Presenting Andrew Lloyd Webber's worldwide phenomenon, CATS!
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Based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the show is set amongst a larger- than-life junkyard playground and is alive with our favourite feline characters including Rum Tum Tugger, Mr. Mistoffelees, Macavity, Jennyanydots, Old Deuteronomy, Grizabella and Skimbleshanks. The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year - the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.
Where's the talent? What makes me most sad today is to see no talent today. This Cats Rendition reminds me of an age where talent was everywhere you looked. From Andrew Lloyd Webber to Spyro Gyra, our generation had immense talent that captured the attention of the entire world. Today, most of these clowns parading as musicians can't even keep their pants up above the knees.
I saw Cats in NYC and several years later in LA. This film captures the glory of the stage show. Susie McKenna did a magnificent Jennyanydots. The 2019 film was awful. It was the ayahuasca version of Cats. Note TSE on the trunk for T.S. Elliot.
mad love for tugger's gesture of pulling up his collar- it is both relatable in a human-like sense, as well as the gesture of puffing up his fur as a cat to intimidate
This specific rendition of this song - nearly 3 decades from the first time I saw/heard it - remains the most emotionally gut-wrenching and beautiful piece to me. Every time I watch it the tears pour down, nose runs, chest clenches, and hair raises. Epic performance that really manages to pack true emotion into the voice and the expressions.
Knowing about TS Eliot being from the US and the history of the US at the turn of the 20th century, has some of the lyrics sounding really questionable but it makes sense too. According to Google he moved to England in 1914, so he was in America when they tried to ban the Chinese from immigrating into the country. The Chinese were despised at the time as well and were demonized when they shouldn't have been. So sadly that racism made it into Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. It's sad because this is one of the hidden gems in the musical. There's other poems from the book that has even worse racism than this one. I'm surprised some of those other poems actually made it into the musical at the beginning. Thank goodness it wasn't in this version but it later was used for the 2019 movie because they decided to use the original 1980s line up of the songs for some reason. (The song I'm referring to is Growl Tiger's Last Stand.)
I recently watched a video aboit this show and they stated that cats is a story being told backwards by the villain and that makes so much sense to me and it’s one of the many reasons this should have never been made into a movie
Mr. Mistoffelees Cats You ought to ask Mr Mistoffelees The Original Conjuring Cat There can be no doubt about that Please Listen to me and don't scoff All his inventions are off his own bat There's no such cat in the metropolis He holds all the patent monopolies For performing surprising illusions And creating eccentric confusions The greatest magicians Have something to learn From Mr Mistoffelees' Conjuring Turn And we all say Oh, well, I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr Mistoffelees? He is quiet, he is small, he is black From his ears to the tip of his tail He can creep through the tiniest crack He can walk on the narrowest rail He can pick any card from a pack He is equally cunning with dice He is always deceiving you into believing That he's only hunting for mice He can play any trick with a cork Or a spoon, and a bit of fish paste If you look for a knife or a fork And you think it is merely misplaced You've seen it one moment But, then, it is gone You'll find it next week Lying out on the lawn And we all say Oh, well, I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr Mistoffelees? (Presto!) Oh, well, I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr Mistoffelees? His manner is vague and aloof And you would think there was nobody shyer But his voice has been heard on the roof While he was curled up by the fire And he's sometimes been heard by the fire While he was about on the roof At least they all heard that somebody purred Which is incontestable proof And all of his singular magical powers And I've known the family to call Him in from the garden for hours When he was asleep in the hall And not long ago, this phenomenal cat Produced seven kittens Right out of a hat And we all say Oh, well, I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr Mistoffelees Radical! And not long ago this phenomenal cat Produced seven kittens Right out of a hat And we all say Oh, well, I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr Mistoffelees Oh, well, I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr Mistoffelees? Oh, well, I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr Mistoffelees? Oh, well, I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr Mistoffelees? (Magical, mystical) Oh, well, I never! Was there ever a cat so clever as Magical Mr Mistoffelees? I give you the Magical The Marvelous Mr Mistoffelees!
I swear most of y’all just WANT this to be an 0rgy. Nothing about this says 0rgy, you’re literally inserting that yourself if you insist that’s what it is. If you can’t see a a “cat” coming of age followed by a group of “cats” (who literally aren’t even doing anything other than being somewhat huddled up in a group, which they often are throughout the show, and is also normal cat behavior irl) without seeing a gatdam 0rgy, then idk how to help you, but you sure need it.
I’ll never forgive the 2019 movie for ruining one of my favorite Cats characters, classy Ms. Jennyanydots, with trashy-azz REBEL WILSON. I’m sorry but Rebel Wilson is good for one thing and one thing only (if anything) and that is cheap, cheesy, campy slapstick humor so simple & basic a 6 year old could understand it, yet it’s usually dirty and raunchy to seem…adult I guess? For those kinds of movies, she fits. She does not fit in anything else. In fact, she ruins everything else with her mere presence, because she brings that awful cheesy “adult”-but-actually-super-childish humor with her everywhere she goes, REGARDLESS of what the movie is supposed to be like, what her character is supposed to be like. She can’t actually play characters. She can either play just that ONE character, or that’s not even a character it’s just her being herself, and therefore she actually can’t play any characters. Either way, she cannot act. So giving her a character like JENNYANYDOTS, who she is NOTHING like in any way, is obviously going to be a total disaster, and it was. Jennyanydots isn’t even HERE. It’s just Rebel Wilson dressed/cgi’d to look like a cat (saying this very generously here lol) and it takes me out of the movie so badly. Fortunately (at this point) the rest of the movie is so bad anyway that it doesn’t really actually matter. Also, one of the biggest ironies to me is that Rebel Wilson is exactly the type of person Jennyanydots would want to teach/fix because as she would say about the mice, her “behaviors not good and her manner’s not nice!”. Justice for Jennyanydots!
Цървул и от злато да е пак си е цървул! Съжалявам за МОЙТЕ ЦАРЕ, КОИТО ТИ НЕ УВАЖАВАВШ, А, ТЕ СЪ БИЛИ ПРОСВЕТИТЕЛИ, ЗА ДА СЪЗДАДЪТ ЕДИН ПО- ДОБЪР СВЯТ, А ТИ СИ ЕПСЪНТ, СТРАХКИВ БОКЛУК!
