Cats Revival- Page 2

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 8:39pm

"And then the whore-cat Grizabella steps onto the magical tire, which ascends to heaven."

"...Thus concluding the Circle of Life".
Updated On: 4/13/10 at 08:39 PM

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 8:48pm

Give the score more of a rock sound, and pin it with that "asylum" idea that came up in the Crazy Concepts for Classic Shows thread, and I think it'd be a real hot ****in' ticket. Cats with an actual plot -- that I'd go see.

[Edna Turnblad]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 9:00pm

I was just thinking about that plot idea from the thread. Who thought of that because I want to give them a pat on the head. Or, more appropriately, a scratch behind the ears. Now, I enjoyed the Cats video, but I'm sure I would have difficulty sitting through it in a theatre. It's the kind of show that is better when you can pause it and go use the bathroom. Because otherwise, you would have missed none of the "plot".

[Madcap Maisie]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 9:02pm

Updated On: 7/8/14 at 09:02 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 9:23pm

Who doesn't?

[TechEverlasting]

Posted: 4/13/10 at 10:43pm

[chewy5000]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 2:52am

I saw it last month for the first time. It is well and truly dated,if that is even possible for a show with no plot and no specific temporal setting.

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 4:51am

I don't understand the hate for this show. I saw it twice in it's first year on Broadway and I totally fell in love with it. I remember walking to school everyday and passing by the Winter Garden just to look up at the humongous billboard above the theater's marquee.

[MusicalLover6]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 1:11pm

Cats is iconic. Mainly because of what Cameron Macintosh did for it - he got the idea for the logo, the continious playing of Memory, the tag-line adverts in London, the catchy 'memory lives forever' or something like that... I mean, in America, nobody knew much about T.S Elliot's Possum Book for Practical Cats. In London, most children knew of it.

CATS only has one good song and that's 'Memory'. The rest of it, I can just read 'Possum's Book of Practical Cats'. It has an interesting 'set' and nice dancing and acrobatics, but that's all I can ever give it.

Also, as someone pointed out, it's heavily dated. If I can recall, the whole 'leg-warmer' look was also dervived from CATS. But don't quote me on that, I just remember it being atributed to it...

[Marquise]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 1:15pm

The 1980 film XANADU starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly is often cited as starting the leg warmer craze.
Updated On: 4/14/10 at 01:15 PM

[MusicalLover6]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 1:21pm

RE: Xanadu, and I think Flashdance... but as you can see, they're all 80's movie with dancers.

People might as well don't like CATS because at a couple points (even during the cast bows, if they even had any, can't recall), the cats came out into the audience and started pawing and meowing at people. It was different but weird. And in the original Sydmonton/London version of CATS, the cats were crawling under the legs of people in the audience to 'get to the stage'. Grown people crawling around, meowing like cats, is just a bit off putting.

But hey, if people like it, they like it. Like someone said, it'll be revived, cleaned up to fit the new decade, and people will flock to it again.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/14/10 at 6:07pm

If the ending is changed & they all turn feral & start roaming the city, than I am in.