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Lobok posted:What even is the story of Cats? I could read the synopsis somewhere but I'd rather have a goon explain it to me with the appropriate level of derision and animosity. the shortest possible summary: Andrew Lloyd Webber did a metric loving poo poo-ton of coke while reading TS Eliot's cat poems. a slightly longer summary: it's essentially a look at, for lack of a better way of putting it, cat culture. we witness a tribe of "Jellicle" cats going through a single night, on which they perform a magic ritual that causes one of the cats (chosen by the elder patriarch of the cats) to ascend to space, upon which they will be reincarnated. I swear to christ I did not make a single word of that up. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Oct 17, 2018 |
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Oct 17, 2018 04:55
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That sounds uncannily like my original idea for the Alien prequel.
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Oct 17, 2018 04:58
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I gotta give them credit though, there's no possible way you could pitch or sell that nowadays, nevermind have it run for 25 years as a Broadway staple.
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Oct 17, 2018 05:01
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:the shortest possible summary: Andrew Lloyd Webber did a metric loving poo poo-ton of coke while reading TS Eliot's cat poems. Sounds like a HP Lovecraft thing. At one point the protagonist befriending space cats from the moon is a plot point and they come back to rescue him later. (also, more blatant racism involving cats) At a guess they'd likely very loosely adapt the characters and maybe themes of Cats into a coherent narrative.
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Oct 17, 2018 05:06
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I didn't really get why Andrew Lloyd Weber was so hated until I saw a segment about a reality show he was involved with on Screenwipe. a 3 second shot of his smug rear end face and I understood.
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Oct 17, 2018 05:07
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I feel like Cats has to have one of the biggest deltas between cultural longevity and quality in all the history of the West.
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Oct 17, 2018 05:09
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the thing is Cats is actually, like, genuinely a good musical. it's also batshit loving insane.
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Oct 17, 2018 05:13
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:the thing is Cats is actually, like, genuinely a good musical. it's also batshit loving insane. Maybe I'm not a true head, I got nothing against ALW but I've always thought it was chintzy. What do you like about it?
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:the thing is Cats is actually, like, genuinely a good musical. it's also batshit loving insane. //Specifically: Gus The Theatre Cat actually captures some remorse and wistfulness and is written in a fun way. Mestophilees' dance is technically difficult and impressive and it goes on for a long loving time Griz basically birthed a musical standard. I guess the whole moment os the centerpiece of the show, too. Everything else is just mediocre to  Which would be fine if there was a plot to catch you between the crazyness FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Oct 17, 2018 |
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Oct 17, 2018 05:20
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Maybe I'm not a true head, I got nothing against ALW but I've always thought it was chintzy. What do you like about it? honestly, everything around the songs is somewhere between "dumb as hell" and "JESUS CHRIST HOW MUCH COKE DID ALW DO", but the songs themselves are pretty universally great. the ones FilthyImp mentioned in particular are especially good. i'm not really a true head either and i've only seen it pretty much by pure coincidence, but i remember actually being weirdly impressed with it considering its reputation as weird kitsch.
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Oct 17, 2018 05:31
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Some of the songs ARE good but I think there's just no way around the fact that they're being sung by cats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-L6rEm0rnY
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Oct 17, 2018 05:38
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e: nvm, 
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Oct 17, 2018 05:53
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FilthyImp posted:here's Rum Tum Tugger, a selifish and contrary cat! aka just a normal fuckin cat
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Oct 17, 2018 06:23
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Unless you're going to get Paul F Tompkins as Andrew Lloyd Webber to direct it, what's the loving point? Also, every cat is played by Aubrey Plaza in slightly different facepaint
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Oct 17, 2018 07:36
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The fact that Cats is responsible, in a very roundabout way, of crediting T.S Eliotas writer on a rucking Andrew Loyd Webber musical will never stop to make me laugh.
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Oct 17, 2018 08:23
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FilthyImp posted:Everything else is just mediocre to I liked "Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles, With Some Account of the Participation of the Pugs and the Poms and the Intervention of the Great Rumpuscat". Say what you like about Cats but I've seen it twice on stage (once in the year before it closed on the West End and once as a touring production) and it's less of a chore to sit through than The Phantom of the Opera or Evita. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat is a lot better, though.
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Oct 17, 2018 08:34
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FilthyImp posted:It's based off of a T.S. Elliot set of poems about some junkyard strays his kid called Jellicle Cats (who knows why).  jesus can you imagine Cats in its heyday if tumblr existed I think we'd all long for the future of rapping founding fathers
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Oct 17, 2018 09:09
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FilthyImp posted:Gus, Mestophilees and Grizabella have good bits. please do not plagiarize SMG's aliens prequel
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Oct 17, 2018 09:16
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Having been dragged by my parents to nearly every ALW musical playing in the West End when I was a kid, I can say with absolute confidence that nothing will ever be as bad as Starlight Express, the rock opera romance about anthropomorphic trains.
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Oct 17, 2018 09:19
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Having been dragged by my parents to nearly every ALW musical playing in the West End when I was a kid, I can say with absolute confidence that nothing will ever be as bad as Starlight Express, the rock opera romance about anthropomorphic trains. this artwork is pretty  I gotta say  
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Oct 17, 2018 09:27
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I just tried to read the Wiki synopsis for Cats and all the cat names gave me brain cancer. The summary up-thread sounds entertainingly hosed up, but I don't know what to make of the fact that every character is named something like Mr. Tiddlywinks.
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Oct 17, 2018 09:37
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me and my mom were discussing all of the musicals we've seen over the years, since we make it to New York to see things fairly regularly and also when they come on tour closer to us, and there was unanimous agreement between us that Cats was the worst thing we've seen on stage. I really like musicals but both Rogers & Hammerstein and ALW are very hit or miss for me.
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Oct 17, 2018 09:45
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Grendels Dad posted:I just tried to read the Wiki synopsis for Cats and all the cat names gave me brain cancer. The summary up-thread sounds entertainingly hosed up, but I don't know what to make of the fact that every character is named something like Mr. Tiddlywinks. One of the poems - "The Naming of Cats" - is actually about this very topic. It says that all cats have three names: the names their human owners give them; the names they use when they interact with other cats; and their secret name which they call themselves. (This poem was a sequel to "The Waste Land".)
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Oct 17, 2018 09:57
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while we're on the subject im genuinely curious if theres obscure plays that were spectacular failures that are  to read about
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Oct 17, 2018 10:12
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Alan Smithee posted:while we're on the subject im genuinely curious if theres obscure plays that were spectacular failures that are Lionel Bart sold the rights to Oliver! for £350 (to a promoter who subsequently sold them on for £250,000) to finance productions of musicals like the resoundingly unsuccessful Twang!! and the notorious La Strada which was infamously cancelled after a single performance. Of course Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark should require no introduction.
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Oct 17, 2018 10:16
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Wheat Loaf posted:
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Alan Smithee posted:oh please do This is a reasonably good summary. One of the various projects that eventually became Batman '89 was a Broadway musical which would have featured songs by Jim Steinman, who's most famous for writing "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" for Bonnie Tyler and the first two Bat Out of Hell albums for Meat Loaf and whose main musical theatre contribution had been the composition of the music for Tanz der Vampire. For example, the Joker's song ("Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys?") showed up as a line of Jack Nicholson's dialogue in the movie. As late as 2006, songs like "Cry To Heaven" (which was supposed to be Batman's big showstopping number or something) and the fantastically-named "In the Land of the Pig, the Butcher Is King" (an ensemble piece to be performed by the Gotham City crime bosses) were appearing on Bat Out of Hell III.
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Oct 17, 2018 10:23
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Alan Smithee posted:oh please do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RgR0-EWuNY
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Grendels Dad posted:I just tried to read the Wiki synopsis for Cats and all the cat names gave me brain cancer. The summary up-thread sounds entertainingly hosed up, but I don't know what to make of the fact that every character is named something like Mr. Tiddlywinks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRfbPGXcMLM
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Having been dragged by my parents to nearly every ALW musical playing in the West End when I was a kid, I can say with absolute confidence that nothing will ever be as bad as Starlight Express, the rock opera romance about anthropomorphic trains. I forget what the gently caress I was watching that Starlight Express came up in, I presume some kind of documentary I found at 3AM, but learning that "Oh, this thing you've never heard of has been running non-stop in a custom theater in Germany for 25 (at the time) years, here, take a look" was the closest I've ever come to an acid trip as they showed one of the songs in its entirety as a full cast of rollerskating performers began flying around a multi-story track lit up like they were Michael Jackson in the Billie Jean video everywhere they flew.
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Oct 17, 2018 11:58
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The weirdest scene in Cats is the scene where the lead cat has a fight with the villain but they try to stage it like two actual cats fighting, so what you get is a pair of grown men in furry unitards sort of leaning over one another and pretending to scratch each other. Then the villain beats the hero, throws him off to the side of the stage and the other performers all mime licking him, because they're cats.
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Oct 17, 2018 12:28
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Look, there's no one like MacCavity. No one.
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Oct 17, 2018 12:36
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He's a fiend in feline form; a monster of depravity.
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Oct 17, 2018 12:38
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The whole concept of people dancing like cats just makes the whole thing unseemly, like that dalmatian dance the dean watches in Community. It’s like there’s an aesthetic/erotic boundary that gets crossed in a very wrong way when you have humans emulate the movements of cats.
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Oct 17, 2018 12:44
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And this is a reminder to watch "The Producers".
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Oct 17, 2018 12:44
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C-Bangin' it 
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Or is it just that the depravity of the internet has made everything unseemly?
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Oct 17, 2018 12:45
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The actual cats book of poetry, by the way, is extremely accessible, you could read it as a children's book
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Oct 17, 2018 12:48
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Wheat Loaf posted:Of course Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark should require no introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR1DdMeVqTw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcrc4VdoueE
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Guy Mann posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR1DdMeVqTw I guess you could say grover brought down the house
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