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Once, 2012

Shows · Once · Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 2012

Once
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Once and could document any of its runs. None
Original BroadwayBernard B. Jacobs Theatre 1,168 performances8 Tony Awards

The run closed January 4, 2015

Opened
March 18, 2012
Closed
January 4, 2015
Performances
1,168
Previews
Unknown

Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 14th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Once 1 more that season

2013 Transfer Transfer

Who was in it10 named

Ripley Sobo
Mckayla Twiggs
Laurel Griggs
Sophie Knapp
Jillian Lebling
Eliza Holland Madore
Madeleine Pace

3 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 7 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
John Tiffany, John
Choreographer
Steven Hoggett

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 8 from 11 nominations

Best Musical Won

Recordings 15 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Once, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Once is a musical based on the 2007 film of the same name by John Carney. Like the film, music and lyrics were by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, including the Academy Award-winning "Falling Slowly". The book for the musical was written by Enda Walsh. The musical premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2011, before transferring to Broadway in 2012. The production received eleven 2012 Tony Award nominations, and won eight including Best Musical, Best Actor and Best Book. The musical also won the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical and the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. It has since spawned a London production, with a North American Tour which started on 1…

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • Which of the 15 recordings of Once document this run, if any.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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