Cats

Synopsis

Song and dance based loosely on the T.S.Elliot poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The plot is that all the cats are gathering for the Jellicle Ball at which one will be bestowed with an extra life. All the performers are cats in a outsize alley which takes over the whole auditorium. The show has a loose story but is essentially a series of pieces about the individual cats, their personalities and their lives. During the interval there is a chance for younger members of the audience to meet a cat and get an autograph. Time Out calls it the dancing moggie show.

Our Review:

4 April 2013

The Cats in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical of that name, are independent, free thinking tabbies, tortoiseshells,  and scruffy old moggies.  Calling themselves Jellicles, some are proud, some are sly as they prowl and dance in feline fashion as reflected in T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s book of Practical Cats.
 
They have human characteristics and gather at the Jellicle Ball hoping that wise Old Deuteronomy, their leader, will choose them to go to the Heaviside layer and be reborn into a new Jellicle life. Nicholas Pound in that role is a wise old puss indicated well by his poise, movement and commanding voice.
 
They meet on a moonlit junk yard to tell tales in song, dance and verse. The collective noun for cats is a clowder.   This clowder of cats played by a brilliant cast are all talented so it is almost impossible to single out individual performers.
 
The lively and expressive dancing is conti...

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