Once Upon A One More Time [Britney Jukebox Musical]

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Unlike many jukebox musicals, this show will not be about Ms. Spears’s life (which has not been a fairy tale), but instead will offer a revisionist look at some legendary characters. In the show, a fortnightly book club whose members include Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty, is working its way through a collection of the Grimms’ fairy tales — the only book they have. But when the women wish for new reading material, a fairy godmother brings them Ms. Friedan’s feminist classic, “The Feminine Mystique,” and their lives are altered in unexpected ways.

“Cinderella is having an existential crisis, and she has a posse of famous princesses, and her stepmother is the main antagonist, and there’s also Prince Charming and a dwarf we’ve never met — the eighth dwarf — and a narrator who is unhappy his system is being dismantled before his eyes,” said the bookwriter, Jon Hartmere, who wrote the screenplay for “The Upside” and was one of the writers of “Bare,” a musical about gay Christian teenagers.

“These women have been in this hermetically sealed world, and then they start to get deeper into modern ideas — second and third-wave feminism — and also explore how stories are passed down to us, and where we get our norms from. But it’s also superfun and funny.”

The project has already had several readings — one of them attended by Ms. Spears — and will have a developmental workshop next month, Mr. Hartmere said. He said the score currently includes 23 songs from Ms. Spears’s catalog, including most of her big hits, as well as “a couple of deep album cuts.”

Sounds... interesting :)
 
This AS WELL as the Max Martin musical “... And Juliet”? That is going to feature Britney songs.

I thought certain songs couldn’t be licensed out to several shows or something like that. Didn’t Sister Act have issues because of Motown The Musical or something like that?
 
I think that was just Motown refusing to grant the rights because they were working on their own show
 
This has just had its first out-of-town performance and the early buzz is POSITIVE!

The included songs in alphabetical order:

(You Drive Me) Crazy
...Baby One More Time
Boys
Cinderella
Circus
Everytime
From The Bottom of My Broken Heart
I Wanna Go
I'm A Slave 4 U
If I'm Dancing
Lucky
Make Me... (feat. G-Eazy)
Oops!... I Did It Again
Passenger
Piece Of Me
Pretty Girls
Scream & Shout
Sometimes
Stronger
Till The World Ends
Toxic
Womanizer
Work B*tch
 
If I'm Dancing! :D:disco:

Anyway talk about something having GOOD TIMING on its side
 

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