Once

Once, the Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2012, tells a story of passion for music, heartbreak, intimacies, and wonder about the future. The musical, based on the 2007 film of the same name by John Carney, won eight Tony Awards. The Broadway cast album won a Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album.

Once, set in Ireland, features a cast who are also the show’s musicians and speak with Irish and Czech accents. The plot follows the relationship between Guy, a street performer who is a songwriting guitar player, and Girl, whose encouragement and appreciation of Guy’s music lifts his spirits when he wants to quit music. As the friends develop feelings for one another, they make decisions of the heart that will keep the audience guessing about happy endings.

Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times, “The songs … soar with rough-edged, sweet-and-sad ambivalence that is seldom visited in contemporary American musicals.” In his London Theatre Guide review of the West End production, Peter Brown wrote, “Almost from the first note, you realize you are listening to music that is extraordinarily distinctive, powerfully emotional, and hugely affecting – in a word … stunning.”

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