What happened to the Cats "revival"
What happened to the Cats "revival"
#1What happened to the Cats "revival"
Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:06pm
Wasn't there some posters hanging around the city a year or so ago talking about a new "re-inventing" of Cats? I seem to remember a few threads about it a while ago.
Has anyone heard anything?
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:07pmThey're waiting for the Helen Hayes Theater to become available.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#2re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:17pmHopefully someone shot the producers who were/are willing to back this show.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#3re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:18pmA CATS REVIVAL! That would be awesome I never got a chance to see it in NYC. But the Reinventing part seems a little weird but interesting.
#4re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:23pmPatti LuPone as Grizabella!! (note sarcasm)
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#5re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:24pmWhat happens in Concord...
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#6re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:26pmLord ALW's cat deleted the contract.
that's a really big mic...
#7re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:27pmI would love to see Patti as Grizabella but alas she wouldn't due to her hate of ALW.
#8re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:30pmThat makes two of us.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#9re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/12/08 at 1:51am
As having seen only the touring show, I wouldn't mind if they brought it back to Broadway, with a twist...I always though (I saw it on TV also), that the original had "something" I could not put my finger on, missing.
In the touring, the actors mingled with the audience, which made it that much more engaging. I don't know about the Broadway version.
#10re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/12/08 at 1:54amhttps://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=948136
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#11re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/12/08 at 2:09am
Andrew Lloyd Webber just called me, because he reads this board, and he told me to relay the reinventation.
it's only 4 cats now... but they've been gone to the Heavyside Layer for 1 year and have come back to the scrap yard for some more dancing and singing!
it's abridged as an 85 minute show (with no intermission) and new songs including "Generation Kitty Box" and "Those Good Old Cat Scratch Days" and then EYEDEENUUHH comes out as a green kitty and sings "Take Me Out"
the end.
#12re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:38am
Lord ALW's cat deleted the contract.
+1
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#13re: What happened to the Cats 'revival'
Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:45amThey should do it with the real cats from the MOSCOW CATS CIRCUS, that would be the bomb!
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