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:

1 October 1997

Note: The cast for this production has changed since the writing of this review. For current cast details, please see the Cats listing entry. If you have seen the current cast and would like to send in your comments for posting on this page, please email us.

Being the longest-running musical ever - on both sides of the Atlantic - is no mean feat. But those composers who covet it may be waiting long into the next century - Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, which first opened in London in 1991, shows no signs of relinquishing its title.

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Latest User Review

USER: Whatsonstage.com - 7 May 2002:

How anyone can hate this is beyond my mind. It isn't mediocre, it is magical. Please go and enjoy it. Cats was designed to show you magic. All the cynics who hate it are narrow-minded moaners who just want to spoil the brilliance. Get a life you people and leave Cats to run its magnificent spell. Quick. Go, before it's too late....

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