| re: Would NINE have beat CATS (if it went out of town the opened on bway the next season)? | |
| Posted by: mikem 09:52 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)? - NewtonUK 06:57 am EST 02/19/21 | |
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| Even though Cats is a punching bag now, Six Degrees of Separation, which premiered in 1990, has a minor plot point that an NYC socially striving couple would be enticed by the idea of being in a movie of Cats. To do so now would probably be social suicide, but I don't think it's meant to be perceived that way in the play. I wonder when Cats lost its reputation. The Producers is another example of a hot musical's reputation deteriorating quickly, but I think The Producers is now in the "it's okay" bucket rather than being mockable like Cats. I think a non-traditional musical can win Best Book, but the Cats win is absurd for a couple of reasons. One is that there is virtually no plot, and what little there is stinks. The other is that the only credited winner of Best Book is TS Eliot, who didn't really write that plot. It's very difficult to justify how TS Eliot's poems can be the sole contributor to an award-worthy book. |
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