Cats

[arethinn]

My husband and I watched a DVD of Cats last night, which I had never seen before. And. Um. It... wasn't really all that good? Maybe it would have been different if we'd seen a live performance, but I dunno, the music just seemed kind of... tacked on and strange, and I came away feeling that I liked Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats better just as a collection of poems. (And I kept hearing echoes of The Phantom of the Opera in one of the songs, but I guess that's not terribly surprising; it was just sort of distracting.)

Comments

[feyandstrange]

It predated Phantom by many years, but yeah, Lloyd Weber repeats themes. It does work a lot better on a stage.

[valkyriur.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it would have made a difference seeing it in theater. It's a popular musical, but a lot of people don't like it.

[mmsword.livejournal.com]

I liked the stagecraft and costuming and a couple of the song, but I never did understand why it was one of the longest running Broadway shows.

[arethinn]

Yeah, I did like those okay. But like you I was kind of like "and this was the sensation that is the second-longest running show of all time?" (The DVD packaging, since it was released in 2000, claims longest and how it had beat A Chorus Line, which apparently is now sixth place.)