Apropos
to Practical Cats
Valerie Eliot, CATS the Book of the Musical
TSE also remarked that 'The great thing about cats is that they
possess two qualities to an extreme degree - dignity and comicality.'
The
Choreographing of Cats
Gillian Lynne, CATS the Book of the Musical
To borrow from the words of one of T.S. Eliot's marvelous poems seems the most apt
way to describe my task in staging the songs and dances for Cats.
Tails
of Two Cities
Trevor Nunn, CATS the Book of the Musical
The making of Cats can be commemorated in many ways... but it seems to me that a brief record
of mishap and might-have-been can only add piquancy to a volume that illustrates what
finally was.
Up
up up to the Heaviside Layer
Andrew Lloyd Webber, CATS the Book of the Musical
I began setting Old
Possum's Book of Practical Cats to music late in 1977, partly because it is a book I
remember with affection from my childhood and partly because I wanted to set existing
verse to music.
Going
to London to See the Queen?
Richard Corliss, Time Magazine, 1981
Catch a nine-lively musical called Cats.
Cats
Richard Gilman, The Nation, 1982
0ne's opinion of anything in the
theater ... shouldn't result from having kept a balance sheet, yet that
was the way I found myself watching Cats.
The
'Cats' Meow on Broadway NEW
Jack Kroll, Newsweek, 1982
T. S. Eliot's light-verse
classic is married to song and dance in the most extravagant musical
ever to come to the United States from a foreign shore.
Homage
to Cats
Brendan Gill, The New Yorker, 1982
Judged as a spectacle instead of simply as a musical, "Cats"
is a triumph... Old Possum was a devotee of musical theatre; he would
have rejoiced to see his cats in glory on Broadway.
Making
the Cats Meow
Richard Corliss, Time Magazine, 1982
A British hit musical comes purring to Broadway.
Mayhem
in the Cat(h)edral NEW
John Simon, New York Journal, 1982
Cats has players to thrill you, cunning
devices to keep your eyeballs rolling, and, finally, too much dazzlement.
O
That Anthropomorphical Rag
T.E. Kalem, Time Magazine, 1982
The ecology of Broadway
demands mega-hits, the kind of supercharged shows that most ordinary
playgoers have to wait months to see. Cats qualifies.
They
Just Keep Rolling Along
William A. Henry III, Time Magazine, 1991
On sudden-death Broadway, what makes musicals like Cats and Les
Miserables so durable -- and why do they last so much longer than hits
of the past?
Backstage
with Merlyn Davis NEW
Betty Buckley, Broadway Day & Night, 1992
Merlyn and I had a laugh over that
one - I, being the girl singer in Cats, a $5.5-million musical wherein
all cats but me were miked.
It's
a CATS Life NEW
Bob Ickes, New York Journal, 1992
"At Cats," she says,
"I'm the show before the show." Why? "Because, let's face
it: I'm entertaining." The truth? Because - let's face it - she's
an usher.
Generations:
Liz Callaway and Betty Buckley, cats NEW
People Weekly, 1994
If a cat has nine lives, then the
fallen feline in Broadway's longest running show has only two left.
Another
Singular Sensation: CATS Plays One for the Books NEW
Jennifer Senior, New York Journal, 1997
On Thursday... CATS will have its 6,138th performance, thereby...
making the tag line "Now and Forever" seem an ever-more-viable
threat. Is there some supernatural significance to this figure?
Cats'
Meow
People Magazine, 1999
Retiree Bob Martin thinks London's
longest-running musical is so purr-fect he has seen it 625 times
(so far)
The
Last Meow
People Magazine, 2000
After a record-setting 18-year run, Cats bids Broadway bye-bye.
Lynne...
and her litter NEW
Harry Haun, Playbill Magazine, 2000
As Cats approaches the end of its record run on Broadway,
choreographer Gillian Lynne reflects on the show that changed her life.
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