BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
#1BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:01pm
Xanadu starring Kerry Butler and Cheyenne Jackson opened up to rave reviews on July 10th, 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre. BroadwayWorld presents this video show preview featuring brand new highlights from the show! Click now to watch!
https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=20958
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#2re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:02pmWoo hoo!!! Thanks Craig!!!
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#2re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:12pmOMG. I love this show more than love itself. Thank you, Craig!
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#5re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:24pmI've been waiting for this!
#4re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:31pmCoding all fixed - sorry about that. There are two different sets of code to make sure it's cross-browser compatible and the 2nd coding had a typo... my bad..
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
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#5re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:39pm
Thanks Craig!
I gotta see this show.
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-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
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#6re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:41pmThanks, Craig! I hope the future tour comes to Dallas!! :)
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#7re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:46pmAWESOME. THANKS A BUNCH!!!
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#8re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:50pmGreat video! I have to see this again with Cheyenne in it.
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#9re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:51pm
Mateo: Go. Now. 
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#10re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 8:38pm
I got my screencap of amazingness from that video.
:sigh: Cheyenne = amazingness love.
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#11re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 8:51pmI saw the show last Sunday. Cheyenne was amazing! Good fun all around and not a bad seat in the house.
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#12re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 9:29pmI'm so happy this is up because it'll sustain me at least until the cast CD is recorded. And Cheyenne Jackson better be in it. That A natural in his power ballad Don't Walk Away (the note is on the word "is" when he sings the lyric "When day is done" for the last time) sounds so good technically and aesthetically in Cheyenne's voice. I'm going to have to see the show again...
#13re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 10:08pmThankyou so much!! This video has made my day!! Cheyenne is awesome and should totally be on the recording!! I feel sorry for James, but I think Cheyenne deserves to be on it!! Thanks again!!
Sarah. C.
#14re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 10:37pmAhh Cheyenne's voice makes me melt every time. Love him!
#15re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 10:47pmI don't know if there was quite enough Cheyenne in that video.
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#16re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 10:50pmOMG OMG OMG!! Thank you soo much!! THis totally made my day, no! It made my weekend! I absolutely love this show!!!
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#17re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/26/07 at 11:42pmThat looks and sounds horrible. WTF?
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#18re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/27/07 at 1:16amWow that's an amazing preview! And I got to see some of "Suspended in Time"!
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#19re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/27/07 at 1:33am
I thought initially this was going to be such c**p.
I was so wrong.
I'm coming across the continent just to see (I still can't believe these words are coming out of my mouth) Xanadu.
I've already apologized for trashing the show and now I have to put my money up there.
Oh, and I wanna see Young Frankenstein, too.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
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http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
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#21re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/27/07 at 4:44am
Loving the camp fest that the last number seems to be.
Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman both look hilarious. Kerry Butler sounds adorable and Cheyenne Jackson has leading man quality oozing out of him.
Those on-stage seats look terrible though.
Will definitely catch this show next time I'm in the city.
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#22re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/27/07 at 9:38am
On stage is awesome. You must try it at least once especially if you've seen it from the front already. It's a completely different experience.
Mary and Jackie are goddesses on stage and they work so well together. I wonder what Annie would be like as the understudy. Someone emailed me on youtube this weekend that she will be filling in sometime this week for Jackie. Not sure if it's true though. People tell me random 'Du news all the time as if I know all. Guess I'm on Olympus...haha I feel special. :o)
But I would love to see Annie's take on it. And I SO want to see Andre's version of Melpomene. I think it would be HYSTERICAL.
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#23re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/27/07 at 10:27am
I saw the show Saturday night for the second time--both onstage--and just being on different parts of the stage literally gives you a different take on the show. Last time, I was in the seats behind Mary and Jackie and this time I was in the left corner right audience/stage left) and I saw much much more of the show than I did before.
It's a 90-minute smile..guess that's the best way I can put it..since if I wasn't laughing out loud the whole time, I was grinning.
#24re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/27/07 at 3:09pm
i.love.u.and.i.hate.u.
This is an AWESOME video! i LOVE it! but it only makes me want to watch the show more and obviously am stuck to London... West End sucks! *cries* I want Xanadu!!!
I reali wanna see 'Have You Ever Felt Mellow?'
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#25re: BWW Video Show Preview: XANADU featuring Butler and Jackson
Posted: 8/27/07 at 3:24pm
I can't stop watching this video!
One of the biggest surprises in many a season (I hadn't laughed so hard and enjoyed myself so much in a theater in a long time before Xanadu)...I'll be posting a review soon hopefully.
Jackie Hoffman and Mary Testa are incomparable.
