[EdnaMode]

Cats the movie? What decade is this?

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Great casting!

[rktman]

:-). Mrs. rktman “took” me to see the play once upon a time. I was snoozing within 5 minutes. She was not happy, If I want to see “furries”(which I don’t) I would simply go to one of the local casinos where they gather once a year. Got caught up in them by accident (no, really) once. If it works for them, well, okay. Me, not so much. LOL!

[fwdude]

They’re milking it for everything.

[Cecily]

For some reason, I have never wanted to see this show, and I like most musicals.

[relictele]

Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden and Ian McKellen

Well at least they're giving unknowns a chance at stardom via quality performances *eye roll*.

This one has 'The Wiz' written all over it. Big names. Famous title. Lots of hype. Bomb.

[dfwgator]

"I was 19 years old when the musical "Cats" came to our town. I couldn't wait to see it. After the show, I was asked if I wanted to meet some of the performers backstage. Man, I was thrilled. But when I got back there, they were drunk and out of control. Rumpus Cat and Macavity kept feeling up my leg. I tried to leave, but Rumpleteazer held me down and... I was raped by Mr. Mistoffelees"

[KC_Lion]

If my Tay Tay wasn’t famous she would be a crazy cat lady already.

[PGR88]

After seeing Lea Salonga and Philip Quast perform in Les Miserables, watching the likes of Anne Hathaway and Russel Crowe sing on film was like 2 hours of nails on a chalkboard.

Hollywood stars are put in these re-make musicals for pure marketing and sales. Not because they are good at musical theater.

[VanDeKoik]

The cats will all be gender spade and neutered!

[MrEdd]

This is nothing.

They are casting Hugh Jackman in a big screen remake of “The Amazing Alexander.”
It’s better than “Cats.”
You’ll want to see it again and again.

[dfwgator]

You can bet they’ll be some faggotry in it.

[PLMerite]

I saw Cats onstage in DC decades ago. Fantastic.

This could be great, if they don’t find a way to screw it up.

[cyclotic]

I’m don’t have much appreciation for Broadway Musicals. I fell asleep at the last one I went to and wondering why I dropped $700 on a bunch of tickets to a play.

But, a few weeks ago, my wife wanted to see a movie adaptation of a musical. Some outfit is filming Broadway productions and doing a small two-day run at select theatres. This one was a play called Bandstand. It was about returning WWII vets dealing with undiagnosed PTSD and a tight labor market. The vets were all musicians who formed a band. I have to say that is was excellent and I truly enjoyed it. Not enough to go again, but it was really good.

[Yaelle]

Yesss!

[babble-on]

“Old Possum” was Ezra Pound’s nickname for T.S. Eliot

Eliot had given up writing poetry and was about to go to grad school in philosophy, but Pound made him show him something he’d written. It turned out to be “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” that Pound forced the editor of Poetry Magazine to publish, even though she thought it was rubbish.

[RayChuang88]

I'm actually surprised they didn't do an animated version of this show years ago by animating real cats.

[Wuli]

I can listen to the music. I never could watch the play. I walked out on the broadway show, leaving my friends to watch it on their own. Something about adults acting as adult animals in animal costumes is a mixture I just can’t stand. I find it revolting. Call me an old prude. Or, maybe I just hate cats.

[real saxophonist]

My family went to NYC, some years ago. One night, they all went to see Cats. I went to see George Coleman at a tiny little place on Bleecker Street.

[Rum Tum Tugger]

Love Cats. Can you guess why?

[x]

Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, James Corden and Ian McKellen have been cast in Working Title’s upcoming movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash musical “Cats.”

Gays taking over musical comedy. What's next?