Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
#1Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:10pm
http://www.wgntv.com/video/?clipId=3401675&topVideoCatNo=71157&c=&autoStart=true&activePane=info&LaunchPageAdTag=homepage&clipFormat=flv
Kind of an awkward performance, but still fun. I wish they did a different song though.
TheCharleston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/08
#2re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:16pmyeah. wow. very awkward.
#2re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:37pmwell there's 4 minutes of buffering I'll never get back
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#3re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:39pmAwkward indeed.
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#4re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:32pm
They dont sound as good as the OBC! Stanley looks great though! Kinda sucks! .."kinda" or borderlining ~ that its painful to watch!
J*
Updated On: 2/2/09 at 09:32 PM
tourboi
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/05
#5re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:36pmI think it needs to be mentioned that this was on an early AM news show after all. VERY early in the morning.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#6re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:39pm
Well, apparently I can dream big and be in a Bedding Experts commercial.
...But not watch the video.
#7re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:39pm
You know_ I just realized that song was hard to appreciate on TV. I think Jackson & Butler sang that song in a morning show in NYC ( I will look for the clip) and everyone here had the same reaction- awkward.
Its good- to see it in the context of the Restoration of Xanadu with the muses clothed as muses and audience participation. That song JUST DONT WORK on TV> Dont know why they keep singing it?
J*
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#8re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:41pmOh god. Just saw it. Horrific.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:46pmIts kind of sad when you're upstaged by a bedding experts commercial.
#10re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:59pmI want to be forgiving, but seriously, they really should have just kept it simple. Instead they throw in the kitchen sink.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Byron Abens
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/08
#11re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 10:12pmIt is also mixed very, very poorly. Whoever this show's sound mixer was apparently has never had to do so for a musical.
#12re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 10:44pmooooh....not the greatest. Don't judge this cast by this video, though! Having seen the show once in New York and twice now in Chicago, I assure you it is well worth seeing! Elizabeth Stanley, Max Von Essen, and the entire ensemble are both hilarious and extremely talented as live performers. It must've been an early morning for them lol.
#13re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 10:51pmJaystarr, I think you're referring to the OBC's performance on the Regis and Kelly show when they performed All Around the World there. I just rewatched it on youtube, and it seems to be almost the same arrangement, just without EVERYONE in the show (standbys, understudys, ect) like they did in this performance.
#14re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/2/09 at 11:31pmI just wished they could've found more colorful outfits. The ensemble just bled into the background. At least when the Broadway cast dressed up for appearances, it looked like someone either dressed them or encouraged them to go crazy choosing clothes.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#15re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/3/09 at 8:06amI thought they did a good job.
Dolly_Levi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/8/04
#16re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/3/09 at 11:17amI think Max's voice is a bit too legit sounding for these songs to work. He is clearly a great singer, but it seems weird here.
#17re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/3/09 at 11:40amYeah, those early morning Chicago news performances never come off well. The Xanadu performance looks like a professional Broadway filming compared to many of the train wrecks that often air here.
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#18re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/3/09 at 3:18pmI love the show, and saw it 3 times on Broadway, but if I hadn't, and saw that... I would be very turned off.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#19re: Xanadu tour cast performs All Around the World
Posted: 2/3/09 at 4:09pm
Wow, that was painful...
Max's voice definitely doesn't sound right.
It also doesn't help that Stanley is taller than him in the skates... :-/
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