Posts Tagged ‘Glen Hansard’
ONCE
Sunday, October 13th, 2019You may have seen it once on Broadway, and once more when its National Tour played locally, and once more still when South Coast Repertory debuted it regionally, but forget all those Onces. If you haven’t seen the Tony-winning Best Musical of 2012 restaged in the round by the brilliantly inventive Kari Hayter for 3-D Theatricals, you haven’t yet experienced the full musical-theater wonder that is Once.
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ONCE
Monday, September 11th, 2017Take one of the best (and quite possibly the most original) Broadway smashes of the past decade, cast it with some of SoCal’s most gifted actor-singer-musicians, give it a fresh new staging that may actually improve on the Broadway original, and you’ve got Once, as thrilling a South Coast Repertory season opener as any musical theater lover could wish for.
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ONCE
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014Sometimes execution can be everything. It certainly is in the case of Once, the multiple Tony-winning Best Musical of 2012. The story and the songs are the same as those in the film on which it is based (a movie I found quite unbearable), and yet as brought to freshly inspired life on the musical theater stage, Once The Musical turns out to be one of the best, and quite possibly the most original Broadway smashes, of the past decade.
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