‘Once Upon a One More Time’: A Britney Spears musical on Broadway

NEW YORK — To use the Britney Spears catalogue as the material for a musical preaching feminist enlightenment is, to put it mildly, a stretch. The now reclusive pop star's heavily sexualized and self-objectifying body of work includes such fodder as “Baby One More Time,” (”hit me baby …”), “Make Me” (”I just want you to make me move …”) and, of course, the inimitable “Oops! I Did It Again,” wherein the singer declared she was “not that innocent.” To no one's surprise. Sure, there has been the more recent #FreeBritney movement on social media and the long-troubled star, who is in her 40s, n…

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