Book by: Douglas Carter Beane & Marc Reid Rubel
Music by: John Farrar & Jeff Lynne
Synopsis: The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. One of them, incarnated as a girl named Kira, encounters an artist named Sonny Malone.
NEW YORK TIMES:
“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"
Read the whle review HERE.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"90 minutes of souped-up silliness and broad comedy" & "Kerry Butler is simply out of this world as Kira" & "Delightfully inspired."
NEW YORK POST:
"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."
Read the whole review HERE.
STAR-LEDGER:
"'Xanadu' here proves to be a goofy glitterball of a musical" & "Sure, 'Xanadu' makes 'Mamma Mia' look like Shakespeare, but there's strange magic in such madness.
NEWSDAY:
"A grand little piece of smart dumb fun."
NEW YORK SUN:
"A number of seasoned Broadway pros simultaneously mock, embrace, deconstruct, and tart up with surprisingly agreeable flair the excruciating 1980 roller-disco movie of the same name."
Read the whole review HERE.
VARIETY:
"what looked on paper to be one-note sketch fodder turns out to be an unexpectedly sustained and refreshingly unassuming crowd-pleaser."
|
