Xanadu is a 'Musical Adventure on Wheels' at the Beck Center

Question: What do you get when you combine the 1980s, Roller Disco and the ?

Answer: Xanadu.

What did you think?

The award-winning Broadway hit musical — based on the Universal Pictures' cult classic movie of the same title starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly — kicks off the Beck Center’s 2012-13 professional theater season.

The first locally produced premiere of Xanadu runs on the Beck Center’s Mackey Main Stage from Sept. 14 through Oct. 14. 

Show times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are now on sale.

Xanadu tells the story of Kira, a beautiful Greek muse, who descends from the heavens of Mt. Olympus to Venice Beach to inspire struggling artist Sonny with his greatest artistic creation of all time – the first roller disco.

Completely appropriate for the 1980s. There’s a reason this thing won the 2008 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Musical.

“One of the glorious things about the Broadway musical is that it can wonderfully adapt the latest hit book or movie into a soaring musical, but it can also transcend material that is, well, not so worthy," said director Scott Spence in a news release. 

“Such is the case in Xanadu, where a highly comic evening of theater awaits audiences, despite the source material being from perhaps one of the most awful movies of our time.”

For more information about the show, visit the Beck Center website.

Tickets for Xanadu are $28 for adults, $25 for seniors (65 and older), $17 for students (with valid ID) and $10 for children (12 and under).

An additional $3 service fee per ticket is applied at the time of purchase. Preview Night on Thursday, September 13, is $10 with general admission seating. 

Group discounts are available for parties of 13 or more. Purchase tickets online at beckcenter.org or call Customer Services at 216-521-2540, ext. 10.