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re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal

Posted by: MikeR 06:47 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal - GrumpyMorningBoy 05:01 pm EST 11/23/14

1994. I was on a business trip to my company's home office in Connecticut with three coworkers. We flew in on Saturday so we could have Sunday to go into NYC. We hit TKTS for the matinee. I can't remember everything that was playing, but I was trying to steer my group toward Damn Yankees or An Inspector Calls. One coworker was willing to see whatever, but the other two weren't having it. Cats. That was the only show they had any interest in seeing. At all.

So we saw Cats.

In over 25 years of NYC theater-going, it's the only Playbill I didn't keep.


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I feel you on that. After getting dragged to it a third time by a friend

Posted by: Esther 11:07 am EST 11/24/14
In reply to: re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal - MikeR 06:47 pm EST 11/23/14

from out of town in 1989, I stopped volunteering to go to the theater with visiting friends unless they agreed to see just about anything else.


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re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal

Posted by: lordofspeech 10:11 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal - MikeR 06:47 pm EST 11/23/14

I loved that there was an ensemble of dancers who were constantly in character, acting-dancing up a storm. The entire cast was terrific. And I admired the showmanship of the directing and, aesthetically, I admired the way an arc was created (primarily by focussing on Grizabella and the eventual ascent) with hardly any obvious plot structure.


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re: That is saying something. :( nm

Posted by: SuzanneR 07:58 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: Big family appeal, big foreign-tourist appeal - MikeR 06:47 pm EST 11/23/14

nm


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re: That is saying something. :( nm

Posted by: MikeR 08:14 pm EST 11/23/14
In reply to: re: That is saying something. :( nm - SuzanneR 07:58 pm EST 11/23/14

It was at least in part out of resentment from being "forced" to see it. But yeah... not my favorite show.


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