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Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical is an original musical written and produced in 1953 by Seventh Army Special Services in Germany the first of the numerous stage musicals film musicals and songs inspired in part by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan with its familiar opening lines:In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decreeWhere Alph the sacred river ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.The score was written by a songwriting team William P.