{"id":2441628,"date":"2019-03-12T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=805217"},"modified":"2019-03-12T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:56:07","slug":"britney-spears-songs-will-soundtrack-new-princess-themed-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/britney-spears-songs-will-soundtrack-new-princess-themed-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Songs Will Soundtrack New Princess-Themed Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/8866067fW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s Cinderella, bitch! Fairy tale princesses Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel (and yes, Cinderella) are at the center of a new musical that will feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/britney-spears\/\" id=\"auto-tag_britney-spears\" data-tag=\"britney-spears\">Britney Spears<\/a> songs. <em>Once Upon a One More Time<\/em> will premiere in Chicago this fall before seeking a home on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\">Broadway<\/a> the following year. Theater owner James L. Nederlander is producing the show, which will center around a book club comprised of the fairy tale heroines.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s a twist.<\/p>\n<p>When they wish for a new book, a fairy godmother presents them with Betty Friedan\u2019s iconic feminist text <em>The<\/em> <em>Feminine Mystique<\/em>. As they sing their way through Spears\u2019 two decades of classic songs, the book opens up the eyes of all four (not yet) women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCinderella is having an existential crisis, and she has a posse of famous princesses, and her stepmother is the main antagonist, and there\u2019s also Prince Charming and a dwarf we\u2019ve never met \u2014 the eighth dwarf \u2014 and a narrator who is unhappy his system is being dismantled before his eyes,\u201d bookwriter Jon Hartmere (<em>The Upside<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Bare<\/em>) told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/12\/theater\/britney-spears-musical.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThese women have been in this hermetically sealed world, and then they start to get deeper into modern ideas \u2014 second and third-wave feminism \u2014 and also explore how stories are passed down to us, and where we get our norms from. But it\u2019s also superfun and funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three of Spears\u2019 songs will be featured in the musical; the pop princess has already seen one reading of the musical and has given her blessing. Previews will begin on October 29th at Chicago\u2019s James L. Nederlander Theater with the official opening set for November 13th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/britney-spears-fairy-tale-musical-once-upon-a-one-more-time-805217\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Cinderella, bitch! Fairy tale princesses Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Rapunzel (and yes, Cinderella) are at the center of a new musical that will feature Britney Spears songs. Once Upon a One More Time will premiere in Chicago this fall before seeking a home on Broadway the following year. Theater owner James L. Nederlander is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 08:42:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}