Xanadu [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
Original Broadway Cast - CD
- 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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- South Pacific [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
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- Hazel Flagg [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
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- Composers:
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Performers:
- Andre Ward - Vocals
- Andrew Ward - Vocals
- Anika Larsen - Vocals
- Annie Golden - Vocals
- Cheyenne Jackson - Vocals
- Chris Biederfeldt - Guitar
- Curtis Holbrook - Vocals
- Eric Halvorson - Drums
- Eric Stern - Keyboards
- Erik Halvorson - Drums
- Jackie Hoffman - Vocals
- Karl Mansfield - Keyboards
- Kenita Miller - Vocals
- Kerry Butler - Vocals
- Mary Testa - Vocals
- Patti Murin - Vocals
- Tony Roberts - Vocals
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Credits:
- Clifton Guterman - Editorial Coordinator
- Douglas Carter Beane - Synopsis, Book, Liner Notes
- Eric Stern - Music Direction, Arranger
- Steve Channon - Photo Manipulation
- Jeff Lynne - Lyricist, Composer
- Karl Mansfield - Synthesizer Programming
- Joe Lambert - Mastering
- John Farrar - Lyricist, Composer
- Paul Kolnik - Photography
- Philip Chaffin - A&R, Executive Producer
- Tommy Krasker - Executive Producer
- Bart Migal - Editing, Engineer
- Jeffrey Lesser - Audio Production, Producer
- Todd Whitelock - Engineer
