What's with the hatred of Cats? — Page 4

I'm not disagreeing with you. I didn't work on 'Cats' and obviously saw events from a London perspective and of course the way Cameron, especially, represented it in the UK was that America was desperate for the show to transfer. That naturally was intended to add status to him and cachet to the product at home as well as abroad.

In retrospect we know how ALW and Cam Mac revolutionized the selling of a theatre "brand"-

(I often think of ALW in the 80's as the opposite of Franklin Shepherd:"he does the music thing very well, but other people do it better. And he does the money thing very well, and nobody does it better"

- so to some extent ALW has been his own worst enemy, pushing every show as if it is the greatest, most innovative musical ever conceived, so that he ends up discrediting himself and evoking strong "hate" of his shows and what they are perceived to stand for.

Like 'Starlight Express', 'Cats' is best thought of as a kids/ family show, plain and simple.