Once Upon A One More Time (Broadway)
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Once Upon A One More Time (Broadway)
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Once Upon A One More Time (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets

76%
(602 Ratings)
Positive
77%
Mixed
14%
Negative
9%
Members say
Entertaining, Delightful, Funny, Enchanting, Clever

About the Show

When a storybook heroines' book club is upended, they rebel, backed by Britney Spears' iconic hits.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (602)

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77 Reviews | 37 Followers
100
Absorbing, Intelligent, Great staging, Exquisite, Enchanting

See it if If you love Britney Spears music and love the Disney Princesses. The acting in it is brilliant! Great for kids!

Don't see it if ….

58 Reviews | 24 Followers
100
Absorbing, Clever, Entertaining, Enchanting, Delightful

See it if How on earth does the show only have a 75? I just don’t get it it was so enjoyable it was such a great story the dancers were amazing!

Don't see it if You don’t like to have fun and you’ve never heard American fairytales, and how they can mess up young children to have anxiety

127 Reviews | 15 Followers
100
Princesses on parade.

See it if you would like to see a feel-good show with spectacular choreography and a score featuring Britney's biggest hits.

Don't see it if a jukebox musical isn't your thing, and neither is the Princess of Pop. Read more

66 Reviews | 13 Followers
100
Magical, Clever, Masterful, Empowering, Original

See it if you want to enjoy original, fresh, phenomenal acting, comedic timing, choreography, dancing, and singing of nostalgic elements. Flawless!

Don't see it if you don't appreciate female empowerment stories, don't like Britney Spears music, or don't like fairytales. Read more

56 Reviews | 16 Followers
98
Delightful, Refreshing

See it if you like to have fun without thinking about a very deep meaning of a show.

Don't see it if you want everything in your life to have a deep meaning.

50 Reviews | 2 Followers
96
Epic, Great singing, Enchanting, Delightful, Clever

See it if You want to have a fun night out. You like a show that starts out just okay and gets better and better with big dance scenes and spectacle.

Don't see it if You hate fun.

318 Reviews | 61 Followers
96
Great singing, Feminist, Funny, Entertaining, Enchanting

See it if This was such a fun 🤩, light-hearted, feel-good musical 🎤. Great 👍🏽 singing, especially Snow White and Prince 🤴🏽 Charming; the Queen

Don't see it if 👸🏽 was good 😊 too. It was a great 👍🏽 usage of Britney Spears music 🎶, which, in itself was A+. My audience was mostly packed and loved Read more

159 Reviews | 20 Followers
95
Entertaining, Enchanting, Clever

See it if You like the world turned upside down. FUN, FUN, FUN!

Don't see it if You do not want to laugh and enjoy yourself.

Critic Reviews (29)

The New York Times
June 22nd, 2023

“This timidity is but one example of the ways in which the show comes up short, both as a feminist text and as a tribute to Spears’s songbook — and, yes, her life. The last thing her fans might have expected from a Britney Spears musical is dutiful conventionality.”
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Time Out New York
June 22nd, 2023

“Simard is delicious; the rest of the show, if you turn off your brain, is merely yummy in a candy-coated way. That’s not nothing: ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ is a well-assembled and entertaining diversion...Musicals are capable of more ambitious roles than merely carrying Spears.”
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New York Theatre Guide
June 23rd, 2023

“The dance is truly what makes ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ worth the price of admission...also ultimately urges us not only to be willing to change the stories we tell and be open to new ideas, but also that sometimes, we must pass the pen to new writers to tell their stories themselves. That message has continued relevance — if anything, it's continually stronger than yesterday.”
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New York Magazine / Vulture
June 22nd, 2023

“It’s a fun enough concert, though not worth sitting through two hours and 30 minutes of a dull musical to get there.”
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The Wall Street Journal
June 22nd, 2023

“The musical’s primary assets are its splendid cast and the silly smartness of the integration of song and story. Which brings to mind the splendid, silly and smart performance of Jennifer Simard in the role of Cinderella’s stepmother...Ms. Simard, is one of Broadway’s unsung, or undersung, treasures, and her performance alone brings sufficient pleasure to make this trip to Britney-land worth a visit.”
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Deadline
June 22nd, 2023

“The wish-come-true of ’Once Upon a One More Time’ is that it lifts without apology or even a slight blush...To spoil the plot beyond this would be unfair, even though you’ll likely see most of the twists and turns coming, or at least predict the overall story arc.”
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New York Daily News
June 22nd, 2023

“The truly awful ‘Once Upon a One More Time,’...is not that musical. Instead, it tries to cash in on the repetitive fashion of the moralistic musical moment and uses Spears’ songs as a way to critique and deconstruct ‘problematic’ fairy tales.
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New York Daily News
June 22nd, 2023

“To use the Britney Spears catalog as the material for a musical preaching feminist enlightenment is, to put it mildly, a stretch.”
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