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CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#175
Posted: 5/28/26 at 4:48pm
Coffeebreaking: to incessantly post negative comments about a Broadway show, and/or its financial outlook
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#176
Posted: 5/28/26 at 5:51pm
inception said: "Coffeebreaking: to incessantly post negative comments about a Broadway show, and/or its financial outlook
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Eh, they’re probably just people who won’t let joy into their lives. I always take the Redditors at face value because it’s a lot of teenagers who don’t seem to have anything more than a marble rolling between their ears when it comes to the theatrical zeitgeist
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#177
Posted: 5/28/26 at 5:58pm
inception said: "Coffeebreaking: to incessantly post negative comments about a Broadway show, and/or its financial outlook
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Speaking as one of the 'shamed', this term would've made that Beaches closing thread a hell of a lot more fun --- I wasn't being insensitive, i was only coffeebreaking.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/23
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#178
Posted: 5/28/26 at 6:13pm
quizking101 said: "inception said: "Coffeebreaking: to incessantly post negative comments about a Broadway show, and/or its financial outlook
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Eh, they’re probably just people who won’t let joy into their lives. I always take the Redditors at face value because it’s a lot of teenagers who don’t seem to have anything more than a marble rolling between their ears when it comes to the theatrical zeitgeist"
Which is funny, because I don't take this board's opinion as anything more than bored and tired queens bitching at home on their keyboards! Funny how that works on both sides...
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#179
Posted: 5/28/26 at 11:22pm
Tonight's guest judges were Patina Miller and Adrienne Warren!
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#180
Posted: 5/28/26 at 11:27pm
If you squint a little, that’s RuPaul and her sister.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#181
Posted: 5/28/26 at 11:33pm
Tonight was the NYC premiere of Stop That Train; Ru was never going to be available tonight.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#182
Posted: 5/29/26 at 12:05am
bud2 said: "Tonight's guest judges were Patina Miller and Adrienne Warren!"
Tonight's show was great. And I think Bebe Nicole Simpson threw in a little Pippin reference while she was going offstage later in the show.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#183
Posted: 5/29/26 at 12:30am
Ok but seriously though, when the hell are we getting a cast recording for this????
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#184
Posted: 5/29/26 at 1:02am
Im getting anxious about that... we need to get a move on.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#185
Posted: 5/29/26 at 10:27am
Bought yesterday for my November trip, but middle of the night woke up kind of anxious wondering if I should be seeing this twice that week? But, I'd like to know if Dreamgirls is actually coming and if LCT will extend Ragtime or have something new for fall. I'm thinking if Ragtime pulls off the Tony they might extend again. & as much as I am excited to finally see Jellicle Ball, it is still ALW's Cats with the original orchestrations which IMO are pretty dated. It sounds the same Fairlight programming as every early 80's pop song. Seeing that clip of the View reminded me of that.
Also, what is special about Sunday November 22? Some shows, like Lost Boys, are dark that Sunday.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#186
Posted: 5/29/26 at 10:35am
TheatreFan4 said: "Im getting anxious about that... we need to get a move on."
I KNOW RIGHT!!!! Imma need them to get to work on that cast recording ASAP!!! ideally if it can be a live cast recording that was done similar to the Sunset Blvd album. so that they kept the audience noise to an almost minimum. The way it worked was the cast wore DPA 4066 omnidirectional headset microphones, the orchestra and was recorded on a range of DPA instrument microphones whilst 9 microphones were added around the auditorium to achieve the spacial effect of the theatre (ideally they would have to include more microphones for effect). The album was then mixed in an immersive Dolby Atmos 7.1.2 surround format to make it feel like you were actually in the room.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#187
Posted: 5/29/26 at 10:59am
inception said: "& as much as I am excited to finally see Jellicle Ball, it is still ALW's Cats with the original orchestrations which IMO are pretty dated. It sounds the same Fairlight programming as every early 80's pop song. Seeing that clip of the View reminded me of that."
I'll be honest, I hated The View presentation. It was basically just a rehash of the GMA performance at a lower caliber and I think ending with Munkustrap in his 'Bizarre' category outfit landed like a thud without the punchline. The look is stupid and Old D giving him a Chop is the point.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#188
Posted: 5/29/26 at 11:17am
Ragtime will not be extending to November.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#189
Posted: 5/29/26 at 11:20am
Given that we all seem to agree that the current orchestrations are very similar to the originals (with a few extra touches catered to this production), does anyone know why David Cullen is not credited (and nominated)? The original orchestrations were credited to him and ALW (as they were for many subsequent shows); given how little has changed, it seems all but certain that a substantial amount of his work remains. It just seems puzzling to me.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#190
Posted: 5/29/26 at 11:39am
TheatreFan4 said: "I'll be honest, I hated The View presentation. It was basically just a rehash of the GMA performance at a lower caliber and I think ending with Munkustrap in his 'Bizarre' category outfit landed like a thud without the punchline. The look is stupidand Old D giving him a Chop is the point."
Seriously both The View and GMA performances do not do this production justice whatsoever…here’s hoping that their Tony performance is 1000% better, and imma keep saying it we better get a cast recording announcement within the next few weeks or at least the days leading up to the tony ceremony
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#191
Posted: 5/29/26 at 1:23pm
malcs98 said: "Seriously both The View and GMA performances do not do this productionjustice whatsoever…here’s hoping that their Tony performance is 1000% better,and imma keep saying it we better get a cast recording announcement within the next few weeks or at least the days leading up to the tony ceremony"
I enjoyed the GMA performance, but not The View. I'd like to see more medley on The Tonys.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#192
Posted: 5/29/26 at 2:14pm
Here I am thinking The View was just fine.
I'm not sure why the expectations are so high on these appearances. CATS is primarily a dance show, so I'm sure it costs money to really rework and create dance medleys for a daytime appearance. I'm hopeful they can pull something fun together for the Tonys, but even that is like what, 4 minutes?
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#193
Posted: 5/29/26 at 3:30pm
The Tonys Performance is expected to be bigger in scope and cover more aspects of the production where possible since they have more area to spread out.
The downside to the live performances are that the show is crunched into a playing space that isn’t reflective of the immersive nature of the production. I was at the GMA taping and also I’ve been to the new View studio and I feel like the newer studios, while have good tech upgrades and have a bit more versatility, are also cramped with extra cameras and equipment that makes it run.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#194
Posted: 5/29/26 at 8:42pm
Our group of 3 white eldergays finally caught Jellicle Ball last Sunday at 7pm from 6th row, orchestra left side. I myself loved the concept, loved the queerness, loved the chance for real black and brown representation in a show with roots that were originally lily-white. I loved the party atmosphere between performers and audience but there's a BUT there-- our Sunday night audience was probably 99% white, being entertained by a largely black and brown cast-- the sense of racial minstrelsy (duckwalk for the white folks) was really hard to shake.
I thought the staging started out magnificently, but number after number started to become a repetitious slog. Introduce a performer, start their song, vogue on down the runway, give the performer her foregone trophy, NEXT! And did anyone else find it bizarre to watch a musical where every other lyric needed to be ignored for the show to make any sense? The cast and the band made great MUSIC together, no question, but the words only connected in the most abstract of ways. Junior LaBeija's "Gus the Theater Cat" suffered perhaps the most with verse after verse of lyrics that in no way connected to the personal history that that performer has lived.
The show soared thanks to the interactions between performers-- Sillabub's scenes with Grizabella in Act I made me weep with emotion. By Act II, I needed something more revelatory and unfortunately the remaining musical numbers left to sing weren't gonna get me there. Sorry to say, I grew bored and was ready to head for the exit long before the curtain call had wrapped up. Glad to have seen what the fuss was about, but in the battle between Ballroom Culture and TS Elliott's verse, sorry to say they both came out the losers.
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#195
Posted: 5/29/26 at 9:25pm
They brought ALW into the DJ booth tonight!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY8X0ysM4vU/?igsh=MWtyODVueW9jeGlnNg==
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#196
Posted: 5/30/26 at 12:26am
everythingtaboo said: "bud2 said: "Tonight's guest judges were Patina Miller and Adrienne Warren!"
Tonight's show was great. And I think Bebe Nicole Simpson threw in a little Pippin reference while she was going offstage later in the show."
Sure did! Magic to doooo
CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews#197
Posted: 5/30/26 at 12:43am
EDSOSLO858 said: "They brought ALW into the DJ booth tonight!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY8X0ysM4vU/?igsh=MWtyODVueW9jeGlnNg=="
I was there. It was a nice cameo, and he “did a DJ set” outside the theatre after the show.
Term used loosely because, as far as his DJ skills go, he looks like a grandfather trying to figure out how to use a desktop for the first time. Still a ton of fun though hearing his songs remixed. The “Abracadabra (Gaga)/POTO” Remix was cool.
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