Xanadu on Broadway (Original Broadway Cast Recording 2007)
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Composer: John FarrarComposer: Jeff Lynne
Performer: Kerry Butler
Performer: Cheyenne Jackson
Performer: Jackie Hoffman
Performer: Mary Testa
Performer: Tony Roberts
Performer: Curtis Holbrook
Performer: Anika Larsen
Performer: Andre Ward
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Music Label: P.S. CLASSICS
Soundtracks:
- I m Alive
- Magic
- Evil Woman
- Suddenly
- Whenever You re Away From Me
- Dancin
- Strange Magic
- All Over the World
- Don t Walk Away
- Fool
- The Fall
- Suspended in Time
- Have You Never Been Mellow? 14. Xanadu
Music reviews of Xanadu on Broadway (Original Broadway Cast Recording 2007)
Music Review: It's a PARODY
Rating: 5 Stars
Lots of others have already reviewed this album on its voicing talents. What I would like to point out is that Xanadu is a PARODY on a movie that did absolutely horrible at the box office. It does not matter if you loved or hated the movie -- Broadway cast albums serve as a way to relive a musical after one has seen it! Stop saying Kerry Butler is bad "replacement" for Olivia Newton-John. This is the BROADWAY musical, not the Xanadu movie on stage. She is playfully mocking her in this musical and certainly has a voice of her own if you've seen her in anything else. And anyone who says that Cheyenne Jackson can't sing obviously has no ear for music at all.
So please, do not take Xanadu seriously. I mean, it's a show about a guy who wants to open up a roller disco after meeting a girl with an Australian accent who skates around. It doesn't even take itself seriously.
For the record Cheyenne Jackson and Kerry Butler are amazing.
Description of Xanadu on Broadway (Original Broadway Cast Recording 2007)
The first smash hit of the 2007-2008 Broadway season turned out to be one of the biggest surprises in Broadway history: XANADU, which roller-skated its way into the hearts of critics and audiences alike. A hilariously reinvented send-up of the 1980's Olivia Newton-John film flop, this irreverent musical adventure, about following your dreams when others say you shouldn't, spins along to the addictive original hit film score by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar. XANADU follows the beautiful Greek muse Kira as she visits Venice Beach, CA in 1980 to induce an uninspired artist, Sonny, to build the first roller disco (yes!). When she accidentally falls in love with him, much to her jealous sister muses' dismay, chaos and fun abound, skate wheels turn and disco balls twirl. The updated script by Douglas Carter Beane takes the plot and dialogue to knee-slapping extremes, while the legendary chart-topping tunes get a musical theatre makeover via a stellar company of performers. This original Broadway cast recording will keep XANADU in your head, and heart, forever.At first glance, turning Olivia Newton-John's 1980 flop musical into a Broadway show looked like a pretty bad idea. Yet the stage version of Xanadu is thrilling and appropriately ridiculous fun. Adapter Douglas Carter Beane went for the camp jugular (thankfully, this CD includes lots of lines from his book), and the cast rises to the occasion, milking every lyric line. Kerry Butler and Cheyenne Jackson bring irrepressible humor and charm to the roles played by Newton-John and Michael Beck, while Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman provide outsize comic relief as muses. The movie's songs, penned either by John Farrar or E.L.O.'s Jeff Lynne, are insanely catchy, one sing-along hit after another: "I'm Alive," "Magic," "Suddenly," "All Over the World," "Xanadu." All are huge treats, but the craziest track may well be "Evil Woman," which doesn't appear in the movie, but during which Testa and Hoffman let loose shamelessly over-the-top vocal effects. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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