Xanadu
UCLA Department of Theater
UCLA REMAP
May, 2025
Expanded website coming in July, 2025.

Production 

Technology

Process

XANADU

Book by Douglas Carter Beane. 

Music & Lyrics by Jeff Lynne & John Farrar. 

Directed by Mira Winick & Corey Wright.

Produced by Jeff Burke. 

XANADU was presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Generative Artificial Intelligence

The production’s custom AI systems turned audience contributions (via sketches) into elements of the show’s virtual world during the performance, as well as to create choroegraphy for an audience particiption sequence.  

Students, faculty, and research staff from REMAP and the Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) contributed to this experimental aspect of the production. The creative team also explored the integration of AI into sound, lighting, and visual design concept development alongside a variety of conventional techniques.

Xanadu’s Generative AI systems were hosted on Amazon Web Services and developed through support from the Amazon MGM Studios Innovative Storytellers Initiative.  


Photos by Makela Yopez, Kexin Liu, Sheila Hudson Masters, Jeff Burke. 
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