Description: Theater reviews and more
Theater reviews and more
Here is yet another jukebox musical about female empowerment. The theme is certainly welcome but when it comes in repetitive wave after wave, the redundancy becomes numbing (not to mention the box office cannibalization). Some of these shows are very good ( & Juliet ). Some are not ( Bad Cinderella ). Once Upon a One More Time is a mixed bag but I enjoyed myself immensely.
The concept takes the Britney Spears catalog and attempts to reposition historical fairy tale female stereotypes. Those characters include Cinderella (again!), Snow White, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Princess Pea and the Little Mermaid. They have a reading club (really) so they’re not just pretty! The underdeveloped book (Jon Hartmere) bizarrely places these empowered women as less central than those who dominate them. If you can move on from the slight storyline, major fun can be had.