ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME Broadway Previews Thread

Surely a new musical starting previews on Broadway deserves a thread of its own, rather than being lumped in with the pre-Broadway DC run (the comments about which may no longer be relevant to this production)?

From EDSOSLO858 in the DC thread:

"Britney Army… get ready to scream, and shout, and let it all out!

Once Upon a One More Time begins previews tomorrow (May 13) at the Marquis Theatre before a June 22 opening night. The jukebox musical features songs from Britney Spears’s catalog, and a book by Jon Hartmere that reimagines the happy endings for six iconic storybook princesses. Once Upon a One More Time is directed and choreographed by award-winning couple Keone and Mari Madrid; the principal cast features Briga Heelan, Justin Guarini, Jennifer Simard, Adam Godley, Brooke Dillman, Aisha Jackson, Ryann Redmond, and Tess Soltau.

“When our storybook heroines gather for book club, they always discuss the same book, Grimms’ Fairy Tales — because as far as they know, it’s the only book that’s ever been written. That’s until a rogue fairy godmother drops The Feminine Mystique into their corseted laps. From now on, ‘happily ever after’ will never be the same. Once Upon a One More Time weaves the chart-topping hits of the undisputed Princess of Pop, Britney Spears, into a brand-new kind of fairy tale.”

Who-o-o’s gonna go-o-o?"

Can people please post their thoughts in the ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME Pre-Broadway Tryout - Previews & Reviews thread where there's been ongoing discussion since 2021? 

jacobsnchz14 does a great job of naming these threads so that everyone's thoughts on these shows can be easily located in one place. 

mar6411 said: "Except that then he renames them so it you’re searching you can’t find them. It appears to be some contest to be first and have some leadership sense on the board.

And, for me, having pages and pages of stuff unrelated to previews or reviews is annoying.

But to each his own and obviously there is disagreement"

 

Updated On: 5/12/23 at 09:28 AM

Seeing the first preview tomorrow, cant wait

I’m going to the last preview. So excited!!!

At this point, I have read y’all’s input and am just gonna take it easy or allow others to contribute however they would like until I find a more digestible approach. Because over the years, there were always comments re: too many threads about the same show so I took it upon myself to consolidate everything if I initiated a thread. Which is why with some shows, for example, there could have been (on a single page) multiple potential threads on the board about press reviews, a closing, and potentially any members’ reviews and thoughts, on top of other just news and cast album related things. That’s where the re-naming of threads came from. It never occurred that it could be interpreted as being sus. And if a tryout was transferring, it would be renamed to Broadway to help someone in case they were to ask what people’s reaction were to the tryout but still within a Broadway thread/single tab on a browser. It could have also probably been linked, bumped, whatever, in hindsight but that doesn’t matter at this point. I’m very good at checking for news and press releases throughout a day during my regular job and just create the threads and initiate and engage in the conversations. I started to get the hint during the night of Camelot’s opening when MemorableUserName and I both had threads and they appeared to be being updated by each of us at the same time with the same reviews. So I have intentionally tried to take a step back when it was a thread relating to a currently running show or one that I had created about another topic. I’ve created a thread and never looked at it again sometimes. It happens. Bad Cinderella’s closing was already being discussed in my initial thread, so I renamed it to the closing when the press release came out. I was under the assumption that this was no different than the great long-running and consolidated threads we’ve had on Chicago Appreciation or recasting threads, or any long threads of that nature devoted to a single show. Is this a womp-womp, I’ve been bullied, victimized post? No. And it’s gone on longer than I wanted because I’m just an overthinker and word vomit is happening because words on a screen can have loose threads that I don’t like unless there’s context. Anyway, all that to say: sorry, I didn’t know, go about it how you wish, I just want to start conversations, and I can’t wait to see OUAOMT because I need more uplifting fun shows in addition to the thought-provoking and artisan shows. 

Updated On: 5/13/23 at 01:35 AM

Curtain Call from last night’s dress rehearsal! WOW! That choreography is incredible! 
 

https://youtu.be/fRm9PIr4TCo

For what it’s worth jacobsnchz14, I see no issue with you doing business as usual, but maybe with an update in the title instead of changing? Like “Bad Cinderella - P/Reviews (UPDATE: CLOSING) or something like that? 
 

“If we want to see the response a show received in previews, we shouldn't have to dig through eight pages on the pre-Broadway engagement to find them. Similarly if we want to read reactions to the show after it's been frozen, we shouldn't need to read all the preview comments that may not be relevant to the final show people are seeing”

You can’t go off of the dates or comments/posts? That’s always how I’ve done it with the long-running thread.

That curtain call video looks amazing. The first one was very, very corny and the costumes looked cheap. Looks like they have completely elevated overall. Excited to see it tonight, will post updates at intermission 

Wait...these costumes are BETTER? I thought they were ghastly....but I only have this video to judge by....perhaps in context they are terrific.