Why do you all hate Cats? — Page 5

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!

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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.

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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!

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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!

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!

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.