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Cats was always divinely snarkable, beginning with its provenance.
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How could anyone look at the morally knotty and verbally profound oeuvre of T. S. Eliot and say, 'Yes, let’s make a musical out of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, that collection of dorky ailurophile doggerel he extemporized for his godchildren'?
Yet that’s what Andrew Lloyd Webber, a fan of the material since youth, chose to do, setting the faintly embarrassing adventures of Rum Tum Tugger, Mungojerrie, Jennyanydots, and the rest to melody and, with the director Trevor Nunn, arranging the results to suggest a story.
Not much of one, though: Eliot’s estate forbade the use of any text not by Eliot. Cats is therefore more of a song cycle or feline vaudeville than a work of musical theater; one skit or riff is followed by another, with little holding the compilation together except whatever suggestion of transcendence a production can squeeze out of moody lightin
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