| re: CATS - THE JELLICLE BALL | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:08 pm EDT 07/12/24 | |
| In reply to: re: CATS - THE JELLICLE BALL - Chromolume 04:53 pm EDT 07/12/24 | |
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| You guys... PLEASE. A reality check. I did not create Cats. I didn't not design or direct or produce the original production which ran FOREVER on Broadway and the West End, and globally, and toured the world over and over in the same production, that was filmed and released to the public for preservation, that was revived in the same basic (very literal interpretation) production as the original, NOR did I make the very literal hollywood film of it. *I* did not decide that the way Cats is done and seen, for over 30 damn years, in all conceivable iterations, would be literal. But it is. It was. It has been. I am not proposing it must be that way always, or even should be ever again. I am saying what is just observably true... when a show is written and presented one way, not just in the extraordinarily, record-breakingly long original runs, but also in the film, in the movie, in the revival... that the people who made it and control it and produce have ALWAYS seen it this way, wrote and conceived it this way, and stuck to that since it premiered and FOR OVER 30 YEARS. So yes... breaking from that as notably as this production has... IS RADICAL. Radical is not bad. It's good necessarily either. This conversation has very little to do with how amazing or not any given person finds this new production. I agree with you that it IS more fun to go with the whimsical nature over literal imagery (and I think both, and many more, visions for it have a place if people want to pay to see them). |
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