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Video: Stars Hit the Red Carpet for Opening Night of ONCE UPON A ONE MORE TIME
May 17, 2024
The new Broadway musical Once Upon A One More Time, powered by the music of Grammy Award-winning international pop icon Britney Spears, just celebrated its opening night and BroadwayWorld was there for the festivities. In this video, we hit the red carpet to chat with special guests Laura Benanti, Jane Krakowski, Telly Leung, Adrienne Warren, Tituss Burgess, and so many more!
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It's Britney, Mitch
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Hit me, baby, one more time. Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World
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The new musical Once Upon and One More Time features the iconic songs of Britney Spears
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and we're here on opening night to celebrate with the first nighters. It's opening night
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How do you feel? I'm so thrilled to be here. I mean, it's Pride Month. It's a Britney Spears musical
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And my sweet show husband, Justin Guarini, is Prince Charming. It's perfect. Wait till you see what he does in this show
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The choreo he does is incredible. I've already seen clips of the choreography
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and I have to say I'm, first of all, so impressed by the entire company that's dancing
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but also my body, I already hurts. I already feel like I need an ice pack from that choreography, but it looks amazing. I can't wait
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Date night out. How does it feel? We're tired. We're tired. We had a date night out on Tuesday, and now it's Thursday, and we're doing another one. So..
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That's the most we've had in months. But we're so excited. Our friend Briga, who lives in our town, is in this. We're super excited. She's making her Broadway debut tonight
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It's really exciting. I'm excited to see it. I can't wait to see her and the whole thing
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How excited are you to be here tonight for the Britney opening? I am so excited
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I seen little videos every once in a while on social media so I really really excited to be here The choreography in this show is off the map But you had incredible choreography too and Tina Oh thank you
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Anthony Van Les. So I'm excited to see this choreography because we know dancers
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are some of the hardest working people on Broadway. And so I'm excited to be here to support them
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and just see this incredible choreography. Are you a big Britney fan
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Who doesn't love Brittany? Britney's music. It's so infectious. It makes you dance
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It makes you feel good. I can't wait. How excited are you to be here tonight
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Oh my God, I've already seen this show. I love it so much. And I wasn't so much a Britney Spears fan, not because for any reason
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I just didn't really, oh, this breeze feels so good, it's so hot
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But they make excellent YouTuber songs. The story is fantastic. It's like Into the Woods on steroids
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It's really great, on Adderall. I can't wait. I mean, the Broadway season has been off the hook, and now here's just another
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big opening and David Laveau is the dear director of nine so I'm so happy to be here to support
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him and I'm so happy to see the show there's so many Broadway debuts tonight too which is pretty
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exciting too so exciting I also love this new tradition where they get sort of a special applause
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at the end of the show it's been a new thing this season the last two seasons maybe post-covid
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let's say and it's been really nice to salute everybody who's working backstage salute all the newcomers
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very nice you know this show is is introducing a whole new audience who has never seen a show before
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And you know, we all remember the first time we went like, oh my gosh, they do this live
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And it's going to change them forever what that means to you. Well I think it incredible that we could get a new audience or any younger audience coming to Broadway Something definitely needed I used to be in Broadway shows too Eh eh eh
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A little lady over here now. No, but I... Look, I'm one of those people that watch the Tony Awards every year, taped it every year
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It inspired me. I wanted to memorize all those numbers. Then I used to go see live Broadway shows as a little kid with wonder in my eyes
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And I hope that the new audiences feel that way, Whether they just want to be an audience member forever
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or they want to eventually be up there on the stage themselves. But seeing this many Broadway debuts, I think, should give people hope
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that there is room for a whole new generation and a whole new voice to come to Broadway
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I'm so excited I had to come back twice. I mean, I had to come back
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This show is so much fun. I love Britney's music. Like, those songs are, like, timeless and classic and fun all at the same time
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And I'm here with my date, Nick Scandale. Scandalia, my Broadway journey started with Nick, believing in me
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And yeah, it's really a touching, touching moment. So whenever I get the chance to do this
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We've been friends ever since. We've been friends ever since, over 20 years. Raising our kids together, actually
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A lot of people are seeing this show that have never been to a Broadway show before
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And they're experiencing what live theater is. I was here the other night
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They were like, oh, my God, we have to buy more tickets to more shows. What that means to you
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Well, it means a lot to me because, you know, when you do Brittany's stuff, there's some generational change attached to that, right? She brings a
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whole new younger audience, right? It's, you know, Mamma Mia for millennials, right? You know, it's that
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sense of fun right And that opens doors for people because I believe anytime somebody sees a show they love it leads them to the next show Absolutely does Oh I so excited You know I love Brittany
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She is an icon. She is the princess of pop. And the fact that she's going to be on a Broadway stage in all her glory, I'm very excited
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Big Britney fan? I am a big Britney fan, but I'm a bigger Aisha Jackson fan
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So I'm wearing white for Snow White because that's my girl. Wait till you see what she does in this show
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Oh, I can't wait. I cannot wait. It is opening night. We're on the carpet. How do you two feel tonight to be here
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Excited and really gay. Very gay and ecstatic. Okay. Big Britney fans
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Huge, number one. Massive, massive. Were you like big Britney fans? Yes, and then I used to work at her record label
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So it's like full circle for me. I'm a co-producer on the show also. That's fabulous
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For you? I just loved it. Whenever I'm like working out or anything, I always listen to Britney
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So, yeah. It always gets you in a good mood. Well, you're just in a good mood. You would be a Britney fan
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Richie, this was like the soundtrack of my, like, childhood, my high school years
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I remember exactly where I was when Crazy came out and maybe one more time
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And so I'm just so excited to see all of this put into motion for this show
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How excited are you two to be here tonight? Very excited. We saw the show in D.C
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And it's a wonderful Valentine's of the Feminine Mistakes. So we love it
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Yes. Yes, it cuts to the simple truth. Yeah. To have your mom now deaf represented on Broadway what that means to you
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Well, Betty was a performer, she always would have loved to be on Broadway
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So this is her making it to Broadway. And that's, she knows it
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