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Cats. No, not the animal, silly, the play! I'm watching my old VHS of it now, after having negotiated mother into giving me the old TV, h'm...
But I digress. Cats is the longest-running show on Broadway. Essentially, for those who've never seen/heard of it, imagine about twenty people running about in a giant junkyard, in cat costumes, singing and generally acting... er... catlike. It's... it's better than it sounds, really. The songs are mostly a series of poems by T. S. Elliot, set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (which basically makes it gorram awesome, so...)
It was my first exposure to Broadway (saw it live in London, w00t, after having obsessed over the filmed stage for years).
Anyone else seen it (live or the filmed stage), heard of it, heard the songs... Thoughts?
I've seen it twice. Once years ago in a professional theater in Chicago and just a few years ago in a small community theater, and I loved it both times.
TNÖ, have you heard of Starlight Express? That's another great one by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It's the "story" of a little boy's fantasy that trains race on the ceiing of his bedroom. The train cars are performers on Rollerblades, and they skate on ramps all around the audience. Really cool. Just as each cat in Cats has a distinct personality, each train car is unique and sings a different style of music. ALW is a genius. He writes in so many different styles. Then there's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. I think he wrote that when he was about 16.
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submitted by TNÖ, age 15, Deep Space
(June 6, 2009 - 8:18 pm)
(June 6, 2009 - 8:18 pm)
I've seen the musical Cats and the movie. I think we saw it in St. louis or something. My favorite Cat is Rum Tum Tugger, then Makavity, then Bombalerina and the other girl-cat that she sings the song "Makavity" with. Then all the other cats I like the same. Me and my siters watched the songs on yuo tube and after that weretrying to do the ballet/gymnastics that the cats were doing. I got to lift my foot up over my head while balancing in one foot. I L♥VE CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(June 12, 2009 - 9:03 am)
Demeter is her name. The other cat that sings Macavity?
(also it's spelled Macavity, not Makavity)
(June 12, 2009 - 1:10 pm)
OH. MY. GOSH. I CANNNOT BELIEVE THIS IS A TOPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was just about to start one when I saw this. Alright.....
First of all, Meadow, it's MACAVITY. His name isn't that hard to spell.
Second of all, the movie is amazing! It's way better live because,
1: Everyone who play the characters are perfect and rock and are amazing and fantasmical and ect. ect. ect.
2: You can see and hear everycat just fine!
3: They are all amazing singers and dancers! The best!!!
4: There's more, but....'nuf said.
Third of all,
MMMMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTOOOOOOO
IS ABSOLUTLEY FANTASMICAL AND AMAZING AND AWESOME AND MARVELOUS AND MAGICAL AND....AND....AND STUFF!!!!!
GO MISTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fourth of all: Medow, the other cat who sings with Bombalurina is Demeter.
CATS, as you can probably tell, is my favorite movie, musical, topic, other stuff....I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!
Thank you, (insert whoever started it here) for starting this topic!! You rock!!
Okay....I'll return later--
Oh!
Favorites!
1: Mistoffelees (Duh)
2: Jemima
3: Munkustrap and Skimbleshanks tie
4: Rum Tum Tugger
5: Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer
6: Demeter
And on and on and on.......
Bye for now!
And we all say........
(June 16, 2009 - 7:38 pm)
Cool! Another Julia! :D:D:D:D
(June 17, 2009 - 1:39 pm)
Wow, your favorites list is almost the same as mine. Well exactly the same for the first three!
(June 18, 2009 - 12:39 pm)
Woa, buddy! (I'm conscious now! /Ghost of the Cinema inside joke that none of y'all will get) Take a breath before you pass out on the floor.
Also, I started this topic. You may leave the Chocolate Box of Gratitude at 138 West Pie Street (is immediately shot, once in the shoulder, once in the stomach) (/House jokes from, like, season 2).
"...Oh, well, I never was there ever..."
Hem. Anyway. Drat it all now that's stuck in my head. :)
Actually, no, THIS is stuck in my head:
"The Pekes and the Pollicles everyone knows
Are proud and implacable passionate foes
It is always the same wherever one goes..."
(June 22, 2009 - 7:45 pm)
Any songs from CATS is the best to have stuck in your head!!!
(June 23, 2009 - 6:47 pm)
Ohhh! Ahh! We should have a cats roleplay! I'm already in two online. But I mean, like, here.
(August 31, 2009 - 11:51 am)
This thread is a jillion years old, but I looovvvvvveeeeeee Cats, so I might as well try to bring it up to the top!
Hmmm, my favorite characters... Gahhh, too hard! I love Macavity, Munkustrap, and Bombalurina the most, I think. Followed by Misto, Jemima, Demeter, Mungojerrie, Rumpelteazer, and, ummm, everyone else?
My favorite songs are Macavity, and Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer.
(September 18, 2011 - 11:08 am)