Broadway show once reviews

        1. Broadway show once reviews

          2. Once,” based on a hit movie about two musicians, an Irishman and a Czech, who fall in love, reaches Broadway after an Off Broadway run....

          The acting, the songs, the sets, and the costumes were all terrific.

        2. The acting, the songs, the sets, and the costumes were all terrific.
        3. It didn't really have much lasting effect on musical theater at all, aside from having a good run and winning several awards.
        4. Once,” based on a hit movie about two musicians, an Irishman and a Czech, who fall in love, reaches Broadway after an Off Broadway run.
        5. Www.tripadvisor.com › › Once - A New Musical.
        6. The story is amazing!

          7. ‘Once’ on Broadway (Final Show): Event Review

          Once closed on Broadway yesterday with all the bittersweet energy of a band’s last charge. The cast, which doubles as the band, delivered plaintively passionate performances to an audience that brimmed with teary-eyed devotees.

          And me. I was the sole attendee, crouched in the third mezzanine, who came with virtually no knowledge of the show or its source material.

          Emotionally captivating and theatrically breathtaking, Once draws you in from the very first note and never lets go.

          I did not know that Once won Best Musical – and 7 other Tony Awards – in 2012, or that it won Best Musical Theatre Album at the Grammy Awards in 2013.

          I did not know that John Tiffany directed, that Edna Walsh wrote the book, or that Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, who star in the John Carney’s indie motion picture, Once, penned the music and lyrics for the musical adaptation.

          The only knowledge that I had was a vague recollection of The Swell Season’s Academy Award-winning song, “Falling Slowly,” from 2007. That said, I am a smart theatergoer, and my experience of Once the musical likely differs from most fans of the show.

          Clearly, th