Xanadu on Broadway

Artist	Original Broadway Cast
Format	CD
Genre	Soundtrack
Label Name	PS Classics
Producer	Jeffrey Lesser
Release Date	2008 01 08
Song List	1: I'm Alive (4:03) 2: Magic (3:03) 3: Evil Woman (2:40) 4: Suddenly (3:38) 5: Whenever You're Away from Me (3:59) 6: Dancin' (2:28) 7: Strange Magic (2:01) 8: All Over the World (3:17) 9: Don't Walk Away (3:38) 10: Fool (1:27) 11: The Fall (2:02) 12: Suspended in Time (2:56) 13: Have You Never Been Mellow (3:24) 14: Xanadu (4:23)
Style.Categories	Film Music, Soundtracks, Musicals, Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Adult Contemporary

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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, All Music Guide