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Broadway? I just found this article...

2007-07-15T12:18:31Z

( http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2007-07-12/ )
"Hollywood Flop May Become Broadway Smash

Broadway has apparently turned Hollywood on its head by turning the 1980 musical flop Xanadu into a stage hit. By and large, the show, which opened Tuesday night, has received enthusiastic reviews. Calling it an "outlandishly enjoyable stage spoof," New York Times stage critic Charles Isherwood writes that it is "simultaneously indefensible and irresistible." Isherwood concludes: "The show's winking attitude toward its own aesthetic abjectness can be summed up thus: If you can't beat 'em, slap on some roller skates and join 'em." Linda Winer in Newsday calls the show "a grand little piece of smart dumb fun." And Joe Dzienmianowicz, in the New York Daily News calls it "eye and ear candy that's delightfully inspiring ... a cure for summertime blues." But Clive Barnes in the New York Post isn't buying any of that. Noting that the original movie was credited with killing off the large-scale Hollywood musical for more than two decades, Barnes suggests that the only thing "not awful" about the Broadway show is the music. "That, I suppose, is the only goodish news of an absolutely ghastly show" in which the performers all have "to keep their tongues in their cheeks for so long it must give them earaches," he remarks. "

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Funny thing is, I was just coming to this tribe to read the latest posts, at the same time I came across this article via IMDb. (Yeah, I "multitask", keeping several windows going and running back and forth reading them all. ;-P ) Anyway, I felt that was a sign for me to post the info. here. :D

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Sing-a-Long Xanadu

2007-06-15T20:05:02Z

I hope to god someone else is going to this besides me!!!

http://www.peacheschrist.com/mmass/2007/film3.html

I can't WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!

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Xanadu - The Musical

2007-05-24T03:55:55Z

O...M...T....S.... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/14/AR2006121401122.html

NEW YORK -- The 1980s will never die -- at least not on Broadway.

"Xanadu," based on the campy 1980 film about a Greek muse who helps a young man build a disco roller rink, is coming to the stage. Songs are by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, who provided tunes for the movie. The book is by Douglas Carter Beane, author of "The Little Dog Laughed," a comedy currently playing at Broadway's Cort Theatre.

No casting for "Xanadu" was announced, but a workshop production earlier this year featured Jane Krakowski and Cheyenne Jackson. The film starred Olivia Newton-John as that helpful Greek muse, Michael Beck and movie-musical legend Gene Kelly.

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Xanaredu

2006-07-10T21:26:01Z

It's time for you to cast the remake of Xanadu.

The only rule is, Britney Spears may not play the Olivia part, dammit.

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Xanadu on the big screen in SF!!!

2006-01-07T18:54:12Z

http://www.thecastrotheatre.com/p-list.html

It's the last listing, so scroll down to the bottom for January 27. It will be the first time I have seen Xanadu in a movie theater since seeing it at the cineplex when it originally came out (I saw it with my grandma and she totally hated it).

Since there are no roller rinks in SF, I move we all dress up in roller disco outfits and wear skates to the theater. I highly recommend RollerBoogie, the first film of the three, it's also one of my favorite movies. I was shocked when they released it on DVD. It features Linda Blair delivering some really bad dialogue and also the Cher song "Hell On Wheels". I have never seen Skatetown USA, so I'm looking forward to that one as well. But it's all about the Xanadu....

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where to skate?

2005-12-14T06:56:40Z

Until I realize my lifelong dream of opening a totally awesome rollerskating/disco nightclub with jugglers and tapdancing waitresses, where is there to skate?

Are there any roller rinks left?

And who would go with me?

(I'm in San Francisco. Golden Gate park is nice, but it's a little cold for that in the winter.)

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25th Anniversary Screening

2005-10-04T19:40:45Z

So happy to find this tribe. I love this movie. Wanted to share my recent experience at the Alex Theatre in Glendale California. They hosted a 25th Anniversary screening of the movie complete with one of the original dancers, costuem contest, and a live dance recreation of the "Dancin" number. It was pretty fucking amazing.

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Favorite Song In The Movie?

2005-10-01T00:02:15Z

Since the obvious answer would be where the two cultures form together... I'll go out on a limb and say the skating scene with Gene Kelly as they open Xanadu. HO!

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The soundtrack

2005-07-04T17:27:22Z

The best part of the movie (as if that has to be said). Looking back now on the movie is kinda of corny. But when I was a little girl I thought it was magical. Still holds some archetypal, mythical significance though.

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watching it in french

2005-05-18T23:05:05Z

I had a friend that made fun of the movie but had never seen it, she refused to watch it so we made her watch with french as the language choice and she said it some how became such a deeper movie for her in french

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That neon glow.

2005-04-06T08:06:58Z

Life would be so much cooler if I could skate around the office leaving a neon trail. Maybe I should dose the water cooler.

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New here

2004-07-24T18:20:32Z

And OMG! I'm so glad someone has a tribe for this... I **LOVE** XANADU!! I own the DVD, and the soundtrack was the *very first record* I ever bought for myself.:) I've owned it on vinyl, tape and CD... numerous times each.

I wanted to BE Kira when I was a little girl! I don't see a moderator (which I didn't know was possible...) but whoever started this tribe, thank you!

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A Good Day Ahead...

2004-07-04T04:11:47Z

So ok, last night I turned on AMC when I got in bed and the movie Thelma and Lousie was on. I tried staying awake to see the ending... but that didn't go as planned. :) But since that channel was still on overnight.. what song do you think woke me up this morning at 5:30 a.m.?? "Whenever You're Away From Me"!! I knew right then it was going to be a Xanadu day! So I threw on my leg warmers, strapped on my roller skates and was off to work to do hair!

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I didn't know this...

2003-12-09T01:09:16Z

Remake of the 1947 film "Down to Earth," starring Rita Hayworth, about a muse who inspires a playwright to write a musical. "Down to Earth" is itself a sequel to "Here Comes Mr. Jordan."
Last dramatic role for dancer/actor/choreographer/director Gene Kelly. DRAMATIC Role????!!!

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hopelessly devoted

2003-12-05T20:05:37Z

http://www.geocities.com/xanadupreservation/movie/tattoo/tattoolady.html

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Fave Xanadancers

2003-12-05T18:03:05Z

My favorite dancers in Xanadu were the guy with the silver hair who wore the spider costume, and then in the Dancin' scene, there's a woman dressed like Billie Holiday and she's having WAY too much fun shaking the big flower on the hip of her dress. I wish I could have been a Xanadancer, but alas, I'm just a Xanadunce.

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Glitz? What's Glitz?

2003-10-25T04:44:09Z

Glitz! You know - PIZZAZZ!!!

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