Did Cats get a plaque ?
Did Cats get a plaque ?
#1Did Cats get a plaque ?
Posted: 1/24/08 at 8:48pm
I mean really, did Cats get a plaque in the lobby of the Winter Garden?
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 8:52pmWiCkEd
#3re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 9:10pmIt may have. I haven't been to the Winter Garden in years so it's not fresh in my mind.
#4re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 9:51pmI don't remember seeing one, but I wasn't looking...
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#5re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 9:53pmI read it as 'plague' and thought, "Well, did it kill ALL 9 lives?"
#7re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 9:57pm
I can't go inside the Winter Garden until it's current tenant leaves... 
--Aristotle
#8re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 10:13pmSorry Captain, but who is in the Winter Garden now and why can you not step foot inside?
#9re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 10:15pm
I will look for it this weekend when I see MAMMA MIA!
J*
#10re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 10:18pmAll kidding about the show itself, it should get a plaque. I mean, there's a Les Mis manhole in front of the Imperial, and Les Mis was never Broadway's longest running musical while Cats, (like it or not), was.
#11re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 10:20pm
I'm so loving you, LePetiteFromage!
Not only are their teeth bad, but every litter box should be changed for each production...
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#12re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 11:14pm
"Sorry Captain, but who is in the Winter Garden now and why can you not step foot inside?"
MAMMA MIA! is in there now and I can not step foot inside because I refuse to see bad "art."
--Aristotle
#13re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/24/08 at 11:44pmI see.
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#14re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/25/08 at 12:48am
I thought Les Miserables became the longest running musical for a bit. I thought it got beaten out by cats and cats by Phantom.
The logic behind this is that before any of the british mega musicals came into town A Chorus Line was the longest running show on Broadway. And that the cast was going to sing "one" as a passing the torch type thing.
CapnHook,
Mamma Mia is not trying to pass off as art. It is fluff and it is trying to come off as nothing shorter then fluff.
MaronaDavies
Featured Actor Joined: 3/17/06
#15re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/25/08 at 12:55am
Cats was 1982-2000, and Les Mis was 1987-2003. Cats was always ahead by five years, and overtook ACL's record in 1997, right when Les Mis was having its 10th anniversary. Les Mis did overtake ACL's record in 2001-ish, and they did celebrate that, but they never caught up with Cats.
What I understood about the ACL plaque at the Shubert is that it was funded by fans of the show--the same folks who compiled the The Longest Line book, IIRC. The Les Mis sidewalk medallion was paid for by the producers in honor of the 10th anniversary.
I guess for Cats, nobody's wanted to front the money for a plaque at the Winter Garden. It's a shame it doesn't have one, though.
Updated On: 1/25/08 at 12:55 AM
#16re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/25/08 at 12:58amWinston, that's obvious. It's theme park entertainment.
--Aristotle
#17re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/25/08 at 1:33amI read it as the same thing, Diva! "Cats" is a plague on the Broadway musical though, so not entirely inaccurate.
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#18re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/25/08 at 2:57am
"MAMMA MIA! is in there now and I can not step foot inside because I refuse to see bad 'art.'"
So you've never seen it? Then how do you form the opinion that it's bad?
P.S. Cannot is one word.
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LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#20re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/25/08 at 3:14am
The same way i know that Patti Lupone is the wrong choice for Mama Rose!
But back to Cats and there Plaque, have you brushed many a **** LePetite?
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#22re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/25/08 at 3:41am
:)
The reason for the thread was people where talking about Rent getting a Plaque and i was wondering if Cats got one when it closed.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#24re: Did Cats get a plaque
Posted: 1/25/08 at 10:43amI was fortunate enough to be in the audience for the record breaking performance of CATS. I wanna say that yes, there was something presented for the theatre but I may be wrong. It truly was an electrifying evening!
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