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Synopsis: Based on the film of the same name, Xanadu centers on a Greek muse who is sent to earth to inspire Californians during the 1980s. While on earth, she meets and falls in love with an artist and helps him realize his dreams. Click here for tickets.
Reviews
NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW:
"Can a musical be simultaneously indefensible and irresistible? Why, yes it can. Witness 'Xanadu, the outlandishly enjoyable stage spoof of the outrageously bad movie from 1980."
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NEWSDAY REVIEW:
"A grand little piece of smart dumb fun."
Full review not available.
USA TODAY REVIEW:
"A flop on screen, a waste on stage. Xanadu, which opened Tuesday at the Helen Hayes Theatre, isn't the worst film adaptation to land on Broadway, but it might be the most cynical."
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VARIETY REVIEW:
'What looked on paper to be one-note sketch fodder turns out to be an unexpectedly sustained and refreshingly unassuming crowd-pleaser."
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS REVIEW:
"90 minutes of souped-up silliness and broad comedy. Kerry Butler is simply out of this world as Kira. Delightfully inspired."
Full review not available.
THE NEW YORK POST REVIEW:
"For a jukebox musical, the music is certainly not awful, simply nostalgic-generic. If you are of a certain age, you will remember that you had forgotten it and prepare to forget it again. That, I suppose, is the only goodish news of an absolutely ghastly show."
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THE NEW YORKER REVIEW:
"Xanadu (at the Helen Hayes) is so ridiculously brilliant, so lavish and sublime a confection that any set of adjectives you might come up with after a single viewing will more than likely be replaced by another set of ineffectual adjectives once you'e seen the show a second or third time. It's probably the most fun you'll have on Broadway this season, one reason being that everything about it is so resolutely anti-Broadway."
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THEATERMANIA REVIEW:
"The simple reason is that only the doltish could fail to improve on something so awful -- and the Xanadu creative team, headed by playwright Douglas Carter Beane and director Christopher Ashley, is clearly not a convention of dolts. Indeed, they have taken the movie's bare essentials and transformed them into a cute 85-minute spoof that works more effectively than all but the strongest believers might ever have hoped."
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