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here are my thoughts, headcanons, about the human owners in the Cats universe. i have cats 2019 in mind with all of this, but a lot of this could easily apply to the stage musical âverses, if youâre so inclined. i havenât thought about them in Great Detail but i have pictured a lot of these cats at home, so iâve pictured their humans a little. oh side note: when i imagine humans in this universe, i operate on lady and the tramp logic where you cannae properly see them. like, from the neck down at the highest. maintaining the cats themselves as the focal characters. so yeah here are the few hcs i have about people who in my mind literally have no faces or names
munkustrap: iâve considered the idea that his family is rich but it turns out he lives in a flat thats directly next to a junkyard. i think theyâre middle class, maybe even upper middle class, because itâs not cheap to live so close to trafalgar square (that and a lot of these cats live close to each other and we see other catâs homes that are well off). anyways, theyâre a generic late 1930s family. in an idyllic way, really. iâve based them off the human family in lady and the tramp. munkustrap being our lady. so thereâs a husband, a wife and a baby. and thereâs also an aunt who takes care of munku when the family is away on holiday. i gave them a baby to add even more to munkuâs Paternal Instincts. theyâre pleasant people and they treat munkustrap well. the lady of the household brushes him. munku has a bed in the lounge/kitchen area but sometimes they let him sleep on the foot of the bed. munku wants caviar like itâs crack so i have to assume heâs tasted it at least once. this would imply very indulgent owners. or they might have dropped some at a party, who knows. theyâre not strict with munku (he can go where he wants to, get given Human Food, sleep on Human Beds) but this never led to him being spoilt because he respects his family a lot and doesnât take advantage of their kindness (eg. many cats are known to push things off tables. munkustrap would never) oh also the baby has pulled on munkuâs tail once but he doesnât hold it against her
mr. mistoffelees: we can actually glean some things about his family from his song and the behind the scenes. first of all, laurie davidson says misto is owned by a magician, who uses misto as a helper during magic tricks. that is to say, he pulls misto out of his hat. this is delightful and i hold to this concept too. from his song we know at least two things: one lyric says âthe familyâ and thats plural so thereâs more than just a magician, who i imagine is a guy, by the way. so he gets a wife. i donât see them having kids. the other thing we know from his song is that misto sleeps by the fire..... though sometimes he is on the roof, making a ruckus, apparently. mistoâs owners are sometimes annoyed but overall fond of their kitties antics. since misto emulates his ownerâs magic-ness, it stands to reason that this guy is a guy worthy of being emulated. therefore: decent and nice. concept: misto sees his owner doing magic tricks and being lovey dovey with his wife and is basically like âgod i wish that was meâ. i also imagine they give misto a decent amount of toys, like a jingly mouse, a ball of yarn, etc. this was partially an attempt to get misto to stop playing with forks and the man of the houseâs magician doodads... it didnât wooork~ yes, im still thinking of 2019 misto, just because heâs anxious, doesnât mean he canât be a silly little scamp too. heâs gotta practice his magic!
rum tum tugger: his owner is a sweet lady who adores her kitty so very much and loads him with praise. basically sheâs largely responsible for tuggerâs,,, High Self Esteem. she talks to him in baby talk a lot. sheâs a cat enthusiast and has even entered tugger in some pet shows. sheâs good natured enough but her house smells funny. she spoils tugger and will allow him to behave however way he pleases. according to tuggerâs song, she sews. he jumps on her lap, throwing her off her task, and she sighs fondly and says âoh, what am i going to do with you?â. nothing. because she wuvs her pwecious widdle kitty. basically, tugger owns her
victoria: she was given to a little girl as a christmas present and what we see at the start of the movie is her being chucked away because the girl and the parents got bored of her once she reached maturity. so basically theyâre fickle bastards who werenât ready for cat ownership
mungojerrie & rumpleteazer: ohhhh boy, so i said tugger was spoilt but these two. these two! their owners are rich. the details of this family are unclear in my head but at the very least theres a middle aged couple who hate the way these cats behave but choose to tolerate it, and a younger stupid woman who ignores their shenanigans and says âthey donât know what theyâre doingâ (said whilst they grin mischievously). mungo and rumpleâs behaviour is put up with because theyâre show cats who are worth a lot of money. once in a while theyâll do a show and then the rest of the time these two are Chaos. as i said, their family is the one iâm least clear about, like how many people live here, how everybody is related, but im picturing a somewhat large rich family (like 3 generations in one house and theres a few bratty kids about) and theyâre not very nice people. theyâre snobby and unkind. any goodness the chaos twins have was given to them by the other jellicle cats, not their owners. oh this household also employs several maids, who have to put up with so much shit, lord
skimbleshanks: skimble has no one Owner in a traditional sense, he is beloved by the people who work at the local railway station. the drivers, the guards, the station master, the station masterâs daughters who are 6 and 8. skimble does and doesnât belong to all of these people. the train people adore skimble and literally will not start the train without him, which is canon. i picture the driver as being really burly, to juxtapose how cooey he gets over this orange kitty. they let him roam the train as he pleases, and honk the train horn, drink scotch and they always give him Human Food. and in return skimble is infallibly loyal and has amazing work ethic. i mean, considering heâs a cat... anyways everybody loves skimbleshanks
and for the sake of the story working, these owners are either ignorant that their cats are getting out or letting them free roam. twas a different time
#cats 2019#a lot of this turns into hcs about the cats themselves and thats fine#my hc for bustopher and maitre d's owner is so brief it didn't deserve a bullet point:#a stupid rich tory who doesn't know where his cats are 90% of the time#i ended with skimbleshanks because i wanted a nice one on the bottom#we see that jennyanydots is a house cat but i have no thoughts about her owners#oh except that they should clean their fucking house. that is way too many cockroaches#munkustrap is the cat i've Most pictured at home#like i honestly think i could recreate his flat's kitchen/living area in sims if i wanted to
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Michael in the Mainstream: Cats
Cats is perhaps Andrew Lloyd Webberâs most infamous works, and is a musical youâre either going to love or hate. Itâs sort of a plotless parade of actors in wild cat makeup prancing about the stage and singing goofy songs inspired from old T.S. Eliot poems and just in general is absolutely weird. This, probably, is why I love it; itâs just a fun, campy, colorful flight of fancy where I can enjoy some nice singing and choreography and not need to think too hard about the plot because, really, there is none, and itâs part of the run. The 1998 video version of the musical in particular is delightful. Fun characters like Rum Tum Tugger and Mr. Mistoffelees are brought to glorious life and get the best songs in the show, and the other cats donât slouch either, Â especially considering Old Deuteronomy is Ken âOogie Boogieâ Page. Itâs just a fun little video that makes it easy to see why people love this silly little show even to this day, and itâs the reason I now count myself among the fans of the musical.
You know what wonât make you a fan? The 2019 theatrical film.
This film is a travesty. It is an affront before the eyes of God. It is the cinematic equivalent of a public execution. Really, youâd eat up any hyperbolic statement I put here, but the truth of the matter is the film is just an excessively mediocre adaptation that falls flat on its face because the director just didnât give a damn. This is the dude who made Les Mis, and he thought he could take a more grounded approach with Cats of all things as well. Between that stroke of brilliance and his shoddy, draconian treatment of the animators, I canât say Iâd feel particularly bad to see Tom Hooperâs career crash and burn thanks to this.
Oh, wait? Did you want me to pick on the animation? Oh sure, itâs bad. The cats look more like monkeys and the mice and roaches look abysmal, but what the hell did anyone expect when the animators were forced to rush everything and were crunching up to the day of the filmâs release?! Those conditions are inhuman! Itâs lucky the movie is even remotely watchable as it is!
If you really want me to pick on something, Iâll pick on the cast. Theyâre not all bad, of course â Jennifer Hudson is pretty solid as Grizabella, Taylor Swift is honestly pretty good as Bombalurina, Idris Elba is clearly having a ball as Macavity, and Steven McRae and Sir Ian McKellan manage to steal the show for one scene each as Skimbleshanks and Gus, respectively. But unfortunately, the ones that do suck manage to suck extra hard. The standout in how absolutely awful is, unsurprisingly, Rebel Wilson as Jennyanydots. Letâs ignore for a fact sheâs to blame for the nightmarish scene with the roaches and mice. Letâs even set aside how absolutely awful Wilson is as an actress. They took a fun little character like Jennyanydots and turned her into a rude, obnoxious waste of space who is relentlessly unfunny. This is really a running theme with all the worst cats; they manage to take whatâs fun and joyful in the stage musical and turn it into something miserable and tacky.
Bustopher Jones fares pretty poorly. A guy who was already a whimsical fat joke is now turned into a relentless barrage of nonstop ones and is unfortunately portrayed by James Corden. The fun, swaggering rockstar that is Rum Tum Tugger gets portrayed by Jason Derulo mumbling his way through everything, meaning even with his musician swagger itâs not enough to redeem his take on RTT. But worst of all is what the movie does to the magical Mr. Mistoffelees. They took a character who in the show was a glorious, glittery, campy stage magician who reveled in his magical skills (âPRESTO!â) and who danced and zapped his way through the number in the 1998 stage show and turned him into a meek, timid little brat who looks like heâd be scared of his own shadow and who struggles with even the most basic of tricks. He looks like a Panic! At the Disco reject more than he looks like the magical cat who charmed me in the video of the 1998 musical version.
The fact that Hooper tried to shoehorn a plot into this is just⌠incredible. Thereâs the barest attempt made to string together the musical numbers with Victoria as sort of our audience surrogate and Macavity given a tiny bit more to do, but the end result eaves the plot even less comprehensible than before and makes everything in the movie feel awkward and contrived⌠which it already feels because everyone looks like a freakish hairball. The whole thing just gives off the sense it wasnât made by anyone with a love or passion for the stage musical, and was instead churned out as a bitter, cynical product.
Frankly, I was hoping to like this far more than I did. Yeah, Iâd definitely say this is so bad itâs good, but I canât really muster up the usual enthusiasm since I saw the 1998 version and fell in love with it. I know what this movie could have been, I know how its characters should be, and it hurts to see most of them failing to live up to its potential. Yeah, a lot of the music is still good and there are fun characters here and there, but it just makes me sadder when the energy that Gus or Skimbleshanks bring to the film isnât present throughout.
The brief moments that are good are starkly punctuated by the numerous moments where the film fails, and it really didnât have to be this way. Giving the actors better costumes, the animators more time and breathing room, actually properly scaling the sets, paying any attention to detail at all, and maybe giving a damn about the musical they were adapting could have saved this film, but as it stands, this movie doesnât really rise above a so bad itâs good curiosity, an absolutely astounding trainwreck.
Is this one of the worst movies of all time? I donât think so. Itâs sitting in the Bottom 100 on IMDB and even not liking it this film is still nowhere near as bad as something like, say, Artemis Fowl or The Love Guru. At its worst, itâs a disappointing mess, and at itâs best, itâs worth a cheap laugh or two. If you want to sate your curiosity, by all means, but just keep in mind what curiosity did to cats the last time.
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(Preface: this is a really long post as I typed it as I was watching the movie so this is unedited, pure thoughts as I was watching this movie.)
I just started watching the new Cats movie and Iâm already having issues with whatâs going on
Why did Munk spider man his way down a wall
Whatâs wrong with Misto
Why donât they just crawl on their knees Jesus Christ if they werenât on their toes it would be better
âAre you mean like a minxâ thatâs not in pitch
ThatS NOT HOW JUMPING WORKS
The choreography is going good though- I knew it would. Iâve worked with that choreographer before.
WHY IS THIS NOW A POP REMIX
I have so many questions
Music is too fast. Tempos are everywhere.
Singing isnât too bad. I can understand the words better.
Munk is a little too feminine for my taste at the moment but I like his design.
ROMANTICAL CATS (heart hands) IS THE MOST ON BRAND MISTO THING YET
Macavity speaking and singing his own song is disgusting
WHY DO THEY HAVE HUMAN TOES AND FINGERS
Why is everyone bullying Misto
AND HUMAN NOSES
Munk thereâs a rhythm to the Naming of Cats. You canât go off it whole everyone else is on it.
You guys canât keep a tempo can you
HIS name. HIS.
Munk thatâs a little sexual. NO YOU ARE WITH DEMETER STOP
stop cutting the scene up. Just let them dance.
AH REFERENCE TO ORIGINAL CHOREO. I SAW THAT
Misto is on brand except heâs not Misto yet storytellers
Also Iâm liking the idea that Victoria is new to everything and the plot is theyâre introducing her to the wild and the whole heaviside layer thing
THATS NOT THE MELODY MUNK STOP
they have human eyebrows too what
Munk that note is too high for you
Is Jenny twerking excuse me
JennY IS SUPPOSED TO BE MOTHERLY STOP THAT
thatâs also not the melody
The human mice are going to cause nightmares
Wait is Jenny lusting after Munk
Why does he actually look interested
Munk do you have an English accent or American. Please decide.
Jenny thatâs not the right notes
HUMAN ROACHES NO
WHY DO THEH HAVE HUMAN FACES
The skiN UNZIPPED OH NO
no one needed that undershot of cockroach crotches
Mm meow
huh what Tugger what was that
Okay Derulo is not bad at all
Iâm missing the Tugoffolees banter though
This Tugger is a little gayer than the original
THE NEUTER JOKE OH MY GOD
Tugger is reminding me of Dr. Frank N Furter from Rocky Horror Picture Show
Why does he have an English accent though
VictoriaaaaAAAAA? (The TOES)
Jennyâs humor is eh. Donât see the reason of putting that in.
The ending is pure Tugger though
Not a bad rendition
Grizz isnât as rough as I imagined her looking
Oh her VOICE
HER VOICE HITS HARD
Who is this cat singing about Grizz (the first) her voice was nice
NO. WHY THE SHORTNESS ON âthatâ
Munk why did you grab that queenâs head
Edward Hyde is that you?
Jenny stop trying to be the comedy relief youâre too awful at it
Bustopher please STOP singing your own song
PLEASE KIDNAP HER IDRIS ELBA
THANK YOU
I wish they spent more time dancing since thatâs really the point of the show and the draw to it.
Bustopher wearing heels? Iâm for it. Gay legend.
âThanks Tuggerâ stop this whole sequence please
Bustopher is supposed to be a very prim and proper cat. What happened to him
Still canât get over Idris Elba being in this
THATS NOT THE MELODY OF MUNGOJERRIE AND RUMPLETEAZER
What have thEY DONE TO THE MELODY GOOD GOD
AND THE RHYTHM THEY DESTROYED THE SONG
Oh. Hey thatâs pretty neat choreo though
âI bought that for her myselfâ âheyâ âwhat?â
My brain is rebelling because itâs not right at all in anything I remember
Did Misto just pull a whole femur from his hat
STOP THAT. MISTO LOOKS LIKE A CLOSETED TWINK STUCK IN A STRAIGHT RELATIONSHIP
is he wearing eyeliner
GROWLTIGER IS BACK
I donât actually know his song so this is new to me
Jenny and Bustopher being comedic relief hurts because theyâre not funny
Munk âwhere have you been?!â Is there a love triangle happening. What happened to Demeter
Also his voice in Deuteronomy is actually really nice
âSits in the suuunâ that was beautiful oh god
Deut looks more like how I imagined Grizz would look
IS THAT DAME JUDI DENCH
I bet she regrets ever saying yes after this.
What cat is randomly wearing a crow skull around their neck. Is that a witchâs cat
JUDI DENCH CANâT YOU ACTUALLY SING? WHY ARE YOU STRUGGLING
Why are you singing Munkâs line
Oh the Jellicle ball is next letâs go Andy show me that awesome choreo
Asparagus are you okay
Tempo doesnât exist in this movie does it
Neither does rhythm or time keeping
IS THAT MY BOY SKIMBLESHANKS
Twirly boy Munk
Munk really just wants to be topped doesnât he
WhAT WAS THAT TWITCHING AND THE PANTING
Andy I love you man but the traditional and classic choreo wouldâve worked just as fine
Skimble and Munk being gay
what happened to Plato and why is there something going on with Misto
TUGGER YOU HAD A MOMENT YOU COULD HAVE INTERRUPTED
Ah okay I understand why that happened. No mating dance or slumber party
Cats wearing shoes disgusts me more than the toes
POINTE WITHOUT POINTE SHOESSSS GROSS
honestly? Jellicle ball is disappointing. They just cut the ten minutes of amazing dancing down to like four.
I donât like the heavy breathing. Thatâs not something that was ever necessary.
Okay, the end worked okay with the big synchronized dances.
Iâm ready for this Memory rendition. Already getting chills.
Those are very human hands
Oh keep with the rhythm I beg of you
Ooh altered verse
Wait thatâs jennifer Hudson???
Oh we just removed a whole verse, bridge, and chorus didnât we.
Sweet moment? See I like Vic reaching for Grizz
Vic gets a song??? Ooh intrigued
I like her voice
Iâm going to cry this song is sad and Iâm glad she gets a story
Though itâs kind of âyou think your life is hard? Mineâs worseâ feeling after Memory
Awww Iâm gonna cry what a sweetheart what a lovely dear protect her
Ugh meaning of happiness. I hate this song no matter who sings it.
Wait what happened to Rumpus Cat song :( the battle of the pekes and the pollicles
What do you mean youâre about to make the choice
We still have Gusâs song, Mistoâs song, and Skimbleâs song.
They got Ian McKellen to do this?? How much was he paid
âCross pawsâ no stop
Why is Gus singing his own song please donât
Munkâs face bugs me for some reason
His song always makes me cry for some reason but this is kind of goofy and cute and I love it
Misto in the background is just strange for me
Is he forgetting the words sometimes and mumbling to fill in because goodness
Mistoâs so eager to please what a bottom
âMacavityyyâ I hate it
Munk starting Skimbleâs song has the same energy as Tugger doing Mistoâs songs
Iâm glad theyâve kept this song the same as it was
Skimble is SO gay oh my god what a classic twink
Oooh I like this addition of the train getting started via tap
Iâm actually really liking this rendition and the tap dancing on the the rails
Though the tap continuing when no one is tapping or the rhythm being wrong is uh not good
Such an iconic song and I love the changes in scene
Oh skimble that note was not good
WAIT OKAY THAT WAS MACAVITYâS DOING WITH THE LEVITATION
Oh hi Taylor Swift
Use more breath. Stop doing the pop voice thing. Stop it.
Is Bombi a drug dealer
MISTO BEING TWEAKED ON DRUGS IS THE FUNNIEST GODDAMN THING IVE EVER SEEN IN THIS LIFE
I can say though that what theyâve done to the song is exactly the vibes it needed. Sultry and pushing the boundaries.
Sad thereâs not a Demeter.
SORRY MUNK WHAT WAS THAT
I actually rewinded to see what happened there with the martini glass
OKAY MAN NEEDS TO BE TOPPED OH MY GOD
âGreen house glass is brokenâ was changed and that makes me sad
This was a good song for Taylor to show off her vocal prowess but she just didnât
Why is Macavity naked
Why is he singing his own damn song
PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON
Munk youâre still tweaking out a little
Oh hereâs the sleeping orgy
Whatâs with this drama now with the choice thing
We donât have Munkâs fight with Macavity. Robbed
VICTORIA YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE TO GET MISTO OUT THERE. IT HAS TO BE TUGGER
If there are no 23 spins, Iâll throw my phone
Munk thatâs gay and Iâm here for it. Encourage your twink Misto
âPlease donât make me do thisâ has phantom vibes
Munk that was a lusty look
Whereâs the âooh ahsâ
This is weird without Tugger singing it and being an ego for Misto
Tugger come on. Please save this number.
Victoria I swear to god I will beat you
Why do they have one person on the melody in this. And Derulo going through the stratosphere
WHERE IS THE DANCING >:(
That trombone is playing absolutely nothing in the music at all
DONâT YOU DARE KISS HER
oh hereâs the fight music
WHY DID WE UNZIP SKIN AGAIN
oh they used the fight music for the escaping of cats
How much longer is there
Oh thereâs the daylight reprise thing
I want to die
To the sun, Vic. To the sun.
Munk, Tugger, be respectful. Thatâs your mother.
Wait that doesnât work in this universe because Deut is female.
Oh they gave the Asian cat patterns that resemble tiger stripes hmmmm
Why couldnât they have just filmed an actual stage version and turned that out
Oh that âsmile at the old daysâ was god awful
How much longer oh god
Iâm tired man. I wasted 6 bucks on this
Victoria just stealing Jemimaâs parts
âLike a flowER as the dawn is breakingâ
Okay here it is
OH COME THROUGH QUEEN. WHOLE FILM IS WORTH THIS CLIMAX
Okay so there are some cats wearing clothes and others not. What are the rules for this universe. Are they naked or are they not.
I have not shed a single tear. Usually I have by now from this show. Not a single tear.
Deut X Grizz is still my favorite ship
Is that the intro to Til I Hear You Sing that I hear. Those F to Gm chords Lloyd Webber loves.
Judi Dench stop trying to sing for the love of god.
Ah yes show off that beautiful ballet dancer that plays Vic
Aww Munk bowing to Grizz
Oh so itâs a chandelier this time and not a tire
Whereâd Macavity and Bombi go
Oh there he is. What a child. Hate that.
BUSTOPHER CONFIRMED A GAY ICON
Deut being a proud mother to Munk is cute with the hands on the shoulder
Why are we reprising the first song
Also Air balloon.
WHY ARE YOU STARING AT ME JUDI DENCH
why are they all staring so intently at her too wait
Munk looks like someone is touching him inappropriately this whole scene.
Munk and Misto looking at each other
MUNK STOPPPP JESUS CHRIST DO YOU NEED TO BE REMOVED FROM THE SITUATION
The choreography doesnât even match the beat of the song. Huh???
Misto youâre gay stop
Munk and Misto looking at each other and the shy glances away
So Grizz gets hot air balloned to death is that what Iâm seeing
Oh itâs over okay
I want to cry.
Itâs not as bad as I heard. Once you got used to the way things looked and just let things happen and say it might as well happen, it became a bit more enjoyable.
Itâs still god awful though and letâs pray the furries never get ahold of it.
#katetalks#ren live blogs#shitpost#cats#cats 2019#cats the musical#im so sorrh for sich a long post but thoughts man thoughts
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as a classic cats fan what did you think of the 2019 movie?
FOREWARD: i have full respect to those who enjoyed CATS 2019 and show their support and engage in that part of the fandom. rock on. very truly, honestly, sincerely, i hope you have a blast and create and share and have the best of times. welcome to the fandom, itâs great to have you here; thank you for joining us and i really, really do mean that from the bottom of my heart and soul. it really makes me happy that CATS has become something good for you like it is, and has been, for so many of us. iâm ecstatic to see the fandom expanding and iâm so very serious about that.
unfortunately this is the time to jump ship if you donât want to hear any more complaints about it. thank you and ilu all and once again, welcome to the fold, i love that youâre joining us and yâall being here honey butters my toast xoxo
there was a 2019 movie?
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from the very first sneeze of an idea of doing a CATS movie went around being speculated in what.. 2012?? i have been against it because i knew it wouldnât be done right. what i really wanted, really hoped for, what the fandom very honestly deserves and STILL does to this day and beyond is another honest, no dances cut, full on professionally shot video of the stage production again.
iâm still putting my hand to the cold glass and pulling my thin shawl around my shoulders as i gaze past the rain blurring the dreary world outside and sighing a tremendous, weary sigh because Hamilton is getting a full professionally-shot stage movie...... and CATS likely wonât ever.. and how cruel that is.
(not hatin on Hamilton, btw; im just old and bitter LOL i have zero hard feelings towards Hamilton and honestly good for them for getting that done, they deserve it)
so...... listen. i appreciate the thought and commitment to making a CATS movie. i think the biggest thing that busted my balls about it was the use and execution of the CGI cat people. ofc this is a big thing in a lot of opinions. but iâve always been sitting here like.......Â
there are... decades of fanart. decades of productions and photos and costume design. but the fan. art. did anyone go in and look at it? artists have been drawing these characters a wide variety of ways, but when it boils down to the anthropomorphic take on it, i thought it was pretty damn clear how good it could look. i feel like they should have been diggin in the CATS art trenches all this time, all these years, and really taken all these artistic interpretations very seriously to heart.Â
it felt like a slap in the face when they overhauled nearly everyoneâs design/look to the point where i donât even know who iâm looking at. and listen, iâm here for redesigns, donât get me wrong. i dug Jason Deruloâs Tugger design. i dug Idris Elbaâs Macavity base idea because he was made a shorthair and clearly all source material says otherwise? and whereâs the ginger, mate??Â
(NOTE: in the bâway revival the new Macavity costume is easily 99% black in contrast to the original design in which the costume was 95% red and orange. stark difference. âMacavityâs a ginger catâ contradicts the revival costume a bit since, again, itâs largely black. so in its defense, the costumeâs red/orange accents are well placed and the black pays more tribute to the âvery tall and thinâ aspect heâs supposed to have. (the old costume was wild and hairy, it kinda puffed him out a bit, esp with the much fuller and taller wig.) the revival wig is more on par with main wigs, and it has that coppery color, the makeup is simplistic (as it needs to be added on to Plato) and the color use FOR base Plato brings out the red and etc etc etc. i like the revival costume; it didnât go overboard on the reds and oranges, it was sleek and powerful, and oh my god youâve got fingergless gloves with fucking fringe there is a MANE wiht FRINGE who designed that bc i gotta kiss em and offer a piece of my heart and soul)
everything felt muddled, disorganized, foreign, and god why did we do Jennyanydots that why please why are the cockroaches people please are you all ok in production? blink twice if you need help
oh yeah and the fat jokes. i think we were supposed to be getting over that but ok
very interesting thing with Macavity kidnapping the potentials. kinda dug that. fuck it up, Skimbleshanks
and speaking of fuckin Skimbleshanks you have no idea how much of my shit i lost when he started the tap number. i was over the MOON. GOOD shit, FUCK yeah, GO OFF and it was brilliant, absolutely beautiful
ALSO when i heard Judi Dench was gonna be in it i was really hopeful sheâd finally play Grizabella. what a fucking treat that wouldâve been. she was set to debut the role in the West End, then she tore her Achilles, so Elaine Page replaced her and the rest was history. iâve really wanted to hear/see her Grizabella. :(
(and briefly on the topic of Grizabella iâm kinda not here for the trend of younger actresses in the role just hhhhhhhh kinda takes away and misplaces her whole vibe and story imo)
i just.. i didnât understand some of the plot changes like how Macavity was up in everyoneâs bs tryna force himself up to the Heavyside Layer, it was silly, and yeah i shouldnât take CATS so seriously even with the longtime fan background butÂ
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there were a lot of super questionable decisions across the board and all that has already been gone over by so many people a dozen billion times. on one hand, iâm glad CATS got some exposure. on the other, :( not like this
however, on a very good note (other than skimbleshanks bless him): let me tell you how EXCITED i was that they used the original Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer arrangement. what a fucking pleasant surprise. HELL yeah. i LOVE that arrangement and iâm tickled to pieces that it was chosen. good shit. good shit.
tbh as Serious and Bruh Calm Down this might all sound, itâs honestly no skin off my teeth. itâs a frustration, sure. iâm so very tired. iâm disappointed. i didnât have any specific expectations about it, just a lot of hopes. maybe too many hopes.
being a longtime CATS fan i know as well or even better than other people what a fucking dumpster fire the show is LMAO itâs wild and itâs ridiculous and god it doesnât make any sense, it has a plot and it has no plot and everything about it is so horny and itâs the greatest fucking thing to ever happen to me
i obviously have a lot of feelings and history with CATS, and 2019 did not âruinâ anything for me, it didnât âtaintâ anything about it, despite everything iâve complained about i donât consider myself a purist. (ok. except about the revival choreography. some things are more sacred than the vatican.)
i donât dig 2019 as a whole. i donât want to completely disregard it. there are bits and pieces i did like and that i can appreciate. i wish it wasnât done that way. i just wish we had gotten a true blue professionally shot, no dances cut, honest portrayal of the stage production.Â
but hey it is what it is. at the bottom of it all iâm just glad there are new people coming in and taking a look around. itâs nice to see a resurgence of the fandom. it feels really good to see more people here and loving it. i missed CATS and the CATS community. it feels so good to be home.
#ches writes#ches writes stuff#cats musical#cats the musical#anti cats 2019#is that the tag? god i feel like such a dick tagging that lmfao#if there's another tag i need to add lmk pls#in which i barf words and do mostly complaining but also wholesome#frnkfucker69
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