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      “A love story played with fierce sincerity and unexpected honesty.”

      —Wall Street Journal

      “The musical has a masterful, even revelatory, book by the Irish playwright Enda Walsh ... it is no traditional screen-to-stage adaptation. Rather, it’s a textbook example of how to do it right. Everything you see, hear and feel is inherently theatrical . . . you start to feel things the movie simply could not make you feel. The characters deepen, and their dilemmas seem to pulse directly to you.”

      —Chicago Tribune

      “Beautiful.”

      —New York magazine

      “The sweetest and most romantic show on Broadway . . . Spanning a week in Dublin, the story is deceptively simple and speaks volumes about the power of music and connection.”

      —Daily News

      “Original and emotionally exhilarating, Once is the sort of revivifying breeze nowhere more necessary than on Broadway.”

      —Washington Post

      “Once is unusually fun and heartfelt musical theater.”

      —New Yorker

      “Heart-stopping and enthralling. It’s a genuine thrill to hear an entire Broadway house hushed and focused on the action onstage. And it makes the roar of applause at the end all the more ecstatic.”

      —Huffington Post

      “A rhapsodic, unique musical that retains all the heart of the original Irish film.”

      —Variety

      “Once in a blue moon, perhaps Once in a decade or so, a new Broadway musical breaks the rules, challenges expectations and delights audiences with something they didn’t realize they were longing for. Once is that musical.”

      —Columbus Dispatch

       once

      BOOKS BY ENDA WALSH AVAILABLE FROM TCG

      The New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth Farce

       Once

       Penelope

       The Small Things and Other Plays

      INCLUDES:

      bedbound

      Chatroom

      Disco Pigs

      The Ginger Ale Boy

      How These Desperate Men Talk

      Lynndie’s Gotta Gun

      misterman

      The Small Things

       once

      BOOK

       Enda Walsh

      MUSIC AND LYRICS

       Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová

       Based on the motion picture, written and directed by John Carney

      THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP

      NEW YORK

      2012

      Once book is copyright © 2012 by Enda Walsh Once music and lyrics are copyright © 2012 by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová

      Preface is copyright © 2012 by Enda Walsh (previously published as liner notes to the CD for Once)

      Once is published by Theatre Communications Group, Inc., 520 Eighth Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10018-4156, by special arrangement with Nick Hern Books Limited

      All Rights Reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in newspaper, magazine, radio or television reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Professionals and amateurs are hereby warned that this material, being fully protected under the Copyright Laws of the United States of America and all other countries of the Berne and Universal Copyright Conventions, is subject to a royalty.

      All rights, including but not limited to, professional, amateur, recording, motion picture, recitation, lecturing, public reading, radio and television broadcasting, and the rights of translation into foreign languages are expressly reserved. Particular emphasis is placed on the question of readings and all uses of this book by educational institutions, permission for which must be secured from the author representatives: (professional performing rights) Curtis Brown Ltd, Haymarket House, 28–29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4SP, 44 (0)20 7396 0110 (fax), [email protected]; (amateur performing rights) Nick Hern Books, 14 Larden Road, London W3 7ST, 44 (0)20 8735 0250 (fax), [email protected]

      Copyright/rights information for the individual songs may be found at the back of the book.

      The publication of Once by Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová through TCG’s Book Program, is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

      TCG books are exclusively distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.

      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Walsh, Enda.

      Once / Book, Enda Walsh; Music and Lyrics, Glen Hansard and Markéta

      Irglová.— First Edition.

      pages cm

      eISBN 978-1-55936-768-4

      I. Hansard, Glen, 1970– composer. II. Irglová, Markéta, 1988– composer.

      III. Title.

      PR6123.A46O53 2012

      822’.92—c23 2012039810

      Book design and composition by Lisa Govan

      Cover art by SpotCo

      First Edition, December 2012

Contents

      PREFACE

      In April 2011 our production of Once was coming together in of all places—the basement of a church at Harvard!

      The plan was to workshop the script there—to learn the music and songs—to get a sense of the staging and to perform in a small theater for a week and gauge what the hell we had. We were to do this in a packed three-week rehearsal period—in the basement of a church! (I mentioned that, right?) It should have been soul-destroying, exhausting work, but it really was the opposite.

      I’ve never experienced such a creative environment before—such a positive rehearsal room. I used to turn up and sit there in awe of our director John Tiffany and movement director Steven Hoggett and watch as they whipped scenes out of thin air. Then our musical director Martin Lowe would floor me daily with his speed of thought, his amazingly concise direction and thunderous energy. I wanted to bottle the three of them up, freeze them and unleash them on my geriatric self some time in my sad future. I was lucky to be there. But I think we all felt that.

      From the start it was always our idea to create an ensemble. It’s something that’s inherent in all theater productions of course but we wanted that to be our central philosophy. A cast of actors/musicians that would tell this delicate love story and would operate as a collective where one person can’t work without the other—where the group is more powerful than the individual—where the alchemy of different instruments, different voices can hit the air and become something gorgeous.

      It was an idea, a hope and somewhere in the casting—in the actors’ decisions

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