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''Xanadu'' is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar, based on the 1980 cult classic film of the same name, which was, in turn, inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth film ''Down to Earth'', a sequel to the 1941 movie ''Here Comes Mr. Jordan'', which was an adaptation of the play ''Heaven Can Wait'' by Harry Segall. The title is a reference to the poem ''Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment,'' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Xanadu is the name of the Chinese province where Khan establishes his pleasure garden in the poem. The musical opened on Broadway in 2007 and ran for over 500 performances. It earned an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical and a Drama Desk Award for Best Book. It was also nominated for Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Book. The US Tour officially began on December 15, 2009, in the Orange County Performing Arts Center. A Korean production has opened, and a national tour and several foreign productions are planned. ==Background== The 1980 film on which ''Xanadu'' is based barely broke even at the box office and received uniformly unfavorable reviews, but the soundtrack was a commercial hit, as were several of the songs singularly. Although the film was nominated for six Razzies, winning one for worst director, it became a cult classic. Announcements that the film would be adapted as a Broadway show drew skepticism and even derision, even from Carter Beane, who adapted the script.〔Martin, Michael. ("Springtime for 'Xanadu'", ) ''New York Magazine'', May 28, 2007〕 According to Beane, in rewriting the script for the musical, he was influenced not only by the 1980 ''Xanadu'' film, but also by the 1981 fantasy film ''Clash of the Titans'', prompting him to add the subplot "in which Kira’s jealous sister-muses doom her to fall in love with a mortal, incurring the wrath of their father, Zeus."〔 He has noted that the stage musical focuses more on the Greek mythology plotlines but has "a lot of () references to the movie."〔Robert Viagas, (Information from Playbill.com news ), ''Playbill'' Online, May 10, 2007〕 The score retains the hits from the film and also includes new arrangements by Eric Stern of "I'm Alive," "Magic," "Suddenly," and "Dancin'," as well as interpolating two classic Electric Light Orchestra songs, "Strange Magic" and "Evil Woman," plus Farrar's "Have You Never Been Mellow." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Xanadu (musical)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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