Jones | June 22, 2023

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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Ran Xia | December 20, 2022

One of them paved a path of his own ascending to artistic godhood by glorifying the mundane; the other painted SAMO (meaning the Same Old Sh*t) criticizing the very idea of repetition. One of them broke down the wall between art and business; for the other, walls didn’t mean a thing. One saw beauty, immortality, […]

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Complex Men and Caricatures of Women Are Caught ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’

Bedatri D.Choudhury | December 19, 2022

Walter “Pops” Washington, as he self-describes in Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Pulitzer-winning play Between Riverside and Crazy, is “a flesh and blood, pee standing up, registered Republican.” He is also a litigious former cop caught within the crossroads of bureaucracy, racism, life as a widower, and a fast-gentrifying Riverside Drive. He also happens to be Black. […]

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