Now that she is out of her family business, Britney Spears, star of the 1990s and 2000s, intends to win back the hearts of her millions of fans.
A musical inspired by his greatest hits is scheduled from June 2023 at the Marquis Theater on Broadway.
No question for the singer to go back on stage, at least in this show which mixes the spirit of fairy tales with feminist demands.
According to Deadline, the premiere will take place on May 13, although no casting details have been released.
According to
Variety
,
it will be punctuated by a dozen songs by Britney Spears, such as
Oops I Did It Again
,
Toxic
,
Circus
or
Lucky
.
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Announced just before the arrival of the Covid, in 2019,
Once Upon a One More Time
was originally produced by the Shakespeare Theater Company, in Washington DC The name of the comedy is a reference to the song
Baby One More Time
, released in 1998, which was a dazzling success.
When the play was announced, Britney Spears said in a statement that she was
"excited"
to have a musical with her songs.
"It takes place in a magical world with characters I grew up with and love,"
added the star.
At its world premiere, in Chicago, the comedy received fairly mixed reviews.
The
Washington Post
regretted the
"frustratingly rushed feeling"
felt with the sequence of songs and
"a lack of finesse"
, however praising the performance of the main performer, Briga Heelan, who
"imparts a certain elegance and a certain order to a vigorous show that we would like to see slow down”
.
Fairy tales revisited
The show, written by Jon Hartmere and choreographed by Keone and Mari Madrid, revisits Disney classics like
Cinderella
,
The Little Mermaid
or
Snow White
with a feminist twist.
The musical imagines a book club during which the Fairy Godmother advises the princesses to read Betty Friedan's essay,
The Feminine Mystique
.
This bestseller is considered one of the most important texts of the feminist movement at the start of the 1960s. Translated into ten languages,
La Femme mystifiée,
edited by the feminist Yvette Roudy, received a great reception in France.
This text resonates with the dramatic story of Britney Spears who was placed under the guardianship of her father for fifteen years and from whom she has only just gotten rid of.