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Let’s Go To Out Front launches season with first full post-pandy production By Mike Fleming ATLANTA’S LGBTQ THEATRICAL troupe kicked off its 2021-22 live-theater season on Oct. 21 with three fun-filled weeks of the musical favorite, “Xanadu.” The show Out Front Theatre’s first fullscale production since March 2020. It follows online offerings, a few live events and months of creative and ingenious pandemic pivots. So “Xanadu.” Wow. The 1980 camp classic film-turned-2007 Broadway hit is just as hilarious, fantastical, kitschy and roller-skate-licious as gay audiences want and need it to be. The story follows the Greek muse Kira, who descends from Mount Olympus onto Venice Beach, Calif. All the funk and fun goes down on her quest to help struggling artist Sonny achieve his creative masterpiece – the first roller disco. “But, when Kira falls into forbidden love with the mortal Sonny, her jealous sisters take advantage of the 14 theQatl.com
situation, and chaos abounds!” the production promises. The stage musical was Tony-nominated with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and Music and Lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farmer. And yes, it is based on the 1980 Universal Pictures film with a screenplay by Richard Danus & Marc
