NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ONCE,
winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, has been
nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater
Album. Produced by Stephen
Epstein & Martin Lowe,
the Original Broadway Cast Recording of ONCE is
available now via MASTERWORKS BROADWAY.
ONCE won eight Tony Awards including Best
Musical. The production was also named Best Musical by the
New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer
Critic Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards.
ONCE features a book by award-winning Irish
playwright & screenwriter, Enda
Walsh (Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric
Ballroom), the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of
Glen Hansard and Marketa
Irglova, direction by the acclaimed John Tiffany (Black Watch), movement
by Steven Hoggett (Black
Watch, American Idiot) and music supervision and orchestrations
by Martin Lowe (Mamma
Mia!).
The set and costume design are by six time Tony Award winner
Bob Crowley (The Coast of
Utopia, Mary Poppins), lighting
design is by three time Tony winner Natasha Katz (Aida, The Coast of
Utopia), and sound design is by Clive Goodwin.
ONCE will begin a US national tour launched by The
Road Company in the summer of 2013.
The cast of ONCE features Steve Kazee as 'Guy' and Cristin Milioti as 'Girl.' Also in the
company are David Abeles, Will Connolly, Elizabeth A. Davis, David Patrick Kelly, Jillian Lebling, Eliza
Holland Madore, Anne L.
Nathan, Lucas Papaelias, Andy Taylor, Erikka Walsh, Paul
Whitty, and J. Michael
Zygo.
Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play
their own instruments onstage, ONCE tells the
enchanting tale of a Dublin street
musician who's about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young
woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs. As the
chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new
heights... but their unlikely connection turns out to be deeper and
more complex than your everyday romance. Emotionally captivating
and theatrically breathtaking, ONCE draws you in from
the very first note and never lets go. It's an unforgettable story
about going for your dreams and the power of music to connect us
all.
The 2007 Academy Award-winning film, ONCE, was
written and directed by John
Carney, and starred Glen
Hansard and Marketa Irglova, with original music
and lyrics by Mr. Hansard and Ms. Irglova.
The Oscar winning independent Irish film, Once was made
for $150,000. Shot in 17 days, it
went on to gross $20M worldwide
becoming a critically acclaimed international smash. It stars
Glen Hansard, from the popular
Irish Rock band The Frames,
and Marketa Irglova. Glen and Marketa won the 2007 Academy
Award for Best Original song for "Falling Slowly," the Los
Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Music, and the soundtrack
was nominated for two Grammy Awards.
ONCE was originally developed at the American
Repertory Theater (Cambridge,
Massachusetts) in April 2011;
Diane Paulus, Artistic Director;
Diane Borger, Producer.
A developmental run of ONCE at New York Theatre
Workshop (James C. Nicola and
William Russo) began
performances on November 15, 2011 and
opened December 6. The production broke box office records
and concluded a sold out engagement including a two week extension
through January 15th,
2012.
ONCE is produced by Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf, The Shubert Organization
and Executive Producer Robert
Cole, in association with New York Theatre
Workshop.
Tickets for the Broadway production are now on sale via
Telecharge.com or by phone at 212-239-6200.
Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Masterworks. For
email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit
www.masterworksbroadway.com. For more information on the
musical, please visit www.oncemusical.com.
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