Klarinet Archive - Posting 000558.txt from 2000/09

From: "Ian Black" <clarinet1@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] "Cats"
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:44:15 -0400

Sorry for the late response to this, I've been on holiday.

What changes were made for the US audience? What did they lose and what (if anything) did they add?

I saw Cats in London in the 80's and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I can't imagine it changed in any
way...

Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Morrow <scottdmorrow@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] "Cats"

> I am not a Sir Andy Lloyd-Webber fan by any means! However, I think "Cats"
> works because it had a great lyricist! Don't think of it as a "variety
> show"; think of it as a revue of poems by T.S.Eliot! To Lloyd-Webber's
> credit, though: there is not a single "meow" music cliché in the score that
> I can recall!
> (If you've only seen/heard the "American" version, check out the original
> London version. They "dumbed it down" for us Americans - took out some
> WONDERFUL numbers and rewrote the music to some others).
> -Scott
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