Selling ONCE on its music (which lets them add Oscar and Grammy to the Tony and Oliviers they won) is a smart move. I hope it's not too late to save the show, but the new ad campaign is dynamic and appealing.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.