XANADU Reviews- Page 3

[jaystarr]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:07pm

OOps. I made a typo ! I mean Hollywood Reporter- sorry about that !

J*

[bjh2114]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:09pm

HAHA, no worries. I was just like "what?" lol.

[Dirty_Rotten_Guy]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:13pm

im suprised the show has been getting this good of reviews so far
it deserves to be :)

lets hope the times is positive, and then yeah, itll be good stuff

[Testing1232]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:13pm

So far, so good !!! :))

[bjh2114]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:13pm

Also, I would call Word of Mouth positive and Variety a rave. So just switch them. Also, Curtains, Hollywood Reporter was not mixed to negative...it was WAY NEGATIVE.
So the tally is:
2 Raves (Variety and AP)
3 Positive (Word of Mouth, NY1, and Talkin' Broadway)
1 Flat out pan (Hollywood Reporter)

[jaystarr]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:13pm

I think Word of Mouth is - rave ...

J*


Updated On: 7/10/07 at 09:13 PM

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:19pm

When did the show start tonight?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:20pm

The show's long over by now.

[KimmySwimmy]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:24pm

if you do a search on yahoo you will find a few pictures from the curtain call...not sure how to post them here.

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:25pm

ahh, thanks yankeefan007

[Testing1232]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:30pm

Looked like it got started really late tonight (just by the number of people still meandering outside the theatre close to 7PM)

Wouldnt be surpised if it ended after 9PM-

[Testing1232]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:41pm

Love the fact that Variety mentioned Curtis' tap !!

[jaystarr]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:50pm

For NYTIMES...Isherwood or Brantley ? any guess?

J*

[Dirty_Rotten_Guy]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 9:53pm

im thinking Brantley...

[morosco]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:02pm

Brantley is up. It's pretty much a rave.
Updated On: 7/10/07 at 10:02 PM

[Testing1232]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:03pm

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/theater/reviews/11xana.html?ref=theater

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:06pm

"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 about a painter and his muse who find love at a roller disco in Los Angeles.

Why, you may wonder, would anyone deem it necessary, or even worthwhile, to pay lavish mock homage to a dreadful movie by exhuming it for exhibition onstage? Has Broadway nothing better to do? Has the American musical theater reached such a nadir of inspiration?

Well, yeah. I guess. Whatever. Why pester me with silly questions when there’s so much silly bliss to be had at the Helen Hayes Theater, where the new, improved “Xanadu” opened last night? In any case, Douglas Carter Beane, the impish playwright who has ingeniously adapted the screenplay for the stage (while wearing a Hazmat suit, I hope), trumps such hectoring queries by acknowledging the inanity of the enterprise himself. In his adorably ditzy new book for the musical, Mr. Beane posits 1980, the year “Xanadu” dawned and the year in which the stage version is set, as a cultural turning point. “The muses are in retreat,” muses the god Zeus, played by Tony Roberts, in the musical’s poignant climax. (Kidding!) “Creativity shall remain stymied for decades. The theater? They’ll just take some stinkeroo movie or some songwriter’s catalog, throw it onstage and call it a show.”

Prophetic words, mighty Zeus..."

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:06pm

Its Isherwood.

[morosco]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:07pm

Oops. Charles Isherwood. Sorry all.

[Anakela]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:07pm

Isherwood, not Brantley...I was shocked thinking Brantley had given it a rave.


eta: I do like this part from Isherwood, though: "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."
Updated On: 7/10/07 at 10:07 PM

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:08pm

New York Times (Isherwood) gave it a rave.

BTW - CapnHook gives it a rave, too.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:09pm

I wouldn't call it a rave.

Definitely a money review, but he does have some slightly negative words to say.

[broadwayboy1017]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:10pm

very good NY TIMES review!!

[bjh2114]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:11pm

Score 1 for Isherwood. Personally, my favorite line:
"She’s got a lovely line in arabesque on those skates, too! Can Audra McDonald or Kristin Chenoweth do that?"

Does anyone think that this is a slight stab (in total jest) at Brantley from his fellow New York Times reviewer, lol?

[Curtains07]

Posted: 7/10/07 at 10:11pm

A RAVE from the Times! :0
I smell $$$!