This is my piece on Xanadu, originally published in the Straight.
Xanadu is cheese served on skates
Xanadu is a campy ode to, and sendup of, the ’80s roller-disco movie musical
By Andrea Warner, June 21, 2012
Marlie Collins and Gaelan Beatty get kitschy in Xanadu.
“And you’re skating away, looking over your shoulder at him while he watches you…”
Glide, glide, backwards glance, bang! As director Dean Paul Gibson guides her, Marlie Collins, the tall blond star of the Arts Club’s production of Xanadu, stumbles on her rollerskates and botches her exit from the Granville Island Stage. Gibson barely pauses. “Perhaps a bit more gracefully next time?” he suggests playfully without missing a beat.
