Cats the Musical | CumTown 

I'm gonna tell my kids that's the plot of The Wall

*sniff* *sniff*

And its a "garden apartment" in Brooklyn. But it's really a windowless half bath carved out by an "uncle" in the foundation

Me

Nicks also "never really watched star trek"

​@@nietzchepreacher9477 yeah he has no information about star trek what so ever

It's a famous play or some shit, of course Nick and Adam know about it

nick the typa guy who would say "not so into musicals, nothing wrong with them, just not my thing" but then go watch cats

@@nietzchepreacher9477 love how he says its for autistic people who dont know what emotions are or something yet he remembers small details about star trek and recites them flawlessly

Hi is Lloyd Weber secretly gay or secretly a cool guy?? Like how tf do you earnestly name a character that.

@@WetkneesBustopher Jones is just amazing as a name

@@Wetknees The play’s lyrics were largely taken from a book of poetry by T.S. Elliot. Elliot created the character’s name.

Bustopher A. Nutt

@@wormwoodcocktailTranSexual Elliot

like Planet of the apes the musical

I wasn't searching for this clip but I was thinking about this bit the other day. This man's tapping into the cum collective mind

Stav’s extremely loud mushroom laughter in a dark theatre full of cat people would be hilarious lmaoo

Mr. Shapiro, would you like to see a magic trick? Let me show you my... lightning wand.

Cowboy magic

Dude, Hamilton is way worse.

Hamilton is way worse but cats is 100% quintessential theater kids at peak strength

@@wormwoodcocktailcan you explain more? I’m curious what you mean. Cats is real tough to listen to

@@quinnj.9617 Exactly. I would much rather see a bunch of triple threat theatre kids doing ballet moves and reciting T.S. Elliot that listen to black Americans rap about “””””””history”””””””.

@@dobtoronto Well, I like musicals, so my opinions may not apply to you. As for why I like Cats better than Hamilton… because I like *musicals* that are *musicals.* Hamilton is just a bunch of subpar rapping. The few genuine “musical” songs in the show (ex. Burn) are perfectly fine, even good, but before you get there you have to listen to Lin Manuel Miranda LARP as a rapping slave owner. I’m not opposed to depicting bad people on screen or stage, but it feels a bit silly because this is being presented in conjunction with Manuel Miranda’s view of history. Like, he wants to make Hamilton a sort of populist hero, and he wasn’t. He considered the unwashed masses to be the “great beast”. Tonally, it feels all over the place. You get these attempts at “jokes” (ex. “WHAT IF THEY TAXED WHISKEY INSTEAD OF TEA LOL”), underdeveloped romantic relationships, historical revisionism while also claiming to be historical…. Honestly, it’s been years since I tried giving Hamilton a shot. I haven’t watched the show IRL or online. I attempted to listen to the entire soundtrack because a girl I liked loved the show and I wanted her to like me. I got, like, halfway into the first act before I tapped out. Pussy couldn’t motivate me to move past “HOW DOES A BASTARD, ORPHAN, SON OF A WHORE AND A SCOTSMAN”. The only songs I’ve ever wanted to repeat from that show were, like, King George’s songs about John Adams being gay. Because they were funny. With Cats, I fully get why Nick and others feel that sort of “cringe” feeling. It’s one of those shows where you either go hard or it doesn’t work. You can’t half-ass it, or it turns into an absolute farce. It’s definitely cheesy, silly, and weird. I also think the fact that the original poems were written in England, that Weber is British, etc…. All of this makes it “weird” for Americans. Like, the Gumbie Cat has a “Rule Britannia” instrumental motif. A lot of this stuff is beyond most Americans and their cultural framework. *But,* to give Cats credit where credit is due, it *can* be beautiful. It’s script isn’t by Lin Manuel, but *T.S. Elliot.* That’s actually why I watched it - because I like Elliot a lot. The songs “Old Deuteronomy” or “Gus the Theatre Cat” are emotionally affecting, especially if you’ve ever loved a cat or someone with dementia. I said that the only good Hamilton song was “Burn”, and that was partially because it’s a breakup song about being cheated on and humiliated by your partner. So, like, something that has some sort of emotional resonance. Even when Cats isn’t trying to be serious, it’s funny. Check out it the 90s movie version Nick alludes to. The makeup is absolutely insane. The dance moves these people pull off are bonkers. The chicks who play Victoria and Cassandra cats do insane ballet moves and gymnastics. Mungojerry and Rumpleteazer is a cute song about mischievous cats and the performers have to *do double cartwheels with one another while keeping their voices steady.* That requires genuine talent. High school kids could perform a serviceable adaptation of Hamilton so long as they get the funny powdered wigs. There is basically no way you could stage Cats with teenagers because *the choreography is just too difficult.* If you look at the behind the scenes documentary, you see that, like, all the actors are cut. Like, ottermode. Basically, Hamilton is written by the guy who did the music for a Disney movie. Cats is by one of the most famous (albeit “normie”) Broadway composers and one of history’s greatest poets. Hamilton has a bunch of black people in powdered wigs pretending to be slaveowners, Cats has people doing gymnastics and dancing in ways that ordinary people just *can’t.* It’s like Cirque du Soleil, in a way. There are better musicals. I’m a huge fan of Sondheim. Into the Woods, Assassins, Company, etc. are all masterpieces. Assassins is probably the one fans of Cumtown would like the most - it’s a surrealist story about John Wilkes Booth and other presidential assassins baiting Lee Harvey Oswald into offing Kennedy. It’s hilarious - Booth just screams the N word full volume in the first five minutes of the show. It’s also emotionally affecting. I’d be lying if I said that Wilkes Booth’s “you want somebody to love you” speech didn’t provoke me when I first heard it. The only other musicals I could see Cumfans liking would be Book of Mormon (by the creators of South Park) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. *TLDR:* I’m gay and I like to get fucked in the ass ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tOcYdHwc1Zo.htmlsi=3AlpzQNUHTJp7rs3

it's about a competition to see who gets to die, very upsetting

Sadly it’s much gayer than that

@@colby3991 alright cats knocking off jeweled buttplugs and copies of Paris Design Monthly off a counter

That was Andrew Lloyd Webber’s first draft but then his dad said “not gay enough!!”

Ahh nice, like what actual cats do! Any hot takes on chicken run?

Mm sounds pretty gay I’m there

That doesn’t sound like a real thing. I’m in.

@@ab-gailI can vouch for that being real. I never saw it live, but I remember the tv ads back in the 80s. A neon, roller skate musical

That shit was great. My grandad took me to see it. Not sure what he made of it, but he loved Queen, so he may have liked it.

At least 69

Whenever I'm getting charged with pozzed loads, i exclusively listen to my real-life (seriously) good friends Nick, Stav and Adam.

​@forlornfuture2630 thank you Ian, very cool.

So just Tim Curry

@@PhatPhrank no, really gay

Theory: Any public stage is a place where the rules of sexual percentages are reversed. In society we assume, for statistical reasons, that a given man is straight. However, if a man is on a stage he must be assumed gay until proven straight. This is not due to statistics, its due to magic, wonderful fabulous magic.

No real straight man would ever crossdress and be on Rocky Horror Picture Show

Can we get another clue

Chinese?

Pan?

@@BananaPhoPhilly *squints* I dont know man. You tell me.

@@wormwoodcocktail da express?

For me it was the whore cat. Bombalurina. She could get it.

Nice to know cats was your furry awakening

Putting the rump in Rumpleteazer

Even in a musical with next to no plot, they completely change the tone of many songs. Weird choices all around.

Cringe comment, in which I don’t see myself.

Where'd you hear this ?

Yeah this just isn’t true

Adam, you bug

Wow, you're doing like post irony cringe?

Ether binges would produce something more competent...

take my updoot!

Had us in the first half ngl

I get it. It's still shitty to watch and the gayest thing on Earth. Memories is good though. I am gay as well.

That's a cute excuse for a lot of queers wanting to sing and play dress up. I'm sure it was a lot of fun for them

"palm door"

E-lish

I hate Adam

Damn even gays don't like it

You'd do both?

Hey roach dog jr

“Eliot, tell us about the new gay musical you’re making.”

@@TonyToughNuts There’s nothing more illusion shattering than when you discover Andrew Lloyd Webber is 100% straight

I’ve learned from these comments that there’s a fat cat character called “Bustopher Jones” (not joking)

The cowards attitude

invalid opinion, still gay

​@@grimble4564you LIKE cats?

andrew lloyd webber was a curse to broadway

@@tardwife nah, he has a couple bangers. Namely Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar