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Xanadu is a convoluted fantasy musical starring Olivia Newton-John and dance nice Gene Kelly in his final characteristic position.
A legendary field workplace bomb and the inspiration for the primary Golden Raspberry Awards, Gene Kelly’s final characteristic movie Xanadu (1980), is a convoluted fantasy musical by which Olivia Newton-John performs a muse of Olympus despatched to earth to assist struggling artist Sonny Malone (Michael Beck) open a nightclub.
Whereas initially met with derision and business failure, time has been variety, and it’s now thought-about a queer cult traditional. Sufficient of 1, the truth is, that it is being offered on the massive display screen this Tuesday as a part of Texas Public Radio’s Cinema Tuesday collection.
There’s catchy music by Electrical Gentle Orchestra (together with not simply the title monitor however the classics “Magic” and “All Over the World”), a Forties sensibility, colourful units, voluminous quantities of fog, a wacky animated interlude and in depth curler skating.
The sweetness of the romance and the elegy of seeing the not too long ago departed Newton-John in peak coiffed splendor hit particularly laborious throughout these grim occasions.
Prompt donation $12 (members), $17 (non-members), 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 23, Santikos Northwest, 7600 I-10, (877) 691-0734, santikos.com/san-antonio/northwest/theater-info.Subscribe to SA Present newsletters.
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