Originally Posted By DAR Last week on vacation each of the resorts would do a different show every night, Michael Jackson one night, a best of Broadway type show, Prince and Madonna impersonators. Not the greatest but still entertaining in their own way. One of the resorts did CATS albeit an abbreviated version of the show. I have one thing to ask what the heck is that about?
Originally Posted By LPFan22 This is my all time favorite musical. I've only seen it a few times but love the music. Maybe you have to be a cat owner to get it... not sure. Here's some info though... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C ats</a>_(musical)
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 I got a VHS recording of this show from the library to see what everyone was talking about. I laughed all the way through it, thought that it was the stupidest thing I'd ever seen...and yet the soundtrack is now on my iPod and I find myself humming "Rum Tum Tugger" every so often. There's something about this show that just gets inside of your brain and stays there.
Originally Posted By irishfan I saw it in NYC back in 99, my seat was actually in the stage which was pretty cool. There are a few beautiful songs, but for the majority of the show I was saying to myself: "What the????"
Originally Posted By lesmisfan yeah i saw this in long beach,ca a few years back and at the pantages not to long ago. I thought at first i was gonna hate it but it has really awesome music!
Originally Posted By SunshineOR Haven't seen it in years, but my parents took us twice when we were kids and we loved it! I remember listening to the soundtrack, reading the book of poems, and being totally into it. Thinking about it now, I can see why it would appeal to kids, but maybe not so much to adults.
Originally Posted By kennect A weird show indeed but apparently the public bought into to it and made it a huge sucess...I took my mom to see it and she got it...Now that means something...I personally thought it was brilliant...I can't explain why but it was to me...
Originally Posted By threeundertwo My youngest daughter was addicted to this video when she was about 4. I bet I've seen it a hundred times. The music really does grow on you. The song "Memory" is really a gorgeous ballad.
Originally Posted By TheRedhead I saw the show in '95, I guess. I remember being ready to claw my eyes out during the opening number, and I turned to my friend and told him that I might kill myself if this number lasted much longer. I believe it went on for another 7 minutes or so. Felt like years. How many times can you be subjected to the same jellical-cats phrase over and over? And they call It's a Small World torture? My wife often accuses me of "over-hating" a popular musical, meaning that I will go overboard bashing a show if it's an undeserving commercial hit. And she's right. But as far as CATS is concerned, it's the worst show I have ever seen. Period. I stopped going to shows for a while after that, just because I couldn't muster the strength to sit through a musical again. It's that bad. And you know, I might give the show a little slack - Betty Buckley sounded amazing and it did introduce a lot of kids to Broadway musicals. But the moment I saw them inviting kids from the audience up on stage during intermission to pose for pictures on the old cat's lap...you know I still can't believe that was happening. Absolute garbage.
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Originally Posted By kennect Redhead, I said my mother got it, well I did also...There was just something about it that really hit with me...Just the idea of the cat's gathering that single night to learn who would go to the Heavy Side Layer...Did I get that right??? It has been a while...Still, I don't think I need to see it again anytime soon...I think you really needed to be a cat lover and owner to get any kind of grasp on the non-existant storyline...So how many cats do you have????
Originally Posted By TheRedhead Interesting point. I am firmly in the dog camp - I currently have two shtzus, and have had a dog in some way my whole life. I really don't like cats. Maybe that does have something to do with it. But then again, I don't care for people who chop up other people and put them in pies...
Originally Posted By threeundertwo I don't know if it's so much about being a cat lover as being a fan of T.S. Eliot and/or Andrew Lloyd Webber. I would rather see (and listen to) Sweeny Todd, but I like this much better than Phantom, which just really didn't appeal to me.
Originally Posted By kennect Well Redhead, I really understand that Cat's is not for everyone and doubt really that many cat lovers made it into the huge success it was...But having as many cat's as I have had over the years I can see where, for some, they really got the idea of that evening of the annual ball...I really do think the cat's party when you away...Fortunately for me most of all of the cats I have ever had happened to have personalities suited more to a dog...You could call them by name and they would come running like an obdient puppy...They all have been unique, giving me the idea that the brief stories told in Cat's made sense...You have no idea how much I miss Baby, Bigfat, Pancake, Bad, Pancake II, Mr. Kitty, Mrs. Kitty, Biscuit, Foot(who was terribly deformed and had only three toes on each foot) and Al...Al was really a charmer...Full name, Al A. Bama...He sat endless hours on the computer desk interested in every move I made...Then he spent the rest of his time in my drapery workroom sitting on the cutting table all over the customer's fabric...The customers never knew that but he was always there in the middle of everything that happened in this house...I loved everyone of them dearly and for me Cat's kinda played tribute to how eccentric and odd they can be...Today I have only two cats...One over twenty years old that I think is really going to live forever...I didn't mention him above since he still living...Orange...Another sad story...A crushed left rear leg we had fixed to the tune of what I would be embrassed to say...I do think he truly is going to be around for several more years...And then there is E-Lane...She is only about five years old...Rescued at about nine weeks old from the emergency lane of one of the interstates around here, hence the name....Sorry to have gotten off onto all of this additional info but it felt good for me...As you said you are a dog person...Now that is one thing I wouldn't want to see...A musical about dogs I don't think it could wow me but Cat's did for it time so who knows????
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 "I am firmly in the dog camp - I currently have two shtzus" Would you excuse me for a moment? I think my Non-Sequitor Alarm is going off. <a href="http://about-shtzu-puppies.1000fashiongames.com/" target="_blank">http://about-shtzu-puppies.100...mes.com/</a> I've never seen Cats. A) It's about cats. B) The cats look like clowns. I'm also not a huge fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber. (And, no, you can't use the fact that I paid to see Starlight Express -- and kind of enjoyed it -- against me. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.) But I agree that "Memory" is gorgeous.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo In related news, the cast of Sweeny Todd has announced at a Press conference that their next film will be "CATS" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yetzCaZAoiY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...zCaZAoiY</a> (look at poor Alan Rickman - he looks like he got stuck at the kids table)
Originally Posted By DAR <<I'm also not a huge fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber>> I'm really not either but I love love Jesus Christ Superstar.
