| CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL | |
| Last Edit: sergius 08:22 pm EDT 07/13/24 | |
| Posted by: sergius 08:21 pm EDT 07/13/24 | |
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| A happening. CATS was always—and at best—a waggish show, but it was never very interesting. Now (and forever?) it’s transformed. As an homage to Ballroom culture and to queer ingenuity, CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL is plainly exhilarating. It makes of marginalization a celebration and it reifies the ways in which oppression can enable invention and, of course, community. Amazingly, CATS has become renegade theatre. This production is ragged and wild. Its rough boisterousness really captures the Ballroom experience and is tonally similar to the countercultural theatre of the 1960s. If it moves to Broadway, which it should, I hope they don’t slick it up—just improve the sound, please—or otherwise refine the show’s craggy and larky charm. Look, a new day has begun. | |
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