"Once" Proves Broadway Magic Can Thrive on a Human Scale
The common assumption about the way musicals operate is that the characters speak until their emotions can no longer be contained and they are compelled to burst into song. "Once," the beguiling Tony Award-winning musical based on the intensely personal, ruefully romantic 2006 movie that starred songwriter-musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, doesn't entirely defy that essential principal. But it works an intr…