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News Xanadu to Offer Special Actors Fund Performance Xanadu, the new musical at the Helen Hayes Theatre, will offer a special performance in November to benefit the Actors Fund of America.

The Nov. 4 7 PM performance of Xanadu will benefit the non-profit organization. Tickets are available by calling (212) 221-7300, ext. 133. For more information visit www.actorsfund.org. The Actors Fund, which was founded in 1882, is a non-profit organization that provides for the social welfare of all entertainment professionals. Some of the many programs The Actors Fund provides include a nursing home and assisted living care facility; senior and disabled programs; mental health services; chemical dependency services; entertainment industry assistance programs; the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative; the AIDS Initiative; and supportive housing on both coasts.

Xanadu features a book by Little Dog Laughed playwright Douglas Carter Beane — a 2007 Tony Award nominee — and utilizes songs from John Farrar and Jeff Lynne's film soundtrack. The musical, according to press notes, "tells the story of one of the nine muses of ancient Greece who comes to earth to inspire the greatest of artistic achievements – a roller disco. Along the way she falls in love, bumps into an old acquaintance and for the first time, feels the desire to create herself."

The Helen Hayes Theatre is located in Manhattan at 240 West 44th Street.

 
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