![]() ![]() And they’re giving us a tail that moves naturally, and ears and whiskers.” It’s somehow this new way that hasn’t been done before. I want to know what else Taylor Swift has seen. “It was one of the coolest things I’ve seen,” Taylor Swift, who plays Bombalurina, told Entertainment Weekly. In the film, there are no catsuits or face paint! The cat fur, tails, ears, and whiskers are added digitally. These extremely tight catsuits are the source of much childhood confusion or distress surrounding the Cats VHS. In the stage musical, the performers dress in tight fur-patterned suits with fuzzy collars, arm warmers, leg warmers and fuzzy headpieces with ears. The other cats judge her ragged coat and colorful past, and shun her.Īfter the lead cats have their moment in the spotlight, Deuteronomy decides that Grizabella deserves to ascend to the Heaviside Layer, and up she goes. During the night, a washed-up old cat named Grizabella attempts to join the festivities several times, but is rejected. The proceedings are overseen by the delightfully rotund and kind Deuteronomy, although the shadow of the dread criminal cat Macavity looms.Įach song is generally about a cat introducing itself, or a cat telling a story about its life. The cats gather in a junkyard and introduce themselves in song, making the case for why each one is worthy to enter the Heaviside Layer, the cat equivalent of Heaven, to be reborn as a younger, hotter cat. Universal Pictures What is Cats about?Ĭats is an anthology-style musical that takes place over the course of one night. We do not yet know the long-term effects of Cats on the children who discovered it on VHS, but speaking only for myself, it made me bisexual. But it’s not the first time Cats has been filmed: In 1998, a version of Cats staged specifically for direct-to-video release was directed by David Mallet, who directed many of David Bowie and Queen’s music videos. The new live-action Cats movie is directed by Tom Hooper, best known for directing The King’s Speech and Les Misérables. Fun fact: Webber had to remortgage his house to secure the funds! The struggle was apparently worth it, as Cats won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical. It’s also entirely sung-through, and much of the story is conveyed through dance.Ĭats debuted in 1981 on the West End. Because of the poetic source material, the musical doesn’t have a strong, shall we say, plot. Webber had been a fan of the book as a child, and in the 1970s he began setting the poems to music. These poems tell the stories of typical cat characters, such as “cat that breaks all your shit,” and “cat that gets really hyper at night.” ![]() It lifts most of its lyrics from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, a 1939 book of poems by T.S. The original Broadway musical, which clocks in around two hours and 20 minutes (whew!), was created by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Here’s everything we know about the “definitely not CGI” Cats film that will hit theaters this year. ![]() If you were not so lucky as to own a copy of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical growing up, the trailers for the movie may be impossible to understand. But the new Universal film starring Taylor Swift and Idris Elba will be much different than the VHS version I inexplicably owned as a child. The Broadway musical Cats has once again been filmed for our entertainment. ![]()
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