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I like sitting close too. A couple of things you should be aware of.

The stage is pretty high but with some straining you should be able to see everything except a moment where someone is laying prone on the stage for a bit. 

The larger issue is that a good deal is staged around the auditorium so you'll miss that or you'll be turning your head constantly. You won't miss anything essential but it might be annoying. 

There are a lot of projections and

I thought this was pretty terrible. I'm honestly not sure what they were going for? The material isn't great but that isn't the problem here. There is little spectacle, but this is not an actor-driven staging focused on a clarity of storytelling. For a retelling of such rich and lengthy material, a source they needed to be cut to the bone, you need to give the audience something to hold on to. Give me flying puppets, giant set pieces, epic fights... or give me five peopl

"Every single major production of Cats has changed scenes, songs, arrangements, characters who sing them, some songs cut entirely, others truncated."

Is this true? I feel like the only text changes I've noticed in the many different productions over the years have involved Growltiger's Last Stand (due to budget and vocal abilities) and Pekes and the Pollicles. I don't think I've really seen much deviation beyond that? 

That said... I'd imagine

"And they can still impose a different story without changing a word of the text because so much of the story is in the movement and direction of the piece rather than the lyrics themselves."

While that's true, there are quite a few lyrics that don't make any sense in this context. It's not just that they're cats it's that all the references and sensibilities are exceedingly British and of a certain time. It seems like a really neat idea but I think y

Kad said: "I can think of many words to describe the movie, and “campy, big, and broad” are three of them. It opens with a Broadway musicaladaptation of Sweet Bird of Youth that features a disco dance break. Goldie Hawn wears a fat suit and eats frosting from a can while losing her mind. Streep’s tongue-waggling delivery of the word “flaccid.” Any of the iconic lines. It is an extremelyover the topmovie. The only reality it’s grounded in i

I'm not a big fan of the movie. I've seen it maybe twice in 20 years and liked it fine but... don't know it well enough to know famous lines. So that's where I'm coming from. 

I thought this was mostly great. The performances and timing were REALLY spectacular for a second preview. The book is really, really, really funny. I think it could better integrate moments of pathos but it definitely isn't necessary if that's not what they're going for. Ther