Britney Spears’s “Once Upon a One More Time” Musical Was Her Idea: “She Loves Fairy Tales”

It can be a Britney Spears musical, b*tch!

The extremely predicted musical impressed by Spears’s songs, “After On a Just one Much more Time,” opened at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre on June 22. Like Broadway common “Mamma Mia!,” the musical comedy incorporates tunes from the 41-year-old’s legendary catalog — these as “Oops!…I Did It Yet again,” “Fortunate,” “Circus,” and “Harmful” — to suit the tale. Hip-hop choreographers Keone and Mari Madrid direct the musical, although noteworthy forged customers contain “American Idol” alum Justin Guarini as Prince Charming.

The musical follows various fairy-tale princesses, which includes Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Elegance, who are operating by a selection of the Grimms’ fairy tales with their fortnightly reserve club, per Deadline. A rogue fairy godmother hears their wish for new looking at materials and provides them the feminist classic “The Feminine Mystique,” which spurs a “royal revelation.”

“As soon as Upon a One Extra Time” kicked off with Spears’s stamp of approval. Truly, the show and its fantasy-motivated plot were being her suggestions to begin with. “It was essentially Britney who approached us and claimed, ‘We’d like to have a exhibit centered on my audio, and particularly not a bio-musical,'” the show’s producer Hunter Arnold explained to Range at the musical’s June 22 premiere. “The unique plan arrived from ideas brought forth by her: She loves fairy tales, princesses, storybooks. We took a couple of passes at it — we didn’t get it right right away. Then we did a workshop just after we bought the existing-ish version collectively and she came to see it and give thoughts on it.”

The play’s author, Jon Hartmere, said it wasn’t a tough final decision to indication on to create the participate in. “I might just composed a spec script established in the globe of fairy tales,” Hartmere informed The Hollywood Reporter on June 24. “[The producer, James L. Nederlander,] was like, ‘Is there one thing you can use from there?’ I assumed about it in excess of the weekend and said: ‘Actually, on the lookout at her songbook, she practically has a tune referred to as “Cinderella,” so there most likely is something I can do here.'”

When the musical was 1st announced in 2019, Spears claimed in a assertion to Deadline, “I’m so fired up to have a musical with my songs — specifically a person that will take place in these a magical earth loaded with people that I grew up on, who I appreciate and adore. This is a dream occur accurate for me!”

Spears is not immediately included with “The moment On a A single More Time,” and its premiere arrives approximately two a long time soon after she was released from her 13-12 months conservatorship in November 2021.