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Genre : Musical / Play
Running Time : 2 hours and 30 minutes, one 15-minute intermission
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Show Biography - Cats
Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS, has been proclaimed the most popular musical in the world.
Dubbed 'the musical of the century', CATS is a theatrical phenomenon, holding the record as the longest running musical ever in London and New York.
Since opening in London in 1981, CATS has been seen my more than 65 million people worldwide. It has been staged in more than 150 cities in over 40 productions and in 14 languages.It was winner of the London Evening Standard Award and Olivier Award in 1981, and gathered seven coveted Tony Awards on Broadway in 1983.
Though Cats is no longer playing 'Now and Forever' on Broadway, a non-Equity national tour is still going strong and currently takes up house at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati. Though somewhat of a fossil now in comparison to other 'modern' musical spectacles, this production continues to entertain, thanks in large part to its fine performers.
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 Cats is based on the poems contained in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The very unique and individualized members of the tribe of Jellicle Cats arrive for their annual celebration at the junkyard. The gathering culminates with the selection of one feline to be taken up into the heavyside layer, where he or she will be reborn into a new life. Each member of the group is introduced and their very human-like qualities explained.
Cats was one of the first of what would be many musicals, along with Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera, to transfer from London and dominate Broadway during the 1980s. Part of what made these British 'spectacles' so popular were their large-scale design elements. Cats helped to pioneer the trend towards large sets and splashy lighting effects. Though technical advances quickly brought on more elaborate productions, the show was cutting edge in the early 1980s and is still impressive. The large junkyard set by John Napier is filled with lots of fascinating nooks and crannies and David Hersey's active lighting scheme has many fine moments.
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