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face=Georgia><FONT color=#333333>“Once” is a romantic piece of storytelling so
unassuming that “Once upon a time” is too pretentious a preamble.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And its melancholic tale of star-crossed
love is so universal that the young, working-class dreamers at its center are
identified only as “Guy” and “Girl.”</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#333333>Based on the 2007 Indie movie by John Carney,
this multiple Tony Award-winning musical composed by Glen Hansard and Marketa
Irglova revolves around a disheartened young street musician who is grieving
over the loss of a girl, the lack of commercial prospects for his folk-rock
songwriting, and the isolation of living with his Da above their tiny repair
shop in Dublin, Ireland. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Georgia><FONT color=#333333>The show opens with him singing one of his
gorgeous, angst-filled Irish anthems, throwing away his guitar pick when the
song is through, and walking away from his guitar and his music forever. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is, until he is stopped in his
tracks by a young Czech immigrant who is so blindly optimistic about his
potential that she reinstates his passion for music and is so absolutely
adorable that he rediscovers love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But they are unable to act on their feelings toward each other because
she is married to a man no longer in her heart and he is still connected to the
woman who left. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: en'>What
makes “Once” more than just another romantic tale of despondency is the
absolutely charming way the story is told.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Its creators </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">threw
away the elaborate production values they did not need and amplified the
theatricality in everything they did.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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more of this article, go to </SPAN></I><SPAN
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