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There's an article on the closing of Cats and two Broadway
pictures of the cast and one of Grizabella (thanks, Bomby The Red
Cat!).
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In at least two issues of Cat Fancy magazine, they have had stuff
about Cats. One was the September 2000 issue, they were talking about
the closing of the Broadway production. Another time they had two
Cats puzzles, a word search and something where they scrambled the
letters of Cats names (thanks, Kalliroscope!).
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Mevima has typed up the article! Read it
here.
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This is an Australian magazine. There was a picture and interview of
Richard O'Brien (Autralian Rum Tum Tugger). The section was called
"Cleo's 50 Hottest Bachelors of 1999/2000" (thanks, Claire!).
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Actually, this is a catalog. It's a CD collection called Romantic
Strings which includes "Memory". In this catalog, it's item number
is B-30330-679353.
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They feature a pullout timeline which has a short caption about
Cats on it along with a small picture of Demeter and
Bombalurina (thanks, Lixue!)
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There is a great article on Gillian Lynne and her choreography for
Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, and more. There's so
much cool info including her opinion of the new Cats video and
new choreography (thanks, Jennikous!).
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They have a picture of Meg Gillentine (former Broadway Cassandra),
with the caption "Meg Gillentine, a Cats veteran, is now on tour with
Fosse." It is on page 68. On page 70, she gives audition tips. Also,
in a listing of summer jobs for dancers, it shows a picture from
Hershey Park's musical review, the Cats part (thanks,
Fleetpaw!).
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On page 68, there is a picture of Caitlin Carter in Swing!, and you
can just barely see Michael Gruber's head in the background. There is
also a direct reference to 'Cats' on page 88. In the top, right
corner is a picture of Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer, as portrayed by
Billy Johnstone and Dana Solimando. Billy is the current Coricopat.
Dana gives a wonderful description of Teazer (thanks, SmudgeKat!).
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It has an article about Rachelle Rak who once performed in the B'Way
CATS as Bombalurina, probably as an understudy. It tells about how
she saw CATS when she was 14 and wanted to perform in it and
eventually soon after did, including her saying how a day would be
like working in it. On page 38, there's a pic of her in her dressing
room (I think) in her Bombalurina "cat suit." I'm not sure the year
she performed but behind her in the pic is a cast board with a few
names: "Susan Powers, Angel Caban, Carol Dilley, Nina Henessey,
Alaine Kashian, Maria Jo Ralabate, Amy Splitt, Heidi Stallings, Sally
Ann Swarm, and Larissa Thurston. It also says that when she sat
watching the final performance of CATS on September 10, 2000, she
couldn't help but think: "This is the show that changed my life."
Thanks, Mista!
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This is a photo of Lindsey Wise playing Jemima in London (thanks,
Steve!). Click for a
thumbnail [116K -
recommended for most computers] or the entire image [at 1.14MB, I recommend having a cable
modem (or higher) or a lot of patience].
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I found an article which shows Rosemarie Ford winning the Miss
Dance Great Britain contest in front of an audience of two-thousand,
aged 17. Her surname at the time was Poundford (thanks, Steve!).
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They have a small column called "Last Laugh," and it was titled "If
Cats Performed CATS." There was a small paragraph about the Broadway
closing on June 25 and the general history. They then said that it
would be fun if real cats performed CATS. Suggestions included:
___________o The antagonist in the show
would be a giant vacuum cleaner.
___________o Part of the performance
would include the cast climbing and shredding the theater curtains.
___________o Most of the final act would
consist of the cast just sitting and staring blankly at the audience
(thanks, Alegria!).
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They do a recap of the year, and it includes "End of the Feline" and
a small paragraph about Cats (thanks, Zia!).
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There is a picture you could probably get the issue at a library
for. Thanks, Hailey!
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There is an article about the new musical called "The Producers".
Along with it is a table comparing "The Producers" to four other
musicals in advance sales at opening and the top ticket prices. Cats is one of the four, and a small picture of Jennyanydots
in her Gumbie coat is beside the table. By the way, CATS had $6.2
million in advance sales at opening and $40 as the top ticket price
(thanks, Rumplestella!).
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I was reading through the double issue and found a section with short
summarys and ratings of the last ten years. The title of the section
was "So Easy to Leave Me All Alone With the Memories" (thanks,
Rhysa!).
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View this article here.
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There was an article about Cats. I typed it up and scanned one
of the pictures
(here, of Marlene Danielle). Thanks, Birana!
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There is a certain Cats article in a certain issue: "After
five incredible years at NICKELODEON MAGAZINE, associate art director
Nancy Leonard has moved on. We are sad to see her go. Also ending its
run is Cats, a musical that has played in our neighborhood
since 1982. We wonder if the show's feline cast will team up with
Nancy for a big, give-my-regards-to-Broadway bash." Thanks,
Mistoffeless!
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In some magazine (I forgot which one, but it was a magazine published
by PBS), there was a comic strip in which the characters were putting
on a play. The play was "DOGS" and they were all dressed up like
canines (animals, not teeth). I also remember two characters standing
on a huge doggie biscuit that was lifting into the air (thanks,
Ozzie!).
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Click on the link above to view article and photo (thanks,
Pawlinger!). Text version of article can be found
here.
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I would like to add an article on the closing of Cats. It has
pictures of Grizabella, Jellylorum, Gus/Asparugus, Sillabub, and
Tumblebrutus (thanks, R.J.!).
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View the image here.
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The basic story is about a little boy called (not named) Patreascu,
who was found at a Rumanian orphanage by a brittish woman. Due to
serious neglect and illness he is highly disabled, can hardly move,
and doesn't talk at all. The woman, Beverly, arranges for him to come
to England, where he goes through major surgery, slowly starts to
recover, and is finally adopted by Beverly and her husband. Now to
the slightly shortened translation of the Cats part. I have chosen to
write it in first person, as it is in the article. There were a few
problems translating it, mostly because the Swedish language has a
combined word for actor and actress. But except from that I think it
should be okay:
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On his his fifth birthday, in December 1992, we took Patreascu to the
musical Cats. At first he was terrified when the "cats" approached
him. They noticed he was afraid though, so they backed off and layed
down instead, and stretched out in front of him. He reached out and
tapped a dazzlingy white cat, and rubbed his face in her fur. From
that moment on, he was totally enchanted by the show. In the
interval we were invited to visit the ensamble backstage. The actors
and actresess were absolutely wonderful. They let him pat the furs,
and they encouraged him to show he could walk without his crutches.
In the second act, Patreascu suddenly caught sight of his favourite
character, Rum Tum Tugger [Christopher Howard - West End 1992], who
he had spent most of the interval with. "Kitty-ca'!" he called out in
delight. His very first words.
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I think the story of the boy's recovery has been published as a book.
If this is the case, the book is called Do Robins Cough?, and
is written by Beverly Peberdy (thanks, Ivy and Alissa!).
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A girl writes into "The Humiliating Moments" about how she was
humiliated while going on a class field trip to see Cats
(thanks, CHRBroadway!).
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"Billings' main theater, the Alberta Bair Theater, presents community
plays as well as national shows like Cats." Thanks, Skitty!
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There's an article on a soap opera actress who played Sillabub for
nine months. She talks about how hard it was to be in Cats
because it went entirely against all of her dance training and how
somebody was almost always injured (thanks, Demari!).
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They were looking at the rooms of some celebrities, and some girl
(the girl how plays Libby on Sabrina the Teenage Witch) had a
Cats playbill (thanks, CHRBroadway!).
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When Cats celebrated its 18th birthday this year, the
Times culture section had an advert saying "Cats 18th
birthday!" below was a picture of a dog saying "Lifes a b*tch!"
Thanks, Sapphire Jellicle!
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If you would like to read the text version of the article, please
click here. If you would like to
view a scanned photo of the article (with a picture of some of the
characters), click
here (thanks
for scanning the photo, Froster!)
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If you would like to read the text version of the article, please
click here. If you would like to
view a scanned photo of the article (with a picture of some of the
characters), click
here (thanks
for scanning the photo, Froster!)
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On p. 124 is an article titled "Sets and Setsibility: Venn Diagrams
for the 90s". It features various Venn diagrams. One of the diagrams,
down at the bottom, shows two circles interlocking. The left circle
says "Now" and the right circle says "Forever." The result? Cats!
It also has a picture of Macavity (thanks, Jemima Mistoffelees!).
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Every year, Wizard does a Halloween costume contest where fans
can submit pics of themselves dressed as comic book characters, video
game characters, etc. But the editors of the mag always put a funny
caption with the pics to make it look like they're saying something,
to make fun of the people dressed up.
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Well, one of the pics this year was of two guys dressed as the comic
book characters Dr. Doom and Thor. Above the guy dressed as Dr. Doom,
they put in the caption "The singing, the dancing . . . it was
delightful!" Then above the guy dressed as Thor, they have the
caption "Now and forever . . .'Cats'." Thanks, Nebula!
