Now They Were There

So I went ahead and set my Tivo for The View yesterday morning and fired it up when I got home. Sure enough, this time the pre-show coming attractions clearly stated "The cast of Xanadu performs." I watched about 2 minutes of the opening chatter and then fast forwarded through the rest of it. Definitely boring, and the second new black woman (the one who isn't famous) added nothing. Then the first interview was David Hyde Pierce, so I watched that and it was definitely worth seeing. He's such a class act and he said that Curtains is hitting its 200th performance this week, which is pretty good for a Kander & Ebb first run. Then I fast forwarded through some exercise tips and finally got to the good stuff. Now apparently, whoever created the comming attractions clip thinks that Xanadu is a 2-person show since the only performers were Cheyenne and Kerry and the rest of the cast was nowhere to be found, and then the tech person didn't turn on Kerry's mic until her third line, but once that got straightened out, it was a kick-ass performance. They did "Suddenly" and it was just as good as seeing it the first time, plus we got closeups of Cheyenne's biceps. The audience definitely seemed to enjoy it, although the special effect of Cheyenne coming out of the phone booth with skates on was a little cheesier, instead of him changing while inside the booth, the camera cut to a different angle so we only saw them from the waist up, and then when it cut back to a full screen shot, he had the skates on. Still, it was the next best thing to being there. Unfortunately, they only had time for the performance and didn't do an interview or anything, and the show ended as soon as the song was done. Hopefully come Tony time they'll have everyone back for more.