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Once is enough for Broadway’s Britney Spears musical, ‘Once Upon a One More Time’
The Feminine Mystique? The princess-to-be with only one shoe realizes that’s not all that’s missing in her life.The premise of Once Upon a One More Time, a new Broadway musical inspired by the music of Britney Spears, hopes to rethink “happily after after” for the 21st century with the help of Spears’ catchy catalog, Keone and Mari Madrid’s choreography that cracks the musical theater mold, and some over-the-top performances that turn the show into an eye-popping “Circus” that makes up for its flaws with plenty of “Scream & Shout.”Broadway’s latest jukebox musical features the music of Britney Spears, and fans are ready for a “Circus.”Early in Once Upon a One More Time, the Narrator (Adam Godley) says to Cinderella (Briga Heelan), “Listen, I’ve been doing this a long time. And believe me, if I change so much as an intonation, the children go full Rumpelstiltskin.