Xanadu on Broadway (Original Broadway Cast Recording 2007)
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Free Music Review: It certainly du!
Hit: 4 Stars
If you ever saw the original Xanadu film, consider yourself blessed, not cursed. For now, you have the background to fully understand and appreciate this wonderful homage/parody that was adapted/written by Douglas Carter Beane. In the new Broadway production, Cheyenne and Kerry bring an under-recognized score to life!! Farrar and ELO wrote some amazing songs. It is only ashamed that the other creative forces (not you, Olivia) involved in this film screwed up. There's really no other way to put it but: Cheyenne rocks!! Kerry rules!!Free Music Review: Kerry Butler is paid to sing lke this?
Hit: 1 Stars
Wow, I bought this disc solely based on my affection for the original motion soundtrack to Xanadu...And I warn you not to make the same mistake I did. Kerry Butler's voice is so horrendously nasil it will annoy and anger you all at once. Really, were the producers of this show deaf? Admittedly, yea, that sounds insulting and juvenile, but I really can't fathom the quality of a voice like hers translating to entertainment for anyone. She's like the popular chick in high school who got the lead in the senior play simply because she was blonde and perceived pretty, which of course interprets talent these days. But kidding aside, this is worse than camp, beyond kitsch, yet incomprehensibly meant to entertain. I could have been--and did try to be--more lenient on this recording, but really, it is Kerry Butler's vocal that kills it, even when the unenthusiastic and amateurish instrumental behind her and the other vocalists (who are quite capable, by the way) is hard to forgive. I apologize to those of you who are adoring this adaptation, but tell me, what are you hearing? Free Music Review: THE MOST FUN CD OF THE YEAR!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Original Broadway cast album for XANADU may possibly be the most fun of the year (certainly more witty than, say, Mel Brooks' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN). Kerry Butler's jaw-droppingly hilarious take on Olivia Newton-John, Cheyenne Jackson's creamy vocals, the hilarious duo of Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa, and a killer chorus make this CD a must have! "Don't Walk Away" is a triumph on disc, as is "Magic", "Evil Woman" and "I'm Alive!" The packaging is up to PS Classics strict standards, and tops most of the past years, capturing aurally and visually everything fantastic about the little Broadway musical that could.Free Music Review: XANADU CONTINUES A GREAT LEGACY IN AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDY
Hit: 5 Stars
There was A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, there was SPAMALOT, and now there is XANADU, the funniest show currently playing on Broadway and the first ever ELO musical. And of course, here is where I got the cast album to go along with it. I love this album because each of the songs are masterful pop songs, Produced here under the brilliant, Award-winning musical director, Eric Stern. The cast of top notch Broadway stars, all at the top of their careers, creates the stuff of legend. From the exhilarating, opening track of "I'm Alive", in which the Muses from Ancient Greece descend to Venice Beach, California in the fated year of 1980 to the smooth love ballad send-up of "Suddenly", in which the stunning Kerry Butler and dream boat Cheyenne Jackson conjure up endless high school first kisses, through funny-lady extraordinaires' Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa's zany rendition of "Evil Woman", to the rousing, youthful and inspiring power ballad, "Don't Walk Away", this COMEDY album keeps on giving. While celebrating pop masterminds' Jeff Lynne and John Farrar with reverent accuracy and lushness, the album does not shy away from the brilliance of what the Broadway hit is: a satire. The story of this album, like the Broadway show, is one of alchemy. Here, the musicians, singers, Producers and playwright Douglas Carter Beane, the show's creator, use the Broadway Cast Album to celebrate the creative process of artists and entertainers, and their ability to transform a very bad thing into something joyous and life affirming. The bad thing, in this case, is obviously the iconic idea of "badness" that shrouds the 1980 film's legacy. The transformation is what the artists connected to Broadway's most celebrated musical of the year have achieved both on the stage and on this beautiful record. Get it, laugh with it - hell - laugh at it - they don't care. They just want you to feel good about being alive! Free Music Review: Xanadu Rocks
Hit: 5 Stars
I've seen the show 7 times and played it a zillion. So much fun and the cast is perfect. Cheyenne Jackson has a voice of gold and every word that Jackie says cracks me up every time. Just a lot of fun and a great way to get your mind off problems you are facing. If I could give it 20 stars, I would. Highly recommended.