CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Reviews — Page 8

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

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...

If you squint a little, that’s RuPaul and her sister.

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.

Im getting anxious about that... we need to get a move on.

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.

Ragtime will not be extending to November.

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

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?

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.

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

quizking101 said: "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."

I assumed he just pushes Play and grooves to the prerecorded track.