"In fact. If it can be enjoyed at all, it is as a dance piece, punctuated with a few nice but disconnected songs."
"Which is ironic, because I've always thought of Cats as a big song cycle that got grossly overproduced/overstaged. ;-)"
I don't think those two views oppose each other. Maybe CATS would have been better as a song cycle, without all that dance. But once it was planned to be put on stage as a full show, it was decided -- probably correctly -- that lots of dancing was needed to fill in and give the audience something to look at, aside from the makeup, the costumes, and the set. |
