A musical featuring the intoxicating discography of pop icon Britney Spears is coming to Broadway, but it's not quite what you might expect from the legendary "Baby One More Time" singer.
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The musical, Once Upon a One More Time, will debut in Chicago and follows a group of fairy tale princessess reading The Feminine Mystique in a book club.
Yes, you read that right.
"Unlike many jukebox musicals, this show will not be about Ms. Spears’s life (which has not been a fairy tale), but instead will offer a revisionist look at some legendary characters," writes the New York Times. "In the show, a fortnightly book club whose members include Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty, is working its way through a collection of the Grimms’ fairy tales—the only book they have. But when the women wish for new reading material, a fairy godmother brings them Ms. Friedan’s feminist classic, The Feminine Mystique, and their lives are altered in unexpected ways."
........What?
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NYT continued, "Cinderella is having an existential crisis, and she has a posse of famous princesses, and her stepmother is the main antagonist, and there’s also Prince Charming and a dwarf we’ve never met—the eighth dwarf—and a narrator who is unhappy his system is being dismantled before his eyes."
It's unclear how Spears' hits like "Toxic" and "Work B*tch" will be thrown into such a head-scratching plot. Nonetheless, Spears is excited about the show and has worked with the director for three years developing it!
"I’m so excited to have a musical with my songs–especially one that takes place in such a magical world filled with characters that I grew up on, who I love and adore,” she said in a press release. "This is a dream come true for me!"
Am I confused? Yes. Will I be first in line? Also yes.
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