Why do you all hate Cats?- Page 5

[Danielm]

Posted: 11/23/05 at 12:39pm

I think you're being ingenuous ALWrules you don't want to know why people hate Cats, you want them to agree with you that it's the best show ever. They say, "I hate it because bla bla bla". You say "but why is bla bla bla." You are not going to come up with an argument that will make everyone say, "wow, ALWrules is right, it is the best show ever." People will hate the show whether they have a clear reason or not, and you will never understand their reasons because you don't want to.

Just be content that you love the show and that's great. There are probably more of you than there are Sondheim, William Finn, LaChuisa or Guettel fans out there. Just be happy you're in the majority--you won!

[Di2]

Posted: 11/23/05 at 1:45pm

The show is ridiculous, tired and boring..

That's why I don't like it...

[SamIAm]

Posted: 11/23/05 at 1:49pm

I don't hate it. It is sort of like a guilty pleasure. Like trying to stay on a diet of healthy food and exercise all year long and sneaking into a fast food restaurant for your favorite milkshake and fries when no one is looking.

I am not a fan of all of his work, but I did enjoy CATS when I saw it.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 11/23/05 at 5:14pm

I have a soft spot for it since it was the first Broadway show I was taken to. I firmly believe that it was at its best at the Winter Garden on Broadway, having seen the London and US touring productions also. It was hard not to marvel at Napier's set and costumes. The dancing was incredible and there are some very irresistable tunes in Webber's score (Jellicle Songs, Gus, Skimbleshanks, Memory). I think the length of its run and it's lack of plot is what drives people crazy about it. I for one did care about several of the characters (Gus comes to mind). Unfortunately, I belive it overstayed its welcome and will not be well recieved in a revival any time in the next 30 years.

[gypsy71]

Posted: 11/23/05 at 7:27pm

I have a love hate relationship with the show for different reasons. It was the first Broadway national tour I ever worked on (I was the wig and makeup supervisor), this was a big deal for me a kid from Ohio of all places. Here I was struggling in the Cleveland arts scene and now I was going out on tour with the longest running Broadway show. It was great. The reason why I hate it? I had done 402 performances and NEVER missed a show. If you heard the Jellicle Ball that many times you would want to kill yourself too!

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 11/23/05 at 7:44pm

Well, I don't like CATS because...I don't know. It just did not appeal to me at all. It pretty much bored the sh*t out of me...and the score is just not a very good one.

What I liked most was the costumes, however. They were very creative, and I thought they looked very cool.

Anyway.

[eslgr8]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 3:21am

Besides not liking the music (at all!), hating the costumes (seeing actors hidden by ugly makeup and atire), and lamenting the lack of a story... I guess that's enough reason to abhor this show, and yeat listing those reasons still doesn't explain why truly this was one of the most excruciating two hours I've ever spent in a theater seeing a musical. And people on this board know I like most of what I see. It is without question the most unbearable musical I have ever seen!

[CompanyGuy]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 3:54am

I loved Cats when I was younger. It is a kids' show. Yes, some were traumatized, but most were pleased. Then you grow up. Then it is about freakin Cats. And you are like, "Umm, why? Why did I like it?" Memory... ummm... NOT original music. I forget the original opera, but if you listen to it... you will be singing "Memory, all alone in the moonlight" to a song that was written 100 years ago. Huh? Cats has its place, I just am not interested anymore.

[ajayspak2]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 4:50am

I'm sorry Neocomposer you can and should HATE a work of art if that what it envokes into you. That is the whole purpose of art, to envoke a response, positive or negative. Art does not limit peoples visceral feelings towards it. So HATE away, by the way CATS sucked even in year one!

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 7:38am

My first boyfriend used to play the cast album all the time and loved it - but I could never figure out why - then I saw the tour in Miami and wanted to run screaming - of course, most of
ALW's scores do that to me - with the exception of Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. Cats just bored me to death and I found it pointless.

[Lily2]

Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:22pm

Because in my opinion it's wierd and trippy, and a lot of T.S. Elliot's stuff is Anti-Semetic. I have no desire to watch people in cat suits run around on stage singing music that I don't love.