Movie flop Xanadu finds better reviews on Broadway stage
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Xanadu was a box office flop blamed by some critics for turning Hollywood off musicals for more than a decade, but the 1980 film has found a new home and better reviews on Broadway.
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Concert-stage performances of American Indian dance and music are rare in New York City. But âThe Drum Is the Thunder, the Flute Is the Windâ was often disappointing.
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&quot;The theater? They&#39;ll just  take some stinkeroo movie ... throw it on a stage, and call it  a show.&quot;
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The currently running Broadway musical âXanadu,â based on the famously atrocious 1980 movie, is simply disabling everybody one by one.
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Perhaps it is time for Broadway to forge ahead in adapting some of the truly awful movie offerings of the decade for the stage.
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The musical adaptation of &quot;The Lord of the Rings&quot; is off and running in London, after mixed reviews that questioned whether the most expensive stage work in history is really worth the money.
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While the notoriously misguided film, âXanadu,â might seem a peculiar choice for resurrection, there is something almost as unusual about those behind it: all six of the musicalâs above-the-title producers are Broadway neophytes.
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David Greig's new play is more pedantic than discomfiting, despite the ugly immediacy of the events it portrays.
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A musical of The Ten Commandments cancels three performances per week after bad reviews. Plus other entertainment news in brief.
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The cartoon favorite makes a killing at the box office.
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The American Ballet Theaterâs new production of âThe Sleeping Beautyâ opens on Friday after months of tantalizing rumors about its staging and choreography.
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The Nicolas Cage starrer does not have many hair-raising sequences.
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Theatre critics appeared less than impressed by Hollywood star Kevin Spacey&#39;s debut as artistic director of London&#39;s Old Vic Theatre.
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The hit musical gets a surprising Oscar snub, leaving Babel as the Best Picture frontrunner. Richard Corliss's analysis
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Unlike major movie chains, many Broadway theaters have lagged behind (pun intended) when it comes to the most basic of audience amenities: their seats.
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Critics are left largely unimpressed at the opening night of the Lord of the Rings musical on the London stage.
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Movie epic Alexander opens in the US to a poor reception from critics but is backed by novelist Gore Vidal.