The James L. Nederlander and Hunter Arnold-produced present will open on the Marquis Theatre on June 23.
Britney Spears’ largest hits are getting a fairy-tale makeover with the arrival of As soon as Upon a One Extra Time on Broadway.
Produced by Tony winners James L. Nederlander and Hunter Arnold, the musical comedy will open on the Marquis Theatre on June 23 following previews, which start Could 13. Directed and choreographed by Keone and Mari Madrid (Past Babel, Karate Child), the present combines traditional storybook characters — suppose Cinderella, Snow White, Little Mermaid and extra — with hits from Spears’ intensive, award-winning music catalog.
The present is billed as being impressed by music carried out and recorded by Spears, who's in any other case not identified to be concerned. Based on a rep for the manufacturing, all the musical compositions within the present are licensed by way of their publishers with the approval of the songwriters. The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to a lawyer for Spears for remark.
Described as a revisionist fairy story, As soon as Upon a One Extra Time is a “musical journey about claiming your personal fortunately ever after,” in response to the manufacturing. Singles like “Oops I Did It Once more,” “Fortunate,” “Circus” and “Poisonous” function the soundtrack to a fairy-tale ebook membership upended by a rogue fairy godmother, who decides to drop The Female Mystique into the laps of girls who've identified little else outdoors of “bird-made clothes and real love’s kiss.”
With an unique story written by Jon Hartmere (Naked, The Upside), the manufacturing’s inventive crew consists of David Leveaux (9, Romeo and Juliet) as a inventive advisor, scenic designer Anna Fleischle (Hangmen, All people’s Speaking About Jamie), costume and hair designer Loren Elstein (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Lifeless), lighting designer Kenneth Posner (Depraved, Beetlejuice), sound designer Andrew Keister (KPOP, On Your Toes!) and projection designer Sven Ortel (Newsies).
The present was initially slated for a pre-Broadway run in Chicago in 2019 on the James M. Nederlander Theatre, however delayed its opening to spring 2020. In March, the pandemic shut down theaters throughout the nation, with producers deciding to cancel the present’s Chicago engagement.
As soon as Upon a One Extra Time would make its world premiere in December 2021 at Washington D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre Firm, the place it will definitely prolonged its restricted engagement from Jan. 3 to 9 resulting from demand.
Spears, who just isn't credited as a part of the inventive or producer crew, was current for an early studying in 2019 in response to The Washington Put up. Forward of the musical’s deserted Chicago run, throughout which Spears was nonetheless in her now-ended 13-year conservatorship, Playbill reported that the pop icon referred to as the manufacturing “a dream come true for me.”
“I’m so excited to have a musical with my songs — particularly one which takes place in such a magical world stuffed with characters that I grew up on, who I like and adore,” she continued in an announcement on the time.
Earlier than the musical’s D.C. run in 2021, Hartmere mentioned he was “given entry to all of Spears’s songs,” in response to an interview with the Put up. “The one factor I used to be informed was that she loves fairies,” he mentioned of Spears. “And I used to be like, ‘That’s it, that’s what we’ve obtained to go on.'”
“I knew the songs that everyone else knew,” he added. “I didn’t know the deep cuts. She actually has a music [called] ‘Cinderella.’ I used to be like, ‘All proper, I've to do that.'”
The information comes on the pop icon’s forty first birthday.