By the time of closing, the musical will have played 1,167 regular performances and 22 previews.
The most-awarded show of the 2012 New York theatre season, Once won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The production also won Best Musical from the New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards as well as the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
An Australian production of Once recently opened in Melbourne, and later this year the U.S. tour will play a multi-week engagement in Japan, commencing in late November. The first non-English language production will open in Seoul, South Korea in December. A Toronto production will open in February 2015.
Also in development are productions in Sweden, Brazil, Holland, Greece, The Czech Republic, Thailand and Ireland as well as a Japanese-language production.
Based on the 2007 Academy Award-winning film, Once opened to critical acclaim March 18, 2012, following engagements at New York Theatre Workshop and in Cambridge, MA. Once features a book by award-winning Irish playwright and screenwriter Enda Walsh, the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, direction by John Tiffany, movement by Steven Hoggett and music supervision and orchestrations by Martin Lowe.
The current cast of Once on Broadway features Paul Alexander Nolan as Guy and Jessie Fisher as Girl with Laurel Griggs, David Patrick Kelly, Sophie Knapp, Katrina Lenk, Anne L. Nathan, Lucas Papaelias, Scott Stangland, Andy Taylor, Ryan Vona, Erikka Walsh, Paul Whitty and J. Michael Zygo.
Once is also playing in London's West End at the Phoenix Theatre, where it opened April 9, 2013, after premiering to critical acclaim in Dublin, Ireland in February 2013.
Once will complete its run in the West End March 21, 2015, prior to going on a European tour. Ronan Keating will play Guy and Jill Winternitz will play Girl from Nov. 17 to the end of the engagement. The London production of Once won two 2014 Olivier Awards.
Once is also playing in cities across the country on a U.S. national tour which was launched in Fall 2013.
"Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, Once," according to press notes, "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."
Once is produced on Broadway 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.
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