Tags: Musical.
Xanadu is a musical comedy with a book by Douglas Carter Beane and music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar based on the 1980 cult classic film of the same name which was in turn inspired by the 1947 Rita Hayworth film Down to Earth a sequel to the 1941 movie Here Comes Mr. Jordan which was an adaptation of the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall. The title is a reference to the poem Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream. A Fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.