After an off-Broadway run in 2011, "Once" opened on Broadway the next year, snagging eight Tony awards. Based on the 2006 film bearing the same title, the song "Falling Slowly" also won an Oscar for Best Original Song. Right off the bat, as the audience files into the Fox, there's already an Irish-flavored party happening onstage, where you are welcomed to go up to the onstage bar and get a drink before the show…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 09:09AM on April 16, 2014