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'Xanadu' skates out from Broadway

"Xanadu," Broadway's gleeful 90-minute roller-skating musical, will close on Oct. 12 after 528 performances at the Helen Hayes Theater. While "Xanadu" never became a sold-out hit, it did perform far more strongly than first expected.

When announced as a Broadway musical, we all wondered why would anyone want to put the worst movie musical of all time onstage. But as luck would have it, the...

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