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ralphmeltonI have been negligent about posting journal entries, so I didn't tell y'all about Cats, which we saw on Sunday.
Frankly, I wasn't all that impressed.
The plot, of course, is paper-thin.
The music was very synthesizer-heavy, so much so that it screamed "80's" to me far more than it said "good" or "bad".
So all that was left was the dancing and the women in sleek tights. Which factors were both pretty good, certainly--but the Jazz Nutcracker let me see both much more closely.
It was a decent musical, I suppose, but I don't feel any need or desire to see it again, unlike other musicals.
Frankly, I wasn't all that impressed.
The plot, of course, is paper-thin.
The music was very synthesizer-heavy, so much so that it screamed "80's" to me far more than it said "good" or "bad".
So all that was left was the dancing and the women in sleek tights. Which factors were both pretty good, certainly--but the Jazz Nutcracker let me see both much more closely.
It was a decent musical, I suppose, but I don't feel any need or desire to see it again, unlike other musicals.
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Date: 2002-01-11 02:33 pm (UTC)My take is that all of Cats is really a bunch of character sketches. The first act is nothing but, the second act mixes individual sketches with a sketch of the society. The normal plot elements are missing: there is no protagonist, there is no conflict. It doesn't even follow the same character around. It reads more like an anthropological documentary than a drama, I suppose.
It does a decent job of simulating cats, though. :) And the music is catchy. I was humming it for a week after.