If CATS were still running...

#1

If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:40pm

...who would be Grizabella now?
Lauren Kennedy?
Carolee Carmello?
Marin Mazzie?
Judy Kuhn?
Lillias again?

#2

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:43pm

who cares?

#3

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:47pm

If Miss Saigon were still running, Ashlee Simpson might be Kim.

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#4

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:49pm

Lillias...probably not.

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#5

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:52pm

I care, wickedfreak. I think that CATS is one of the most important contributions to the musical theatre ever made by a closeted British drunk and if I did not care very deeply, I would not have started this thread. And furthermore, your name is "wickedfreak." That is all I have to say.

#6

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:56pm

ouch.

#7

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:57pm

Point to Goldfarb.

#8

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 12:59pm

I always wanted Andrea McArdle to play Grizabella and wondered if she was ever in the running.

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#9

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 1:02pm

I would love to see Donna Murphy tackle the role eventhough she is too good for it.
How was Lillias White?

#10

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 1:19pm

...MAMMA MIA would be stinking up some other theatre.

#11

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 1:38pm

...the audience would still be 85 percent japanese tourists.

#12

re: If CATS was still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 1:45pm

if CATS 'was' still running

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#13

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 1:46pm

Why not? Les Miz, Company, Chorus Line, Annie, and Grease are being resurrected. It's like the 80s & 90s all over again.

Sorry forgot Side Show.

Updated On: 9/15/06 at 01:46 PM

#14

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 2:13pm

If CATS was still running...
REAL dancers who CAN sing would have a job!!

Updated On: 9/15/06 at 02:13 PM

#15

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 2:27pm

"How was Lillias White? "

Dreadful. Truly.

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#16

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 3:16pm

Hopefully Chrissie Hammond. She was the last one to play the role in the West End and though her voice wasn't the kind you usually hear belt out "Memory" - her voice is a little bit like Bonnie Tyler's, or Rod Stewart's, broken & husky - she totally nailed the song! Her performance of The Song is still one of the best I've ever heard.

Or Ruthie Henshall.

#17

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 3:33pm

It's "were" like the original poster stated because it's a conditionary clause.

"If" must be followed by "were" because "was" implies it occured while "were" is a part of the conditionary clause.

I wouldn't have interrupted the thread if two other posters turned it into grammar time.

/end grammar time

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#18

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 3:55pm

what about someone like Julia Murney, now that she's done wicked.

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#19

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 4:04pm

I care too I think Victoria Clark would be a great Grizzabella.

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#20

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 4:17pm

I wonder about Andrea McArdle as well. She would have made a great Grizabella, and Julia Murney would be amazing. I wonder what Judy Kaye would be like....

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#21

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 4:19pm

Julia Murney? I would prefer NOT to hear "Memory" jack-hammered through.

My vote goes to Rachel York.

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#22

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 4:25pm

My aunt has a cat, and he's running as much as ever...

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like racehorses. We contemplate at last
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#23

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 4:32pm

tag--you are right. my bad. I guess 'if (singular noun) was' has become a bad habit.

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#24

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 4:37pm

Who cares. Cats is the worst peace of **** ever its in the running with phantom of the opera for worst broadway show ever.

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#25

re: If CATS were still running...

Posted: 9/15/06 at 4:57pm

I believe it's "was." Cats is a show, there a show WAS running. hmmm

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