Douglas Carter Beane - Xanadu

New York Times: "Douglas Carter Beane is having a Broadway moment. His play “The Little Dog Laughed,” a Faustian tale about a closeted actor navigating the demands of Hollywood hustlers, was nominated for a Tony Award for best play. (It lost to “The Coast of Utopia.”) Julie White, the show’s caustically funny leading lady, won the Tony for her performance as the actor’s conniving agent. Mr. Beane, whose other plays included “As Bees in Honey Drown,” has also written the book for the new stage adaptation of the 1980 movie musical “Xanadu,” which starred Olivia Newton-John as a beautiful, breathy muse named Kira (Kerry Butler plays her on Broadway) who comes to earth to help an artist open his dream roller disco and had songs by the Electric Light Orchestra. "