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re: CATS - Why?

Posted by:	bobby2 04:01 am EST 11/24/14
In reply to:	CATS - Why? - MarkBearSF 04:24 pm EST 11/23/14

You have to remember how unique it was at the time. There simply had been no spectacle like it. Granted I was a kid but I found the whole Grizabella story and her isolation very moving. I think I related to her because of childhood bullying. And Betty Buckley was simply extraordinary. I had never heard anyone sing like that. It was really stunning. The show didn't really hold up (few do look at the Annie and ACL revivals) on repeated viewings when I was older but a lot of that was because I don't think anybody ever quite sang and acted the role like Betty Lynn.

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