13 Reasons London Will Miss Once The Musical

The beautiful and multi-award winning musical ONCE leaves on March 21st after two years in the West End. Here's why foggy old London town will miss it...

Once makes you cry. ACTUAL BUCKETS.

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I mean we're sobbing right now, just thinking about it. Graham Norton was in pieces after seeing the show and we all know famous people are hard to make cry.

Beautiful, beautiful music.

Everybody has their favourite, but all agree that Once is stuffed to the mirrored walls with truly fantastic music. (We're actually 6 times through the cast recording at the time of writing this. *hums dreadfully, yet passionately*)

Greeting a piano.

Since seeing Once we've hollar'd at each and every old Joanna we've seen! You should be too. After all, you know she's always serious...she's Czech.

Accidentally Learning Czech.

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It's a beautiful and a collectively intake-of-breath-inducing moment in the show...but you also learn the Czech for "I love you". Who needs Rosetta Stone?!

Sexy Instruments.

Once boasts probably the most handsome set of instruments on London's West End and best of all, you can see them through the ENTIRE show. Would it be wrong to sneak backstage and touch them?

Beer onstage? Sure, fill your boots.

Nowhere else in the West End can you pop on the stage at the theatre for quick pint of Dublin's finest and stand not 3 feet away from performing cast members. Awesome.

Rekindling A Teenage Crush.

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Come on, hand's up...who had a Boyzone poster/cd/tape at one point in their more innocent years? He's back and better than ever. Don't you dare leave us again Ronan!!!

#StageMirrorSelfies

With more than 70 mirrors on the Phoenix Theatre stage it'd be kinda rude to not take a cheeky snap of your lovely self wouldn't it? (The answer is 'Yes BuzzFeed, it would.')

Handsome man + broody guitar play = WIN.

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Come on admit it...you love it when a handsome guy with a guitar gets so lost in his song that he breaks a string. We do too. The strings, however, may not.

Busking the bloody tube.

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Back in 2013 the cast of Once popped down to Leicester Square Underground Station and became the FIRST EVER show to make sweet musical love to the ears of passing by commuters. We totally saw them. *smug face*

Spotify are a fan.

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Speaking of musical firsts, Once was also cool enough to be the only musical in the world to perform an exclusive Spotify Session. Pretty neat huh?

Soooooooooooooo many awardssssssssss.

Let's face it, there aren't many shows out there who are more critically acclaimed. We haven't even got enough fingers to count them all.

(An Oscar, a Grammy, 8 Tony Awards, 3 Drama Desk Awards, 2 Oliviers, 2 BroadwayWorld awards and a Whatsonstage award. BLIMEY CHARLIE.)

TWO WORDS.

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Having pretty much won every musical accolade there is, it's no surprise that these beautiful 266 seconds of song writing genius makes even the most hardened soul cry buckets. *wipes eye*

So fare thee well Once. It was our destiny to meet you.

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