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re: CATS - Why?

Posted by:	sf 06:41 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to:	CATS - Why? - MarkBearSF 04:24 pm EST 11/23/14

The London production, believe it or not, was very charming. It's a very slight show, though, and it doesn't (in my experience) work nearly as well in a traditional proscenium theatre as it did at the New London, however much they try to recreate the way that theatre was configured for the show elsewhere (the original London production was staged three-quarters in the round, in a theatre that's a little smaller than most of the West End theatres that are commonly used for musicals). The video, unfortunately, does not do the material very many favours.

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re: CATS - Why?

Posted by:	Zelgo 11:31 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to:	re: CATS - Why? - sf 06:41 pm EST 11/24/14

CATS was extraordinarily original for its time--sung through, large sets, the first of the big European extravaganzas that dominated the 80's on Bway. We can look at almost any show and wonder why it ran so long, but for its time, CATS was something very new to the Bway-going public.

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