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Once
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Book
Enda Walsh
Music & Lyrics
Glen Hansard
Marketa IrglovaBased on the Motion Picture Written & Directed by
John Carney
Director
John Tiffany
A musical adaptation of the widely successful Oscar-winning film. Set in Dublin, Once is the story of a busker who falls in love with a fellow musician from the Czech Republic. An unrequited love story that became the most successful indie musical in recent years.
Barbara Broccoli, James Bond franchise, and Fred Zollo, the Oscar-nominated producer of Mississippi Burning and Quiz Show and the record-breaking Broadway show, A Steady Rain, are co-producing.
Once opened in the Fall of 2011 at the New York Theatre Workshop. Once officially opened on March 18th, 2012 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Broadway. Once was recently nominated for a total of 11 Tony Awards, the most of any play or musical, including Best Musical, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Steve Kazee), Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Cristin Milioto), Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Elizabeth A. Davis), Best Direction of a Musical and Best Book of a Musical.
You can purchase tickets at www.oncemusical.com
“Fresh and unexpected. A love affair with music, ONCE delivers an original interior view of its characters. They become genuinely conflicted, with distinctive personalities instead of standard-issue ones. The songs by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova soar, and as anyone knows who saw BLACK WATCH, John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett are masters of surprising stagecraft.”
— The New York Times“In ONCE, love, music and life merge into an organic whole. It’s the rare stage adaptation that makes total sense: as unabashedly romantic, funny, passionate and sad as you dreamed it would be.”
— The New York Post“An exquisite reminder of theater’s singular capacity to enchant and transport us.”
— The Hollywood Reporter“Magical. rapturously tender and vividly theatrical, once speaks to the power of making music and friendships. Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti are enchanting leads. Kazee is perfect as the wistful songwriter, and Milioti is a revelation.”
— The Daily News“ONCE’s inventiveness hits you even before it starts. The sweetness, the charm, and the deceptively addictive songs by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova are ready as ever to claim the heart.”
— The Associated Press“Gorgeous. A rare combination of intelligence, warmth and musicality.”
— Bloomberg“It’s hard not to fall for once. In John Tiffany's meticulous production, songs are rendered stirringly and soulfully, and brought home with lush string and piano arrangements by Martin Lowe.”
— The Huffington Post"A beautifully intimate, sweet, and deeply moving musical anchored by two marvelous leads, stirring music and a pitch-perfect production. Do what you must to finagle a ticket to ONCE. How often does a musical allow you both a tingle of excitement as well as deep emotion? Only once in a great while.”
— The Huffington PostGlen Hansard
Glen formed the group The Frames in 1990, and they've been staples of the Irish music scene ever since. Their first album, Another Love Song, was released on Island Records in 1991.
In 2006, he released his first album without The Frames, The Swell Season, in collaboration with his co-star from Once, the Czech singer Markéta Irglová.
The song "Falling Slowly" won an Oscar for Best Song in February 2008. Hansard became the first Irish-born person to win in that category. Hansard and Irglová also recorded a version of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" for the film I'm Not There in 2007.
A new album of original songs recorded as The Swell Season with Markéta and entitled Strict Joy was released in October, 2009.
Markéta Irglová
Markéta started playing music at the age of seven. In 2007 she starred, along with Glen Hansard in Once, under the direction of John Carney. Irglová and Hansard wrote the lyrics for the songs featured in the movie. The film received an award from World Cinema Audience in Sundance Film Festival of 2007.
Markéta won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Falling Slowly". She is the first Czech woman to receive an Oscar and also the youngest (19 years) to do so in the category of music. Irglová along with Hansard performed a live version of the song at the Oscars in Los Angeles on 24th February, 2008.
Markéta is currently touring with Glen Hansard and The Frames as a member of The Swell Season.
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