| re: Would NINE have beat CATS (if it went out of town the opened on bway the next season)? | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 06:57 am EST 02/19/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Would NINE have beat CATS (if it went out of town the opened on bway the next season)? - bway1430 02:06 am EST 02/19/21 | |
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| Thanks bway1430. 'Memory' has lost what an impact CATS made when it opened. It was already a sold out hit in London. Frank Rich saw it there and was highly complimentary. His reservation was Gillian Lynne's choreography, but he posited that with the more skillful dancers available for BRoadway, she could up her game. Which is exactly what she did (Later putting most of the more varied, difficult Broadwaychoeography into the West End version). We had never seen anything like CATS on Broadway. Frank Rich's review of the Broadway production laid on praise for the immense theatricality, and the wonderful fantasy world created in the show. "What CATS does is take us into a theatre overflowing with wondrous spectacle - and that's an enchanting place to be." CATS was a phenomenal success in London, and on Broadway. It was hugely entertaining. Frank Rich led his review by calling it 'extravagantly uneven', which it was. CATS ran 18 Years. NINE ran 22 months. Before you stomp on my head, I do believe NINE is a better musical than CATS. But CATS was an earth-shaking event on Broadway. When CATS opened on Broadway, EVITA was still running, as was JOSEPH. ALW was THE big name in musical theatre, and this was his biggest hit. It deserved the Tony for many reasons, and I think would have handily defeated NINE as well. The only inexplicable Tony in 1983 was TS Elit winning for Best Book. CATS has no book, only lyrics. How is that possible? | |
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