The “Once” Musical is Playing Off Broadway Now! (Discount Code)

Once: A New Musical As I reported back in January, a musical of the movie Once was being planned for a Fall 2011 debut on Broadway. Well, it’s now officially Fall, (almost Winter, I suppose), and the Once musical is in fact, currently playing in our fair city pretty much as originally promised. The reason…

Glen Hansard Playing City Winery, “Once” Musical Being Planned

The Swell Season at Celebrate Brooklyn (07/30/10) Photo: Geoff Green (more) Glen Hansard will be performing a rare solo show on Feb 2 (Buy Tickets) at the City Winery. Also, as previously mentioned, The Frames frontman will be one of the many artists performing at the big Neil Young at Carnegie Hall tribute on February…

The Awards Show Bump

Congratulations to Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova and John Carney (the director of Once) on winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song and having the number one selling album on amazon.com. As Drake said, let’s hope it translates into some Billboard action too. Though as a host he was so-so again, Jon Stewart gets high…

Glen and Mar to Perform at Oscars, Swell Season Tour (RCMH Show)

“Falling Slowly” from Once This is surely one reason to stay home and watch the show. Variety has the rundown on all of this year’s Oscar musical performances below. Performers of the nominated songs will include Amy Adams (“Happy Working Song”), Kristin Chenoweth and Marlon Saunders (“That’s How You Know”) and Jon McLaughlin (“So Close”)….