Cats

I know how much hate this show gets in certain areas of the internet, so I'm kind of scared to post here...

So, any other fans of the show?

I stayed away from CATS because I figured I wouldn't like it, but then I happened to come across Old Possum's and crack it open to the Macavity poem, and it got me positively giddy to see the show.

Needless to say, that was the wrong way to get my hopes up. And frankly, it's a lot more fun to try and piece together Eliot's universe - particularly when it comes to the confusing line in "Gus the Theatre Cat" about the Indian Colonel - than it is to see the thin universe Webber has preented us with.

I enjoyed the one live performance I saw of it on Broadway. The VHS version wasn't as good in my opinion, although that's partly due to my bias in how they used post-processing to add special effects.

I've often thought that it would make an interesting show for a high school to pull off.

Considering the hatred the recent movie has gotten and that a lot of people have gone to the 1998 version of the stage production to "cleanse my soul" (yes, I've actually heard that phrase more than a few times I thought I'd give this a bump

I actually really like the original musical. It's a dream of mine to play Grizabella someday.