“Cats” reached a pop culture status that was virtually peerless until “Hamilton.” It scampered past Broadway records, grossed billions of dollars worldwide and ushered in the age of big-money musicals of the 1980s, like “Les Misérables” and “The Phantom of the Opera.”Despite ridiculous names like Rumpleteazer and Rum Tum Tugger, the cats of “Cats” are surprisingly human. Yet it was phenomenally successful, earning Tony Awards including for best musical and best featured actress (Betty Buckley, who brought down the house at the ceremony singing “Memory”). This ostracized cat doesn’t cough bloody hairballs into her handkerchief, but she does get her own Puccini-flavored ballad in “Memory,” the song that earned Elaine Paige in London and Betty Buckley in New York eternal fame.Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musical exists in a neon-drenched netherworld where horror and tedium become one.A magnitude 4.2 earthquake centered near San Fernando struck at 4:29 a.m., followed by a 3.3 quake at 4:38 and a 3.8 quake at 6:48.Stars Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas deserve better than “The Secret: Dare to Dream,” a contrived romantic drama adapted from the Oprah Winfrey-endorsed bestseller “The Secret.”Charles McNulty is the theater critic of the Los Angeles Times. I didn’t want anything to do with it.’” According to Jacobs, Stritch walked out at intermission.After he hangs up, he calls her a bleeping tourist. 1,289 notes. Eliot had written to his publisher that mentioned a gathering of “Jellicle Cats” that ended with a trip to the Heaviside Layer in a big air balloon. Before the new movie adaptation comes out, catch up on its four-decade history.When the “Cats” team later found that the show lacked an emotional core, he dug it out and played them the song. What Could Have Been: "Memory" was a late addition to the soundtrack, as it isn't based on any of the TS Elliot poems in the book. “The Lion King.”Surely there must be some feline magic in the musical’s weave. Want to know what’s third?
This is a dance musical, in which the book is subsidiary to spectacle and motion. Elaine Stritch, Actress: 30 Rock. Cathy specifically asked for her because she adored her. But she fell and injured herself while rehearsing “The Old Gumbie Cat.”There was a poem about Grizabella, which according to Valerie Eliot her husband had found too depressing for children. (Why did James Corden, who looks more like a penguin than a cat, and Rebel Wilson, who sprawls gamely on her back, submit themselves to so much fat shtick?) But mostly it was just a dusky pantomime set on an urban Disneyland trash heap.
He didn’t have to turn his attention from “Hamlet” and “Romeo and Juliet” to a theatrical litter box.Deconstructing the lampooning powers of Sarah Cooper and J-L Cauvin, who do Trump better than Trump himself.Joe Kelly released the months of pent-up rage the Dodgers and their fans have been feeling ever since MLB found the Houston Astros cheated in 2017.No, I’m not proud to have momentarily succumbed. Cats wasn’t filmed on Broadway, but the original production was captured on a stage in London in 1998, with original West End star Elaine Paige no less.
Here are 10 facts to get started.This kind of reception has followed the show since its premiere in 1981, when it immediately became both a punch line and a watershed for musical theater. We are not affiliated with Ticketmaster or any other box office. “May your heaven be a booze-soaked, no-pants solo show at the Carlyle,” eulogized Lena Dunham, a fan.
The plot rebuffs scrutiny. Her Sally Bowles in “Cabaret” was a triumph around town, and she could lend the amorphous “Cats” some cachet as Grizabella. ‘I just hated every minute of it,’ she said. Popular taste can be easily dismissed. Jennifer Hudson’s sobbing rendition doesn’t hold a candle to Paige’s or Buckley’s. After this she became better known as a stage musical actress, though she would also appear in such films as Three Violent People and Providence, and the award-winning television series Two's Company.