Xanadu/Fanadu love thread! — Page 2

You should totally make the trek to Chicago! The show fits much more "snug" in the Drury Lane than it did at the Playhouse, and the result is a much more intimate experience. And the audiences here LOVE the show. They're very vocal!

So... question. Is the current Chicago production open-ended?

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Here's what the Chicago Tribune states:

"According to the producers, there are two likely scenarios (assuming one discounts box-office disaster). One is that "Xanadu" stays in Chicago through the summer and then this production becomes the real national tour, which goes out in the fall. The other is that the show has even stronger legs and can be recast (probably with local actors) here in the fall, remaining in Chicago indefinitely while the first cast leaves with the tour."

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2009/01/xanadu.html
ChicagoTribune.com Article "'Xanadu starts tonight: Shortage of mirror balls reported in Chicago

Fun! Max must be quite popular, my friend and I met another friend of his the other day :)

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I'm sure we'll be around as long as possible if people keep coming.

Me dos!! I am so excited for tomorrow! It's been a long week and Xanadu will be the perfect pick-me-up :)

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Has anybody waited at the stage door and met anyone? If so, where is this stage door, or did the cast just leave through the theatre lobby?

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Some nights its the lobby, some nights its the stage door. It varies every night, and they don't all exit the same way.

Tonight an usher told us the door was outside and that we should go there because no one was coming out our way, and 3 minutes later almost the entire cast was in the lobby lol it seems like a random stage door, kind of like at Jersey Boys where there's many exits the actors take.

Speaking of tonight, the show ROCKED! (again lol) It was great to see it from onstage, I plan to go back many many times. I wish I could write a longer or more coherent synopsis of tonight's events but my brain is just not there. OH but I should mention there was this really really creepy guy sitting onstage in one of the 'single' seats, his friend was in the other single across the stage from him and he kept on whooping, making faces and gestures to his friend, and did some other creepy things I'd rather not mention haha. There's a fine line with that sort of behavior onstage, imo he crossed it. But, aside from creeper, the show was great!! :) We also met Max Von Essen and Elizabeth Stanley after the show and they were both incredibly nice, they signed our playbills and took pictures. Squee, I can't wait to go back!

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^ Were you there tonight? I wanted to punch that guy in the face! He was so very annoying. I gave him several dirty glances, and a few head shakes. But unfortunately they didn't help. Oh well. But I got tickets for February 21st!

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I would just wait in the lobby.

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We could see the entire theatre, and you definitely were not the only one standing up and making an idiot of yourself.

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