Once Stage Adaptation Plans Initial Off-Broadway Run at New York Theatre Workshop

While the previously announced stage adaptation of Once was aiming for a Broadway run this fall, the show will now begin off-Broadway, according to The New York Times. The production will run at off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop beginning this November. No set dates or casting has been announced.

"Our first rush of enthusiasm was to go right to Broadway," producer John Hart said. "I don't think there's any fixing to do, nothing specific, but we want to take our time and put it before audiences and critics at the New York Theatre Workshop to get a clear sense of what we have."

Once is a modern day musical about a street musician and a Czech immigrant, set on the streets of Dublin. During an eventful week the two meet, begin writing songs together, rehearse and record their songs to take to London in hopes of landing a music contract. Through the music they write, the duo works through their past loves, and are confronted with their new feelings for each other.

The musical features a score by Glen Hansard (frontman of Irish band The Frames) and singer/songwriter Markéta Irglová, who co-starred in the film and won the Best Original Song Academy Award for "Falling Slowly." Irish playwright Edna Walsh contributed the book. The show recently underwent a multiweek workshop at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Steve Kazee (110 in the Shade) and Cristin Milioti (The Little Foxes) played the lead roles.