ONCE, winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will play the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts for a limited engagement from December 1 - 6. Presented by Broadway Series South, tickets for ONCE are available now to 2015-16 Season Subscribers and can be purchased by calling (919) 831-6941 ext. 6944.
ONCE, which was also named Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and
Lucille Lortel Awards, ran for more than 1,100 performances on Broadway with acclaimed international productions from London and Melbourne to Japan and South Korea.
ONCE features the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a book by award-winning Irish playwright & screenwriter,
Enda Walsh (Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric Ballroom), direction by the acclaimed Scottish director of Black Watch,
John Tiffany, 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 five time Tony Award winner
Bob Crowley (The Coast of Utopia, Mary Poppins), lighting design is by Tony winner
Natasha Katz (Aida, The Coast of Utopia), and sound design is by
Clive Goodwin.
ONCE is the celebrated new musical based on the Academy Award-winning film. It tells the story of an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, their unexpected friendship and collaboration evolves into a powerful but complicated romance, heightened by the raw emotion of the songs they create together. Brought to the stage by an award-winning team of visionary artists and featuring an ensemble cast of gifted actor/musicians, ONCE is a musical celebration of life and love: thrilling in its originality, daring in its honesty... and unforgettable in every way.
The 2007 Academy Award-winning film, ONCE, was written and directed by John Carney, and starred
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, with original music and lyrics by Mr. Hansard and Ms. Irglová.
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 Markéta Irglová. Glen and Markéta 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 15, 2012.
ONCE is produced by
Barbara Broccoli,
John N. Hart Jr.,
Patrick Milling Smith,
Frederick Zollo,
Brian Carmody,
Michael G. Wilson,
Orin Wolf and Executive Producer
Robert Cole, in association with New York Theatre Workshop.
Photo by Joan Marcus
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