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Posted: 7/2/07 at 4:24pm
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/blogs/wolcott
Xanadu is kitsch, and camp, and self-critiquing kitsch-camp, a merry combo of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ("Calliope, come hither" "I'm already hither") and Mamma Mia!
Let me say what must be said, otherwise that subway mouse shall pursue me in my sleep.
I loved Mamma Mia! And I loved Xanadu, as did the audience, and I loved the audience for loving Xanadu.
It was like taking Ecstasy in Broadway ticket form.
Our love glinted and radiated and swirled like the reflections of the mirrored disco ball that crowned the climax of the show's pagan revels.
The belle of the ball is Kerry Butler's Kira/Clio. She is a flowing vision on roller skates, a blonde creamy confection of Olivia Newton-John, the divine Kyle Minogue, and Sarah Michelle-Gellar. She does things to vowels with her mock-Australian accent that should earn her a birdbath perch on musical-comedy Mt. Olympus. I truly, truly dug what she was doing, and I shall now pause to run a comb through my hair.
The supporting cast had it rocking, and I was tickled to see a former CBGB confederate, Annie Golden (former lead singer of The Shirts), taking a bow at the end as the audience clapped along to the finale reprise. Then we poured out into the streets, where there was a major police action near the Nasdaq HQ, at least a dozen police cars with lights flashing.
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Xanadu is kitsch, and camp, and self-critiquing kitsch-camp, a merry combo of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ("Calliope, come hither" "I'm already hither") and Mamma Mia!
Let me say what must be said, otherwise that subway mouse shall pursue me in my sleep.
I loved Mamma Mia! And I loved Xanadu, as did the audience, and I loved the audience for loving Xanadu.
It was like taking Ecstasy in Broadway ticket form.
Our love glinted and radiated and swirled like the reflections of the mirrored disco ball that crowned the climax of the show's pagan revels.
The belle of the ball is Kerry Butler's Kira/Clio. She is a flowing vision on roller skates, a blonde creamy confection of Olivia Newton-John, the divine Kyle Minogue, and Sarah Michelle-Gellar. She does things to vowels with her mock-Australian accent that should earn her a birdbath perch on musical-comedy Mt. Olympus. I truly, truly dug what she was doing, and I shall now pause to run a comb through my hair.
The supporting cast had it rocking, and I was tickled to see a former CBGB confederate, Annie Golden (former lead singer of The Shirts), taking a bow at the end as the audience clapped along to the finale reprise. Then we poured out into the streets, where there was a major police action near the Nasdaq HQ, at least a dozen police cars with lights flashing.
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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
