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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

System Integration

Show systems were integrated using an extensive original codebase using tools and languages including QLab, RNBO, TouchOSC, Python, C++, Javascript,  and Unreal Blueprints.

Cloud services included Google Firebase, AWS Lambda, SNS, SQS, Sagemaker, Bedrock, CloudWatch, and EC2.

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

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