Completed: Cats

alright.... so i just got back from a one night (it is technically 2 nights nows but it was one night when the tickets were bought) performance of Andrew Lloyd Webers' Cats.

The plot is....
um....
uh....
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look i'm sorry but this play made no sense so i'll just explain what i THINK happened in those 190 mins.... so i guess it might contain spoilers? maybe?

So we start in the Trash dump/alleyway and a bunch of stray(?) cats are in an alleyway dancing... but these aren't any old cats.... these are Jellicle cats.....
now what pray tell is a Jellicle cat? that's a very good question.... what you want an answer? ok... *goes to look online* ok... according to wikipedia...

The Jellicle cats, or simple Jellicles, are a type of feline mentioned in T.S. Eliot's book that cats the musical is based on

you have got to be kidding me.... whatever 

So these cats apparently meet once a year and dance under the moon till Kitty Moses decides on which cat gets to be reborn...

um.... okay...

so now we are introduced to some of the cats... as they dance in this Jellicle ball.

Theres a cat that seems to teahc mice and cockroaches things.... i would love to tell you what but i couldn't understand a single word of this song.... but more on that later.

There is Rum Tug Tugger.... the elvis cat that all the girls cats swoon over.... what is it with ALW and elvis.... i have seen two of his plays now and this is the second time there has been an elvis character....

Grizzabell the glamour cat... who for some reason is hated/feared by the other cats cause she's old?

Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer.... who are troublemakers and from the dounss of it not strays since they talk about making a mess in the kitchen... ug i don't know...

and then moses cat comes and everyone is happy as he sits on the stage watching the other cats...
then they sing more about the ball.... it feels like the 3rd or 4th time we've heard this damn song...

then Memory.... the only thing anyone who has seen this play seems to remember....

Intermission-- wait what? nothing has happened.... all that's has happened is they've talked about candidates for the cat that gets to be reborn.... ugh.... okay...

so we come back... more about the ball.... more about the fact that kitty moses will pick one of them and there will be tension and silence apaprently...

then it sais here there is a song about happyness..... nope don't remember it at all...

The theres a theater cat names Gus and this chunk was actually fun... he relives an old play he did when he was much younger and how stageplays today have changed and other then it was a little... hm.... i can't say racist cause they were all cats but i don't know what else it could be called... oh well... it was a lot of fun.... and mostly in another language.... yay Opera... (i do like opera for the record it was just an odd place for it)

then a cat names skimbleshanks.... hm.... nope that memory is gone too.... oh unless it;s the cat on the train.... yeah that was odd... but fun i guess..

Macavity is next.... he steals moses kitty and apparently is the crime lord and therefor the bad guy? um... apparently whenever a crime is committed he's not there, has an alibi... and can levitate.... okay~

Mr. Mistoffelees is here to save the day, a black cat and an illusionist and he changes the siamese cat into kitty moses.... yay solving things i guess?

ah.... memory again, trying to tug at your heartstrings as this sad old former glmour cat sings to kitty moses.... isn't it sad.... well not really sicne all we know about her is that she is all alone in the moonlight.... but the other cats are touched andthey like her now...

now things get strange....

Kitty moses decided glamour cat will be reborn, they go on a platform which is lifted up and i kid you not a UFO comes and picks her up to be reborn... uh... WHAT? ok i know in other versions it's been a cage or a tire but this really looked like a UFO.... the cats are all aliens... maybe thast what a jellicle cat is?

anyways then we get the true message of the story.... Cats are not dogs...

THE END....

What the hell did i just sit through.... this marks the second ALW play i've seen in person and the 4th(?) thing of his i've seen through film....
Jesus christ superstar was amazing... the plot made sense the songs made sense and it's just so good
 Evita was really well done, i'll put it on occasionally just to be serenaded by Antonio Bandaras....
Joseph and the amazing technicolour dreamcoat was strange as all hell but fun.... even if they sing the whole damn thing twice.... and yeah there were plot holes but it was his first kick at the can.

now i may be wrong about this but cats was after all of those.... maybe not Evita.... but still.. and it wasn't very good....

why? why was it not enjoyable.... i can hardly remember any of it an i just sat through it.... i couldn't make head or tails of the plot yet i can follow something like ballet which has no words....

but was it all bad? no.... the lighting was cool.... and.... um..... the cats going into the audience was fun? the singing.... hit and miss.... the theater seems to have some sound issues and half the time the music just overpowered the singing.... most of the dancing was good but..... only good.... not amazing.... not 80 bucks a head worth... but it was a gift from my brother so i can't complain about price.

ugh.... alright.... i'm not saying it's bad.... it just makes no sense at all.... maybe if i could hear the words it would have been better.... but what i did hear was just.... ridiculous

i did like the glowing cat eyes.... kinda want a pair... oh well...