The Britney Spears Musical Will Premiere in DC on November 30 and It Sounds Absolutely Bananas
Once Upon a One More Time will get its pre-Broadway run at Shakespeare Theatre Company.
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She’s so lucky: DC will be the star city that hosts the premiere of Britney Spears musical
Once Upon a One More Time. Shakespeare Theatre Company announced the news that it will produce the show’s pre-Broadway run starting in November as a family-friendly holiday offering.
The show marries Spears hits (including “Toxic,” “Stronger,” and “Oops! I Did It Again”) with traditional fairytale characters, and was created by Jon Hartmere, who co-wrote the off-Broadway rock musical
DC Theater Reopenings: What We Know So Far
Live performances are coming back. Here s the when, where, and how.
Woolly Mammoth’s performance space. Photograph courtesy of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
Stages dark, actors scattered, and plays cancelled, postponed, or reimagined as Zoom productions: This has been the bleak reality for DC’s theater scene during the past 14 months. Though some mainstays like Shakespeare Theatre Company and GALA Hispanic Theatre were able to secure waivers from the mayor to host occasional outdoor and/or socially distant performances, most theaters pivoted to online formats and scrambled to find creative ways to keep their audiences (safely) engaged. But Washington’s stages are finally preparing for IRL shows once again. Here’s what we know so far.
The trailer for the movie version of the musical
Dear Evan Hansen dropped yesterday, and the internet was abuzz. The show, which follows a lonely teenager caught in a complicated situation after one of his classmates dies by suicide, is an international sensation and multiple Tony award winner.
But, let’s not forget, it also started in DC. The show originally premiered at Arena Stage in 2015 before moving to Broadway the next year.
Pitch Perfect’s Ben Platt played Evan Hansen in the original version (for which he won a Tony), and he will return as the title character in the movie adaptation. Amy Adams and Julianne Moore will be in the film version, too.