Jump Into the Wayback Machine this Weekend with 'Xanadu'

Via Farmington Public Schools ListServ:

A roller disco, leg warmers, and Olivia Newton-John can only mean one thing – a trip to the 80s!

Under the direction of Dean Cobb, Sue Cobb, Lucy Koviak, Tom Schroeder and Joel Yoder, the students of Harrison High are ready to take you on a journey to “Xanadu” that you won’t soon forget.

“Xanadu,” the Tony Award-nominated hilarious roller-skating musical adventure is “the outlandishly enjoyable stage spoof of the outrageously bad Olivia Newton-John movie” of the same name.

It follows the journey of a magical and beautiful Greek muse, Kira, who descends from the heavens of Mt. Olympus to Venice Beach, California in 1980 on a quest to inspire a struggling artist, Sonny, to achieve the greatest artistic creation of all time (drum roll, please) – the first roller disco. (Hey, it’s 1980!) But, when Kira falls into forbidden love with the mortal Sonny, her jealous sisters, Melpomen and Calliope take advantage of the situation and chaos abounds.

The cast is led by Kate Kreiss as the roller skating muse, Kira, and Nick Serafa (Cast B) and Zack Heger (Cast A) as the naïve, dreamer Sonny.

Rounding out the cast is Rahul Gannapureddy (Cast B) and Adam Blugerman (Cast A) in the role of Danny, the brash businessman, Kira’s sisters Melpomene (Margaret Merogi), Calliope (Emily Washington), Terpsicore (Erin Smith), Thalia (Tessa Williams), and Euterpe (Bridget Smith); as well as many other roles and our Greek Chorus being filled by the remainder of the 50 cast members.

The music of “Xanadu” is an impressive mixture of chart-topping ‘80s songs which includes “Evil Woman,” “Have You Never Been Mellow,” “Strange Magic” and “Xanadu,” so get ready to hum along!

Performances at are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29 (Cast A); 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30 (Cast B); 7:30p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31 (Cast A); and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1 (Cast B).

Tickets are available during all lunch hours at Harrison and through the box office by calling 248-888-6274, as well as at the door beginning one hour before each performance. Ticket prices are $12 for students and senior adults (60+) and $15 for adults.

Harrison High School is located at 29995 West 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, west of Middlebelt Road.

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Photo of Olivia Newton-John via Universal Studios