ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME Broadway Previews Thread — Page 3

This is by the far LOUDEST show I have ever seen on Broadway... It's blaring, bright, bold, blinding, and brash, and I don't mean any of those things as compliments. Jesse Green opened his Bad Cinderella review saying you needed ear plugs, eye plugs, and soul plugs for the show, but Bad Cinderella is tame compared to Once Upon A One More Time. It's an outright assault on all the senses.

The sound is cranked up all the way. The orchestra blares through the speakers at ear splitting levels and often drowns out the singing. It's a good thing we already know most of these lyrics since 90% of them are unintelligible and garbled. Bright lights are constantly shown directly into the audience's eyes.

The physical production has been beefed up since DC and while it has some pretty moments, it mainly looks pretty damn cheap for a Broadway show. The choreography is the best part of the show. It's high energy, intricate, complex, and very well executed by the cast. There's A LOT of long book scenes between songs, and act 2 plods along at a pretty slow pace and gets bogged down with the "rewrite your story" theme that gets beaten to death.

All in all, this is one of the brashest shows I’ve seen on Broadway. I can’t stress enough just how freaking **loud** this show is (both audibly AND visually). If you’re sensitive to loud music or bright lights, definitely steer clear of this one. I can easily see this show finding an audience of younger theatregoers, but whether or not that audience will be large enough to sustain a healthy run after the inevitable critical drubbing this show has coming its way remains to be seen.

pablitonizer said: "theaterdrew said: "‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Musical Authorized by Britney Spears, License Negotiated Post-Conservatorship

I didn't figure they'd have plastered her name everywhere otherwise."

Of course there is no way the musical could have continued without her approval. Her name is on the marquee

"

That isn't true. When she was under the conservatorship, her father and team could make financial and business decisions without her approval. That is why a lot of fans are not happy with this show (you can read the comments on Instagram, which the show seems to be cleaning up). This is where the whole Free Britney thing even came from, because she wasn't even allowed to drive, let alone make these kinds of decions.

B.JAMES said: "pablitonizer said: "theaterdrew said: "‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Musical Authorized by Britney Spears, License Negotiated Post-Conservatorship

I didn't figure they'd have plastered her name everywhere otherwise."

Of course there is no way the musical could have continued without her approval. Her name is on the marquee

"

That isn't true. When she was under the conservatorship, her father and team could make financial and business decisions without her approval. That is why a lot of fans are not happy with this show (you can read the comments on Instagram, which the show seems to be cleaning up). This is where the whole Free Britney thing even came from, because she wasn't even allowed to drive, let alone make these kinds of decions."

LOL u think Broadway veteran Jame L Nederlander would lie about this knowing he can be sued? LOL I believe you're aware once the c-ship ended, most likely her lawyer had to work out a lot issues around her career and contracts. One of them being this musical. If she did not want this, there's no way they could used her name on the marquee and marketing. Perhaps it's pretty hard for some fans to believe Britney could actually like this musical post-conservartorship. She's making money off this show as she's co-writer in some of the songs. She's not actively working so it makes a lot of sense she decided to continue with this musical. Any decision she's been making since Nov 2021 it's up to her luckily.

JasonC3 said: "Does this show end up having more of a concert vibe where audience members feel inclined to sing and sway at times?"

Surprisingly, no. The audience was very well behaved - more well behaved than I have seen at most jukebox musicals (or most musicals for that matter!). No phones out, no singing along, talking etc. They were definitely enthusiastic and energetic, but never to the point of being obnoxious.

pablitonizer said: "B.JAMES said: "pablitonizer said: "theaterdrew said: "‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Musical Authorized by Britney Spears, License Negotiated Post-Conservatorship

I didn't figure they'd have plastered her name everywhere otherwise."

Of course there is no way the musical could have continued without her approval. Her name is on the marquee

"

That isn't true. When she was under the conservatorship, her father and team could make financial and business decisions without her approval. That is why a lot of fans are not happy with this show (you can read the comments on Instagram, which the show seems to be cleaning up). This is where the whole Free Britney thing even came from, because she wasn't even allowed to drive, let alone make these kinds of decions."

LOL u think Broadway veteran Jame L Nederlander would lie about this knowing he can be sued? LOL I believe you're aware once the c-ship ended, most likely her lawyer had to work out a lot issues around her career and contracts. One of them being this musical. If she did not want this, there's no way they could used her name on the marquee and marketing. Perhaps it's pretty hard for some fans to believe Britney could actually like this musical post-conservartorship. She's making money off this show as she's co-writer in some of the songs. She's not actively working so it makes a lot of sense she decided to continue with this musical. Any decision she's been making since Nov 2021 it's up to her luckily."

I was not implying that she was not aware. I am just referring back to the situation she was in and what her rights were for years. Just this morning I read an article that she was on board.

As a massive fan for years, I was actually excited about a jukebox musical for once, so of course I was hoping she was involved.

Britney Spears Authorized Once Upon a One More Time Broadway Musical – The Hollywood Reporter

Updated On: 5/16/23 at 01:59 PM

I’m glad that I waited a little bit to review this from seeing this last night. I walked out HATING it with a passion, but that has mostly cooled now.


It is just LOUD like the previous poster said. The music sounds like it is coming from the ****tiest bar speakers known to man. You can’t hear the vocals to save your life and it’s embarrassing that I can’t understand the words to songs that I know by heart. Fix the sound mixing and I will be a lot more forgiving about the other parts.


I do agree that the audience was wonderful and that was part of what I was worried about too. I don’t know. I’m going to give it another chance once they fix the sound mixing. Though, I also didn’t like the set either. Way too bright and almost assaulting too. lol

B.JAMES said: "pablitonizer said: "theaterdrew said: "‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Musical Authorized by Britney Spears, License Negotiated Post-Conservatorship

I didn't figure they'd have plastered her name everywhere otherwise."

Of course there is no way the musical could have continued without her approval. Her name is on the marquee

"

That isn't true. When she was under the conservatorship, her father and team could make financial and business decisions without her approval. That is why a lot of fans are not happy with this show (you can read the comments on Instagram, which the show seems to be cleaning up). This is where the whole Free Britney thing even came from, because she wasn't even allowed to drive, let alone make these kinds of decions."

Now that she's out of the conservatorship, these Free Britney "fans" refuse to believe she's actually making her own decisions and even send police TO HER HOME BECAUSE THEY WERE CONVINCED SHE'S DEAD AND BEEN CLONED. These people (and seems you may be one of them) refuse reason, even when a sanctioned statement is put out by the production in The Hollywood Reporter of all places. As another person already said, there is zero chance they would have put out this without having her blessing. And the woman has a trademark on her name (and has for decades), so to use it in advertising, she would have had to have given permission.

Get. A. Grip. Touch some grass.

Is anyone planning to see it more than once? I would honestly love to see how they smooth out Act 2 because that sh*t feels R U S H E D. The only other thing I would like them to fix are Snow White's jokes. Otherwise, I feel like the show is already in very good shape.

Also the Little Mermaid character is so f***king hilarious without even saying a word.

HunterK said: "Just adding my 2 cents..I went last night and had a freaking blast. Walking in I had zero expectations and walked out smiling and enjoying the 2+ hours with my friend. Yes it was loud, but it was a heck of a lot of fun. The choreography is some of the best I had ever seen on the stage. And it is executed perfectly! That ensemble is killing it. Justin Guarini can move!! Honestly, those moves are still in my head. The other stand out was Jennifer Simard. She stole the show every time she walked on that stage (I expect nothing less of her). Just perfection. To give her "Toxic" was genius.

I was sitting in Row Q of the orchestra and at times it was Loud, but could hear their voices and lyrics. Truly loved the cast. It's not the next broadway blockbuster, but it was a darn good time at the theatre and it was well needed. That audience loved every minute. I wish them nothing but the best for their run."

How can be so sure it won't the next broadway blockbuster? I honestly see it doing MJ numbers, it's Britney. I mean, every human being in the universe knows at least 1 Britney song, same with Michael Jackson. I saw the DC tryout and it was already a blast! I got tickets for June, and I saw a bit of Jennifer's performance of Toxic, I would say O M F G, I was blown away!

Where are the throngs of BS fans? It doesn't appear to be selling that well on Telecharge.

Sadly, many people dont even know about it. I was out with NYC gays last weekend and told them I was seeing "the britney spears musical" and everyone said "the what?!"

Lola Getz2 said: "Where are the throngs of BS fans? It doesn't appear to be selling that well on Telecharge."

It's on ticketmaster, and Monday and Tuesday say otherwise