ONCE Coming to Omaha's Orpheum Theater, 5/12-17

ONCE, winner of eight Tony Awards® including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theater Album, will play Omaha's Orpheum Theater for a limited engagement Tuesday, May 12, through Sunday, May 17. Tickets for ONCE are available through Ticket Omaha.*

The tickets, starting at $30 each, are available by going online at TicketOmaha.com; by phone at 402.345.0606; or by going to the Ticket Omaha box office inside the Holland Performing Arts Center, 12th and Douglas. Groups of 10 or more may purchase tickets by calling 402.661.8516 or toll-free at 866.434.8587. The show is part of Omaha Performing Arts' Broadway Series.

ONCE, which was also named Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards, ran for more than 1,100 performances on Broadway with acclaimed international productions from London and Melbourne to Japan and South Korea.

ONCE features the Academy Award®-winning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard, from the popular Irish rock band The Frames, and Markéta Irglová; a book by award-winning Irish playwright and screenwriter, Enda Walsh

(Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric Ballroom); direction by the acclaimed Scottish director of Black Watch, John Tiffany; movement by Steven Hoggett (Black Watch, American Idiot); and music supervision and orchestrations by Martin Lowe (Mamma Mia!). The set and costume design are by five-time Tony Award® winner Bob Crowley (The Coast of Utopia, Mary Poppins), lighting design is by Tony® winner Natasha Katz (Aida, The Coast of Utopia), and sound design is by Clive Goodwin.

ONCE tells the story of an Irish musician and a Czech immigrant drawn together by their shared love of music. Over the course of one fateful week, their unexpected friendship and collaboration evolves into a powerful but complicated romance, heightened by the raw emotion of the songs they create together. Brought to the stage by an award- winning team of visionary artists and featuring an ensemble cast of gifted actor/musicians, ONCE is a musical celebration of life and love: thrilling in its originality, daring in its honesty and unforgettable in every way.

The 2007 Academy Award®-winning film, ONCE, was written and directed by John Carney, and starred Hansard and Irglová, with original music and lyrics by Hansard and Irglová. The Oscar-winning independent Irish film ONCE was made for $150,000. Shot in 17 days, it went on to gross $20 million worldwide, becoming a critically-acclaimed international smash. Hansard and Irglová won the 2007 Academy Award® for Best Original song for "Falling Slowly," the Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Music, and the soundtrack was nominated for two Grammy Awards®.

ONCE was originally developed at the American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, Mass.) in April 2011; Diane Paulus, Artistic Director; Diane Borger, Producer.

A developmental run of ONCE at New York Theatre Workshop (James C. Nicola and William Russo) began performances on November 15, 2011 and opened December 6. The production broke box office records and concluded a sold-out engagement including a two-week extension through January 15, 2012.

ONCE is produced by Barbara Broccoli, John N. Hart Jr., Patrick Milling Smith, Frederick Zollo, Brian Carmody, Michael G. Wilson, Orin Wolf and Executive Producer Robert Cole, in association with New York Theatre Workshop.

ONCE will run Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 12-14, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, May 15, at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, May 16, at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, May 17, at 1:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

For more information on ONCE the stage musical, please visit www.TicketOmaha.com, or the official ONCE website: www.oncemusical.com. Follow Omaha Performing Arts on Facebook: OmahaPerformingArtsorg; Twitter: @OPerformingArts or You Tube: youtube.com/OmahaPerformingArts.

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