Once BROADWAY REVIEWS

• NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF Once

  

  Another Pint of Melancholy

  Ben Brantley

  March 18, 2012: Sometimes how cool you look depends on where you’re standing. When I first saw the musical “Once” at the New York Theater Workshop last December, it registered as a little too twee, too conventionally sentimental, for the East Village. Yet on Broadway — at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater to be exact, where “Once” opened on Sunday night — what is essentially the same production feels as vital and surprising as the early spring that has crept up on Manhattan.

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• ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW OF Once

  

  Musical of 'Once' is 'irresistible'

  Mark Kennedy

  March 18, 2012: The party has already started by the time you enter the Broadway theater to see the musical "Once." The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre's stage is filled with musicians jamming to Irish tunes in what looks like a Dublin pub. Real drinks are offered to the brave theatergoers willing to go up and mingle.

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• HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW OF Once

  

  Once

  David Rooney

  March 18, 2012: A Sundance discovery and a breakout hit for Fox Searchlight in 2007, the Irish indie movie has become a captivating Broadway musical, with a superb cast of actor-musicians led by Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti.

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• LA TIMES REVIEW OF Once

  

  "Once" on Broadway

  Charles McNulty

  March 18, 2012: Broadway musicals spawned from movies are usually big, brash, bawdy affairs — think “Sister Act” and “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” two giddy disco balls launched last season.

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• NEWSDAY REVIEW OF Once

  

  'Once' enchants in screen-to-stage move

  Linda Winer

  March 18, 2012: It is hard not to oversell the wonderful strangeness of "Once," the enchanting little musical that moved to Broadway after a winter run at the New York Theatre Workshop.

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