We wanted to recapture one of our earliest, most impressionable theater moments together, with each other. Or at least to try. We sat watching Cats, waiting for the magic. Skimbleshanks made my pulse quicken a little; Rum Tug Tugger made hers. Why did she like it so much? The Scene. Type keyword s to search. Universal Pictures. This content is imported from YouTube.
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These days, we roll our eyes at Cats. But from the moment it opened, it was a smash. A hole was punched into the ceiling over the stage to add a heavenly descending staircase, requiring a new piece of roof above it.
All to convert the theater into an oversized trash pile — into the set of Cats. Cats was a showbiz circus of unprecedented proportions, long before it actually opened at the Winter Garden in October Inside the Winter Garden, however, the giant junkyard set was ugly and drab. The much-hyped dancing was a letdown.
Eliot, the maudlin modernist poet you probably read in college. In essence, Cats was a giant show without much substance — a description that would gradually affix to its creator himself: composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. I don't know why you're all freaking out over miniature yet huge cats with human celebrity faces and sexy breasts performing a demented dream ballet for kids.
I put the song from Us onto the Cats trailer and I think it fits better. When contacted for this article, Lord Lloyd Webber he was knighted in and made a peer in politely declined to be interviewed, noting through his press agent that he wanted all the focus around the new movie to be on Hooper and his vision.
Cats represents the excesses theater fans often associate with Lloyd Webber, with an emphasis on glitz and commercialism, bombast, and perhaps a touch of general weirdness. It may look esoteric and even silly, but all the classic ingredients of the Lloyd Webber musical are there: spectacle, rich singable melodies, and that one hit song everybody knows — all elements that help explain the tremendous cultural impact his shows have had. Love him or hate him, Lloyd Webber delivered emotional theatricality to audiences at a scale that fundamentally changed musical theater.
Born in , Lloyd Webber grew up surrounded by music. His mom was a violinist, his father a successful composer, and his younger brother, Julian, a famous cellist.
Lloyd Webber was already writing musicals when he met Tim Rice at While Rice and Lloyd Webber came out of nowhere, they were anything but anti-establishment, and they had the marketing savvy to prove it. Brace your ears. Lloyd Webber gained a reputation early on for being disloyal and difficult to work with; interviews where he glibly blamed fellow creators and actors for flaws in his productions only furthered this reputation, and it gained traction over the years. 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.
CATS, one of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, received its world premiere at the New London Theatre in where it played for 21 record-breaking years and almost 9, performances. In the Broadway production became the recipient of seven Tony awards including Best Musical, and ran for 18 years.
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