
By Romeo San Vicente
Xanadu Will Skate Again Off-Broadway
As if musical
theater wasn't gay enough, we now have a stage version of the queer cult
classic Xanadu to look forward to.
Boasting a book by gay playwright Douglas Carter Beane (The
Little Dog Laughed), Xanadu will have four invitation-only
workshop performances in New York City in January before a proposed
spring run off-Broadway.
If you haven't seen the movie, turn in your gay card - the musical tells
the story of Terpsichore, one of the seven mythological Muses, who comes
to Earth as a young woman named Kira.
There she inspires an artist and an aging jazz musician to open Xanadu,
a spectacular roller-disco palace.
If the show's a hit, look for peasant blouses, roller skates, and
feathered hair to hit the mainstream again.
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