It's so great.
Just a few lines:
"With a complicitous wink at the audience that's never overplayed, the creatives and cast at every turn cheekily point up the irony of charging Rialto prices for recycled trash. The less-than-lavish physical aspects of Christopher Ashley's gleefully low-rent production further the point, saving most of the budget for the mirror balls that cascade from the flies during the show's eponymous closing number. The constraints of double casting, of a limited ensemble (the nine sister muses are downsized to seven) and craptastic effects are part of the joke rather than a shortcoming audiences are likely to mind.
Stepping in for co-star James Carpinello, who broke a foot during previews, Cheyenne Jackson played Sonny opposite Krakowski in the workshop. That adds to his ease in the role of the directionless pavement artist touched by drive, creativity and love when other-worldly Kyra steps out of his mural depicting "Ancient Greek arty chicks." His buff arms and waxed legs on display in tank top and cutoffs throughout, Jackson plays the soulful dumb hunk to endearing perfection." ---- Variety
"Yes, Xanadu is now on Broadway, at the Helen Hayes. Perhaps the least-expected and least-anticipated of all film-to-stage adaptations is delivering more good times (and lower risk of injury) than you could have found at a roller rink back in the day. Librettist Douglas Carter Beane, whose play The Little Dog Laughed was seen on Broadway last season, and director Christopher Ashley might have set out to make fun of the misbegotten 1980 Universal picture, but have instead succeeded in making 90 minutes worth of fun unequaled by most of New York's other recent musicals"--- Talkin Broadway
"Xanadu, the jaw-droppingly awful 1980 film that sank Olivia Newton-John's movie career yet couldn't kill roller disco, has been turned into a fast, funny little stage musical. Quite a transformation.
It may not start a new fad for leg warmers, headbands and the thump-thump sounds of the Electric Light Orchestra, but the 90-minute show, which opened Tuesday, July 10, at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre, cheerfully (and with camp to spare) does a bang-up job at entertainment. "--- Associate Press.
That's just a sample of the great reviews.
I couldn't be happier for Cheyenne, Kerry, and the cast!
The show is fantastic and deserves all the praise it gets! :)
So, beyond that.
Life is pretty: Eh.
Work pretty much everyday.
I miss NY, like badly.
I wish I was there right now.
Being here in crappy Jersey is icky.
It's ridiclous how much I wish I lived in NY.
Ugh.
I'm off work on Friday and Saturday.
I wish I could go to NY.
I may, if someone will go with me.
And the Summer Theater kids.
Their doing their show
While, I await the week I can go visit.
I wish I could join them
I wish alot of things, actually.
Oh well. I keep wishing on a star, and maybe my wish will come true.
Why do I say
Don't walk away
You'll be the way you were before
When you don't want me anymore
Don't turn around
Don't ever leave
A lonely room where empty days
Are gathering to meet me when you're gone, gone
How in the world will I go on
Don't walk away)
All you gotta do is stay
(Don't walk away)
All you gotta do is stay
(Don't walk away)
Don't walk away (don't walk away),
Don't say goodbye (don't say goodbye)
Don't turn around (don't turn around),
Don't let it die (don't let it die)
When shadows fall (when shadows fall),
When day is done (when day is done)
All through the night (all through the night),
All of my life (all of my life)
Don't walk away
Is it a dream,
When will it end
When everything we've ever known
Has ended and I'm all alone
----- Don't Walk Away from Xanadu
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