The run closed January 4, 2015
- Opened
- March 18, 2012
- Closed
- January 4, 2015
- Performances
- 1,168
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 14th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Once 1 more that season
| 2013 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it10 named
Ripley Sobo
Mckayla Twiggs
Laurel Griggs
Sophie Knapp
Jillian Lebling
Eliza Holland Madore
Benjamin Magnuson
Madeleine Pace
2 of these 10 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters13 roles recorded
Steve Kazee Guy
Cristin Milioti Girl
Elizabeth A. Davis Réza
David Abeles Eamon
Will Connolly Andrej
David Patrick Kelly Da
Anne L. Nathan Baruska
Lucas Papaelias Svec
Andy Taylor Bank Manager
Erikka Walsh Ex-Girlfriend
Paul Whitty Billy
J. Michael Zygo Emcee
Ripley Sobo, McKayla Twiggs Ivanka
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- John Tiffany, John
- Choreographer
- Steven Hoggett
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 8 from 11 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Recordings 5 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Once, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Once is a musical based on the 2007 film of the same name by John Carney. Like the film, music and lyrics were by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, including the Academy Award-winning "Falling Slowly". The book for the musical was written by Enda Walsh. The musical premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2011, before transferring to Broadway in 2012. The production received eleven 2012 Tony Award nominations, and won eight including Best Musical, Best Actor and Best Book. The musical also won the 2012 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical and the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. It has since spawned a London production, with a North American Tour which started on 1…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- Which of the 5 recordings of Once document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.