#28
Posted: 3/8/05 at 2:57pm
I'm sure it was something in its day, but by the time I saw it (I 1995, I think) it was TIRED!!! I just wanted to scream, 'Put the poor creatures DOWN, for God's sake!'
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#29
Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:06pm
i never saw cats live before, but i've recently just gotten into the movie and i really like it. i haven't watched the whole thing all the way through, so maybe i wouldn't like the show. but there are plenty of songs that i love and thoroughly enjoy!
#30
Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:11pm
"i never saw cats live before, but i've recently just gotten into the movie and i really like it."
The bad thing about the Cats video/DVD is that they didn't film the Growltiger sequence.
The bad thing about the Cats video/DVD is that they didn't film the Growltiger sequence.
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#31
Posted: 3/8/05 at 4:24pm
CATS was definitley my first broadway show. i only saw it the one time, when i was like 10 years old, so i thought it was great. it's what began to set me on a road towards a career in musical theatre, so i have to be greatful for it!
#33
Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:20pm
JakeB is right. The CATS bashing is to CATS fans what "Wicked" bashing is to "Wicked" fans. Not that I believe my li'l voice will stop either one, but still...
Having said that, CATS holds a very special place with me. It was the one show I had wanted to see since I was a kid, when "Reading Rainbow" did a segment on it. I saw it on tour when I was 14 and on Broadway the next year. I have never experienced something like seeing CATS on Broadway, in the theater where it had been playing 17 years, where the original cast performed. And the theater itself was a work of art. There are pictures of it, but to really get the magic you had to be there.
Seeing CATS made me realize that you never have to totally grow up, a concept I'd been struggling with (hell, I have a hard time with it now, at 20). Being in the theater allowed me to feel like a kid, to let the awe and, yes, the magic overwhelm me. Knowing that I don't have to totally abandon my more childlike qualities has helped me embrace growing up.
...wow. Sorry for the long post, but when I get going...
Having said that, CATS holds a very special place with me. It was the one show I had wanted to see since I was a kid, when "Reading Rainbow" did a segment on it. I saw it on tour when I was 14 and on Broadway the next year. I have never experienced something like seeing CATS on Broadway, in the theater where it had been playing 17 years, where the original cast performed. And the theater itself was a work of art. There are pictures of it, but to really get the magic you had to be there.
Seeing CATS made me realize that you never have to totally grow up, a concept I'd been struggling with (hell, I have a hard time with it now, at 20). Being in the theater allowed me to feel like a kid, to let the awe and, yes, the magic overwhelm me. Knowing that I don't have to totally abandon my more childlike qualities has helped me embrace growing up.
...wow. Sorry for the long post, but when I get going...
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#35
Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:43pm
You better not had been referring to me, Mr. Roxy.
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#36
Posted: 3/8/05 at 6:54pm
I love Cats...
Saw it the week before it closed, front row...amazing!
Saw it the week before it closed, front row...amazing!
#37
Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:04pm
Who cares if CATS doesn't have a plot (Which it does by the way......a small one.....but still a plot). It is a fun musical with great dancing and some fun songs. Who cares?
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#38
Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:20pm
Indeed, spider.
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#39
Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:22pm
To Rose Mc Shane
I was referring to anyone who saw CATS & definitely not you personally
I was referring to anyone who saw CATS & definitely not you personally
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#40
Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:33pm
Okay. Sorry, then.
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#41
Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:36pm
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He left @ 2 everyday & very few knew it. He left his monitor on,had a phony sports coat draped around his chair , a spare pair of glasses on his desk. All so he could go play the ponies
Life is great
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#42
Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:41pm
um....that was one trip out post there. Gave me a buzz just reading it.
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#43
Posted: 3/8/05 at 7:48pm
I've never even made it all the way through the video.....
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#44
Posted: 3/8/05 at 8:06pm
Rose_MacShane...
Nicely put. I feel similarly.
Nicely put. I feel similarly.
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#45
Posted: 3/8/05 at 8:42pm
I wish I had seen it as a kid. Because I'm sure I'd have loved it. Instead I saw it with my mother as a hormonal teenager (after we had had a big fight), we were in the nosebleed section and couldn't see very well, and the two people behind us were commenting on all the pu$$y on stage.
#46
Posted: 3/9/05 at 12:23am
I smoked a blunt when I watched the video. Not even that could enhance the entertainment. It still sucked.
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#48
Posted: 3/10/05 at 12:40am
You have to admit that the video version is at least better than "A chrous Line" video that had Michael Douglas, I wanted to claw my eyes out. Instead I just turned the TV off
#49
Posted: 3/10/05 at 12:55am
CATS is one of those shows that's virtually impossible to film well. It would have been much better if they had filmed a performance of it.
Take the overture: On the video, they run the credits with the overture and have all these superimposed cats' eyes all over the place, which I thought was silly and confusing. When you see it live, you can see little lights go on all around you, and you really get the impression that the theater is filling up with alley cats on the prowl. Then, the performers come out with light-up glasses and walk around, literally walking right in front of you. It's so cool.
Take the overture: On the video, they run the credits with the overture and have all these superimposed cats' eyes all over the place, which I thought was silly and confusing. When you see it live, you can see little lights go on all around you, and you really get the impression that the theater is filling up with alley cats on the prowl. Then, the performers come out with light-up glasses and walk around, literally walking right in front of you. It's so cool.
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#50
Posted: 3/10/05 at 9:32am
I love all the comments regarding the lack of plot. What exactly were they expecting? It was based on poems that had no plot. There was nothing that claimed it had a plot. It is not the first or last musical that doesn't have a plot. It is exactly what it was meant to be. The title says it all. Do these people feel somehow deceived thinking they were walking into a dramatic book show or old-fashioned musical comedy?
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