The Xanadu Sing Along!

[Sheeplovr]

THE XANADU SING ALONG!
The original 1980 film back on the big screen
With Audience Participation and more!
Friday & Saturday, July 11 & 12 @ midnight
at the IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue, New York City
Advance tickets available soon! (link posted as soon as available)

Before it became a Tony-award nominated Broadway smash, XANADU was one of the most notorious bombs in Hollywood history.

But what a glorious failure! Featuring a slew of classic tunes from Olivia Newton John and The Electric Light Orchestra, there isn't a moment of this campy cinematic mess that isn't a toe-tapping delight.

So, for this special big screen presentation of the "classic" 1980 film, we're inviting the audience to do more than just watch their jaws hit the floor (typical reaction: "Um, did the main characters really just turn into fish?") -- we are encouraging all the Xana-fans sing and dance along with their favorite songs!!!

At the XANADU SING ALONG we're not only screening the movie, but providing the lyrics to sing along, as well as a grab bag of props and list of audience interactive moments to coincide with what's happening on the screen. And yes, we will all get on the stage and dance.

Before the film we'll also be presenting some extra special Xanadu trivia, Olivia Newton John video clips, and other Xana-fun.



Filled with hilarious moments (often unintentional) pouring off the screen, there is nothing about XANADU that is not resplendently insane! 80s icon Olivia Newton John plays Kira, a muse of the Greek god Zeus disguised in leg warmers and roller skates. She is summoned to Earth to inspire lonely album cover artist Sonny Malone (The Warriors star Michael Beck) and retired big-band musician Danny McGuire (Gene Kelley!) to team up and build a giant roller disco named Xanadu. No, really. The film is directed with neon music-video panache by Robert Greenwald, the same guy who now makes incendiary political documentaries about Fox News and Wal-Mart.



Produced by the creators of last year's smash interactive cinema hit, The Buffy The Vampire Slayer Sing Along, this interactive big-screen sing along XANADU screening is a cinematic celebration that is not to be missed!

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i went to the buffy singalong once it was alot of fun i wish they could still do them but this looks fun who's interested

[Ritalin]

Can you go if you're not gay?

(doesn't sound like it)

[Tall_James]

I remember that they did the "Sound of Music" singalong a few years ago. I'd be more likely to do that because Xanadu doesn't have Nazis and the backdrop of WWII.

I hope you have fun!

[Hottub]

I'll wait for the Fame sing along.

[Sinestro]

sounds like a Yelp moment.

[Coach]

I remember that they did the "Sound of Music" singalong a few years ago. I'd be more likely to do that because Xanadu doesn't have Nazis and the backdrop of WWII.

I hope you have fun!I was at one of those "Sound of Music" sing alongs..A bunch of us went dressed as nuns (girls and guys)..we had a blast and were pretty drunk. Our friend was one of the people who set it up. Wonder if she is behind this one!

[Coach]

I'll wait for the Fame sing along. If only for the black girls weeping and unbuttoning their shirts.

[FezPaul]

I have often sung along with Xanadu.

"To seek the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
To break my fast on honeydew
And drink the milk of Paradise..."

I had heard the whispered tales of immortality
The deepest mystery
From an ancient book I took a clue
I scaled the frozen mountain tops of eastern lands unknown
Time and Man alone
Searching for the lost Xanadu

Xanadu...

To stand within the Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honeydew
And drink the milk of Paradise

A thousand years have come and gone but time has passed me by
Stars stopped in the sky
Frozen in an everlasting view
Waiting for the world to end, weary of the night
Praying for the light
Prison of the lost
Xanadu

Xanadu...

Held within the Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste my bitter triumph
As a mad immortal man
Nevermore shall I return
Escape these caves of ice
For I have dined on honeydew
And drunk the milk of Paradise

Or is it Paradise??

[Badinia]

If you build it, they will come- and SKATE!

A place
where nobody dared to go
the love that we came to know
We call it Xanadu

The disco versus swing scene always brings tears to my eyes, because I hate for Gene Kelly go out on a brown note.

[fezident]

I love that movie.

When I was a kid, I watched XANADU, THE JAZZ SINGER, and THE IDOLMAKER about a hundred times.
ROCK AND ROLL, MOTHER F'ERS!!

[Sheeplovr]

Can you go if you're not gay?

(doesn't sound like it)

fuck you im going
and im not sucking no cock

i say the 11th of july

[Tall_James]

fuck you im going
and im not sucking no cock

i say the 11th of july

Sheepy, fix that double negative ASAP!