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Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal

Posted by:	GrumpyMorningBoy 05:01 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to:	CATS - Why? - MarkBearSF 04:24 pm EST 11/23/14

When I landed in NYC in the late 90's, it was still playing, although it had long become the butt of New Yorkers' cynical jokes as the worst show on Broadway. A friend of mine overheard... in like at TKTS... a conversation that went like this: Woman: "CATS? What's it about?" Man: "It's about a bunch of singing and dancing cats. But there's one cat they all really hate. So they send her up to heaven on a tire." And that pretty much sums up the plot of CATS. LOL. The word on the street, in the late 90's, was that CATS was one of the few shows that largely survived from group bookings. School groups could always book without fears of material that was too grown up, and they could book it forever in advance, since it was always playing. And friends of mine who were in the Bway cast said that a HUGE portion of their audience was international groups and tourists who didn't speak English... ... it was the one show in town where you really didn't have to understand the words to enjoy the show just as much as everyone else. - GMB p.s. -- I'm told that's a big reason why STOMP and BLUE MAN GROUP are still playing today.

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Thread:	re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal - Alcindoro 07:50 am EST 11/24/14 (2) Hal Prince on CATS - showtunetrivia 03:42 pm EST 11/24/14 (1) re: Hal Prince on CATS - Alcindoro 04:20 pm EST 11/24/14 re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal - MikeR 06:47 pm EST 11/23/14 (4) I feel you on that. After getting dragged to it a third time by a friend - Esther 11:07 am EST 11/24/14 re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal - lordofspeech 10:11 pm EST 11/23/14 re: That is saying something. :( nm - SuzanneR 07:58 pm EST 11/23/14 (1) re: That is saying something. :( nm - MikeR 08:14 pm EST 11/23/14 I have a different theory - broadwaybacker 05:19 pm EST 11/23/14 (1) re: I have a different theory - Singapore/Fling 09:08 pm EST 11/23/14 re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal - AlanScott 05:14 pm EST 11/23/14

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