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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

Overview
In this musical based on the 1979 cult classic film with Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly, the Greek muse Clio comes to Venice, California in 1980.  Taking the name Kira, she inspires the struggling artist Sonny Malone to open the pinnacle of all artistic venues:  a roller disco.

Mira Winick and Corey Wright directed our experimental, immersive production of Xanadu at UCLA in 2025.   Produced by Jeff Burke for the Department of Theater and the Center for Research in Engineering, Media, and Performance (REMAP), it explored the use of emerging technologies such as extended reality and artificial intelligence to create new audience experiences.

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

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