They're making a broadway musical of Xanadu!!!
Starring Magdalena Kozena!!! (not really. but they are making a musical.) And Thomas Hampson!!!
I'm going to look like the world's biggest hypocrite for finding this exciting after whining about pre-fab musicals like The Wedding Singer, but if you've ever seen Xanadu, maybe you'll understand. Because unlike middlebrow, ephemeral but acceptable nothings like High Fidelity, Xanadu is utter crap! "Exuberantly idiotic and wrong," said one critic (me). "Divinely sincere in its embarassing missteps," said another (still me.)
It has its own music. And it's by E.L.O.! It has a crazy number where an old Andrews Sisters type number has to share the stage with that crazy 80's "Rock and Roll" sound, so it's kind of like Ariadne auf Naxos that way. It's fool-proof. Like a musical of, I don't know, Carrie.
2 comments:
At laaahhhast!
I was jusy listening to "I'm Alive" earlier today. I never gave up on Xanadu. The script is totally pointless. It may make a great musical.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
You have no idea how happy that pic makes me.
Xanadu = Ariadne auf naxos, lol!
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