I'm doing a production of it, and believe it or not... there is actually a story. You just have to sit there, and analyze the show... which I think you should have to after you see a show. To many shows just put it right out there... however... some of the stuff in CATS is to subliminal to understand and is one of it's downfalls. But basically it's that the Jellicle Cat tribe are meeting for the jellicle ball, which is where the jellicle leader, Old Deuteronomy, picks a cat to go to the heavyside layer, which is where a cat goes to be reborn into another cat live (they're said to have 9...remember?) They're all trying to go to the heavy side layer, because if you die before you go to the heavyside layer, you die. You just do, and you can't come back. Grizabella, defied the jellicle law, which is that the family stays together, and left 6 or 7 years before this jellicle ball. She comes back for the first time in the beginning of the show, and tries to apologize for leaving, and to show them that she made a mistake by going out into the world and getting beat up. They all try to get picked, but in the end realize that they should forgive Grizabella, and choose her to go to the heavyside layer. It's about forgiveness, and love for family... kind of... some of the music is amazing... some of it is bleh... the dancing is really intense, and it was made to be about the spectacle, and the fact that there were dancing CATS on the stage... rather than trying to create a huge beautiful intriquite piece of theatre, which I think should be done first rather than designing a show so that it can be a spectacle, which is what I think that ALW does alot. Had they really tried to explain the show a bit more, it would have been better... but hey, it's the longest freaking show that ran on Broadway ever... I guess we don't have lisence to mess.
that's a really big mic...
