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Xanadu [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

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Xanadu Original Broadway Cast CD
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  • Artist: Original Broadway Cast
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 803607085827
  • Item Number: IMG708582
  • Release date: 01/08/2008
  • 1. I'm Alive
  • 2. Magic
  • 3. Evil Woman
  • 4. Suddenly
  • 5. Whenever You're Away From Me
  • 6. Dancin'
  • 7. Strange Magic
  • 8. All Over the World
  • 9. Don't Walk Away
  • 10. Fool
  • 11. The Fall
  • 12. Suspended in Time
  • 13. Have You Never Been Mellow?
  • 14. Xanadu
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Xanadu [Original Broadway Cast Recording] by Original Broadway Cast on CD


Xanadu, the poorly received 1980 movie musical that was a remake of the 1947 movie musical Down to Earth (itself part of a long tradition of goddess-meets-modern-mortals stories that includes such Broadway musicals-turned-movies as I Married an Angel and One Touch of Venus), remains memorable for only one thing: its soundtrack. The album that accompanied the film sold two million copies and spawned five Top 40 hits for hapless star Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra. (The songwriting was split between Newton-John's personal composer John Farrar and ELO's Jeff Lynne.) Bad as the movie may have been, the music probably was what made it seem a bankable prospect for stage adaptation, especially considering that among the four songs interpolated into the score are three more old ELO and Newton-John hits, "Evil Woman," "Strange Magic," and "Have You Never Been Mellow." The producers of the show seem to have been aiming at the approach that made Mamma Mia! a hit, that sort of guilty pleasure aspect of people's helpless enjoyment of the pop music of their adolescence, mixed with a bit of the send-up quality of, say, The Rocky Horror Show. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
  • Artist: Original Broadway Cast
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 803607085827
  • Item Number: IMG708582
  • Release date: 01/08/2008
  • Label: PS Classics
  • Genre: Pop/Rock, Stage & Screen, Classical
  • Style: Adult Contemporary, Soft Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Cast Recordings, Musicals, Soundtracks, Film Music, Show/Musical
  • Album Time: 42:59

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  • Xanadu Original Broadway Cast CD
Xanadu Original Broadway Cast CD