'Heart Of Gold'
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Jesus Fucking Christ, it's Belinda: The Musical. [link]
Honestly, that's not as bad as I feared. As someone who saw Cats on Broadway ages and ages ago and thought the people as cats looked fairly ridiculous, this is mostly* an improvement?
But I just suffered through the new Lion King so that might have something to do with it.
[*Judi Dench excepted]
My feeling is, everything doesn't need to be a movie, or redone.
The plot of Cats:
Once a year, all the Jellicle cats gather together to choose a cat who will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and be reborn. One by one, each cat makes his/her case (or has their case made for them by a narrator cat) until eventually [SPOILER CAT] is chosen, and ascends, and the cats all celebrate. Halfway through the proceedings, they get distracted and put on a play-within-a-play about dogs. (Which had better not involve more CGI. I want to see Taylor Swift as a cat wearing a fucking traffic cone on her head.)
Once a year, all the Jellicle cats gather together to choose a cat who will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and be reborn. One by one, each cat makes his/her case (or has their case made for them by a narrator cat) until eventually [SPOILER CAT] is chosen, and ascends, and the cats all celebrate.
This is pretty funny if you know that I watched Logan's Run last night for the first time.
Huh. I always thought it was the story of how a group of Furries invented Modernist Poetry.
This is pretty funny if you know that I watched Logan's Run last night for the first time.
IT IS THE SAME PLOT YES
For those who do like cats (the animals, not this particular iteration), it's based on T.S. Eliot's book of poems, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" ... which I expect will come out in a new version once the movie hits (unless the uproar over the horror cancels the whole thing which, yes, is going on elsewhere). They're charming little poems, geared towards the younger set ... the previous edition (which came out when the stage show was a THING) had Edward Gorey illustrations (he loved cats, so it was a natural match). I imagine there are multiple copies of that floating around, new or used, if anyone has any interest.
Look, my cat doesn't sing or dance, so I can't endorse it because it's wildly unrealistic.
(Can you imagine Cats the musical with a Murderbiscuit? CAN YOU???)
(Can you imagine Cats the musical with a Murderbiscuit? CAN YOU???)
MacCavity's real name is Murderbiscuit. He just doesn't let people use it in public. #TrueCatsFacts
McCavity wasn't there!
I have the copy with the Gorey drawings.