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

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Production 

• Overview
• Audience Experience
• Virtual + Real Worlds
• Olympus: Game + Avatars

Technology

• The XR ‘Shrines’
• Generative AI
  
• Mobile WebApp
• Computer Vision
• Lighting + Sound
• System Integration

Process

• Playtesting + Rehearsal
• Full Credits

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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

Olympus: Game +  Avatars 
After Hermes calls Kira to Olympus to face the consequences of expressing her own creativity - and loving a mortal - Sonny and the audience follow Kira to Olympus.  They enter the virtual world and challenge Zeus to let Kira go.  

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

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