Britney Spears’ musical show is finally happening! The Britney Spears musical about fairy princesses reading feminist literature is headed to Broadway next summer. However, the songstress is not known to be part of the making of the show in either a creative or producorial capacity, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Entitled Once Upon A One More Time, the musical is scheduled to start previews on Broadway next May 13 before officially opening at the Marquis Theatre on June 23. Britney’s beloved hits like Toxic, Oops I Did It Again, Lucky and Circus have been integrated into an original book by Jon Hartmere, who previously wrote the book and lyrics of the rock musical Bare about gay students at a Catholic school.
The show is about a book club of iconic fairy princesses who wind up reading Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. When the 1963 book arrives via fairy godmother, it interrupts the ladies’ usual habit of rereading the Grimm stories that make up their whole library. Once Upon A One More Time’s princesses include Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, coincidentally, all characters who were also sent up in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s hit 1987 Broadway musical Into The Woods.
The project was initially announced in 2019 when Britney was still in the hold of her father’s controversial conservatorship, which she was freed from last year. Early in 2019, Jon Hartmere told the New York Times that Britney had been to a table read of the show, which was then scheduled for a run in Chicago. A string of her famous numbers and what Jon called ‘a couple of deep album cuts’ made up the Britney songs featured in the stage show.
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The Chicago opening was bumped to early 2020 and then cancelled altogether when the coronavirus lockdowns swept the country. At long last, the show opened a year ago for a limited engagement at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. Keone and Mari Madrid, who competed on the reality show World Of Dance co-judged by Jennifer Lopez, have directed and choreographed the musical.