TTFeb: C A T S
Feb. 22nd, 2022 10:44![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superborbhalfcactus prompted: CATS (your fav colorings/encounters/behaviors/whatever AND fav cat-related media, whether the cat is the central character or not). Would also like to know about how you got into Cats (musical) 👀 Who was your fav cat, what was your fav song I am into Cats (musical) because my mom always had the cast recording in the car! Her ringtone is still Memory. STIFF COMPETITION for favorite cat or song!!! I cannot decide...
1. When I was little, after I woke up, I'd sit at the top of the stairs. (Hilariously, my little brother did that too, despite being enough younger than me that he couldn't have learned the behavior from me.) So my grandpa would call me a gumbie cat, after the line in The Old Gumbie Cat, "She sits and sits and sits and sits." I was surprised to learn as an adult that gumbie cat is not, in fact, well known slang hahahaha.
2. Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer have such a good song and they're so fun haha. I think they were my favorite as a kid because their song is bouncier?
3. Mr. Mistoffelees when the song is sung by Rum Tum Tugger is, of course, classic and amazingly shippy. Yes, do sing about how magical Mr. Mistoffelees is some more, after he describes you as a terrible bore. Excellent.
I am still sad my mom didn't bring me with her to see the Broadway revival, but I /did/ see it during a China tour and it was great. I love that the costuming goes all in on the makeup. I love the dance and acrobatic elements! It's probably still my favorite musical.
In non-musical cats, after reading Diane Duane's Feline Wizards trilogy, I was seized with the strongest desire to be able to lick my own nose. The cats in her books just kept licking their noses! What would that be like... The first book is the strongest, IIRC, but generally not her best works. The alienness of being from the PoV of a cat and the cat behaviors were well done though!
In ficly cats, I think it's very funny that
lazulisong keeps turning characters into cats-- full series of all of them here.(
halfcactus, now that I'm thinking about it, Chi's Sweet Home reminds me a bit of Legend of Luo Xiaohei-- it's also a bunch of very short episodes about a cat being adopted into a family.)In real cats, solid gray cats have usurped calico cats as my favorite. They're so dignified looking! Also, there's a friendly tiny gray cat in my neighborhood that'll come when you call! But I think it doesn't spend as much time twining around your legs after you don't feed it enough times ^^;
I like when cats try to sit in drawn boxes and when they put their paws over their faces! And fluffy cat bellies, of course.
Cats! So good!
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Date: 2022-02-22 16:40 (UTC)Here is my solid gray cat, with kitty tummy. Very dignified.
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Date: 2022-02-22 23:35 (UTC)Yes, do sing about how magical Mr. Mistoffelees is some more, after he describes you as a terrible bore.
😂💯🙌
I got to see a Cats production once but I remember being underwhelmed, but not quite why. It might not have been one of the big tours though (our tickets were a gift, and there didn’t seem to be much of an audience. I think some of them walked out when they realized that it was, well, a whole musical of people dancing in cat costumes). :( Maybe it was just that I was in the back row 😂
I should watch Chi’s Sweet Home to fill the void…
LOL I feel that there should be some sort of timeline for your cat rankings. My favorite cat is from the one time I went to our neighborhood climbing gym and an extremely affectionate kitty suddenly walked into the gym like he owned it then started twining around and rubbing his body on my legs, asking for pets, and then falling asleep comfortably under a chair ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ I hope he’s still around ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Btw I thought you should see this Pallas’s cat clip if you haven’t seen it yet! I can’t stop thinking about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYLz1CjRf0
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Date: 2022-02-23 02:52 (UTC)Cats is probably one of the musicals where a crowded theater makes the most difference... The energy needs to be there, or it's not fun maybe?
omg cats q_q cute
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Date: 2022-02-23 05:39 (UTC)I feel that Cats is just so technically demanding (you need a balance of strong singers and strong dancers of different styles, and the directorship to not any of the weaknesses show) AND that if another production comes this way, I should get my own tickets for a closer view and less distracting seatmates. XD The problem is also that people come in watching Cats knowing that Memory is in it, but not really expecting... the rest of Cats. ^^; I suppose with the recent movie this might not be as much of a problem now, but our theater scene is still so small that we don't get a lot of big Broadway/West End productions... and then the pandemic happened. :'(
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Date: 2022-02-23 23:16 (UTC)I think that is really the best part of Cats-- how there's both elements of song and dance!! And incorporating them together in a way that works.
Truly, that was the problem with people going to see Cats the movie too.
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Date: 2022-02-23 02:51 (UTC)Agree on all points! I really love Rhiow and Urruah as characters, they're amazing. I think the worldbuilding gets more interesting than the actual plots.
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Date: 2022-02-23 02:54 (UTC)