CATS broadway revival!!!- Page 5

[blaxx]

Posted: 6/29/14 at 10:44pm

The original set change (and truly the only set change from the whole installation aside from some moving pieces) had the back of the moon backdrop serving as the floor of the ship. When the song started the backdrop began opening from top to bottom to reveal the ship as in a pop-up book. It was crazy.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 6/29/14 at 10:49pm

That's F*CKing wild and I need to see footage of it. Come on Bootleg sleuths find me SOMETHING!

[Starship]

Posted: 6/29/14 at 11:15pm

Just an interesting idea for if the show ever came to Broadway...

I was trying to think of some stunt casting that could be done for the show. I think the most obvious choices would be Grizabella and Old Deuteronomy. But then I started thinking...how possible do you think it would be to bring in So You Think You Can Dance winners/contestants for some of the ensemble roles? I know some of them can even sing, but even so, there are some ensemble dancing roles I think could work.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

If it ever did come back to Broadway, I wonder if a big name like Aretha Franklin or Jennifer Holliday would join as Grizabella. That'd make for an interesting "Memory". Updated On: 6/29/14 at 11:15 PM

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 6/29/14 at 11:54pm

I would prefer to never see Jennifer Holliday sing... ever again. Not only has she lost any control in that voice she is TERRIFYING to look at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQD4nZjWZmw

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 5:17pm

What, he was serious?!

The Associated Press reports that Lloyd Webber will re-conceive the character of Rum Tum Tugger as a rapping street cat. "I've come to the conclusion that ... maybe Eliot was the inventor of rap," he said, referencing poet T.S. Eliot.
Source

[morosco]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 5:26pm

An Old White Man Invented Rap, Claims an Old White Man

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 5:47pm

I really hope that is a joke. ^

Updated On: 7/7/14 at 05:47 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 8:04pm

What an idiot. I think I'm just going to ignore this revival completely.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 8:30pm

Someone really needs to put cats out of its misery. I would like to see Miss Saigon transfer over to broadway though.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 9:13pm

Has the lord lost his mind?!! Rum Tum Tugger's 80s-glam-rock-sex-god persona is one my favorite things about the show...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 10:24pm

^Mine too. He's clearly become a bit senile in his old age and I wish he would stick to casting actors on campy reality competition programs and leave his past shows alone.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 10:30pm

Agreed!! He should be creating new iconic shows instead of "fixing" his old ones...

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/8/14 at 9:50am

Here is a scary thought

Cats with David Hasselhoff.

[NeverSoShy]

Posted: 7/8/14 at 10:05am

A friend's trying to get me to see the show with her (she's a costume design student, which I think is the main reason that she wants to see it), and I was already reluctant, but this whole rapping thing just made me die inside a little.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/8/14 at 10:07am

How about Cats. The new Tupac musical interpreted by Sir Andrew.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 7/8/14 at 2:01pm

Rapping... especially by old white guys in a musical about cats...that just shouldn't ever happen.

[GlitterandBeGay2]

Posted: 7/8/14 at 2:49pm

I know there's a rap in "Starlight Express." Trying to imagine that style of music filtered again through Lord Andrew and paired with the Rum Tum Tugger's lyrics is something very unpleasant to me.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 7/8/14 at 4:17pm

Didn't much care for it the first time around so I'll pass.

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 7/8/14 at 4:51pm

I would pay good money to see CATS with David Hasselhoff as Grizabella. ^