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The Kansas City baseball team is the Royals and their mascot is a
lion named Sluggerrr. Sluggerrr has a special trading card he hands
out to kids at the games. The card lists some of his favorite things,
all with catty jokes. Like his marital status is "still on the prowl"
and his favorite food is "the other team". Anyway, guess what his
favorite musical is? Yeppers. It's Cats (thanks, Ozzie!).
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They have a Lego version of New York City which includes Broadway,
of course! They have signs for some musicals like Beauty and the
Beast and Chicago, and they also have a clock that looks exactly like
the Jellicle Moon (thanks, Kalliroscope!).
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On this cd-rom game, if you land on the square "Invest in Broadway
Play" it shows two guys standing off stage and an actor that is
dressed like Rum Tum Tugger, but has a really bad costume. The guys
off stage will say one of two things:
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1.) First guy: "This is increadible! Its unbelieveable! Nothing has
ever been done like this before. I call it, 'Kittens'!" or
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2.) Second guy: "Um, hasn't something like this already been done
before?" (thanks, Cerrita!).
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Cats is mentioned several times, but they call "Memory"
"Memories" (thanks, Ozzie!).
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In London, we are trying to build a new football stadium [around May
15, 2001], and it is not going very well. The whole thing has
stopped, so in our Parliament building one MP, our version of a
senator, demanded to know what has gone wrong. He said, "Is it the
government's fault or the Football Association, or is it a case of
Macavity's not there?" Thanks, Steve!
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I was just on this love test, testing me and my crush, and I was
reading what it said about us, and when I got to the end of the page
it said, "You two are better than Cats and more touching than
Phantom." Thanks, Sara!
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The new millennium stamps feature Cats? My friend said that
her mom was looking though a magazine that showed the new stamps and
it had cats from Cats on them. They might be coming out in
May (thanks, Demeter!).
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During the Comics Division, one of the sub-divsion of the Mother Club
Murray did a Cats related theme - "Going to the S.P.C.A." They
had a bunch of Vicci lookalikes, including a bunch of pink ones, and
a Misto-looking person wandering around. The cats (except the
Misto looking one) played with a big ball of yarn, then they were
captured by a bunch of dogs (thanks, Zoe!).
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Also in the Mummers is the Brummel String Band. They haven't done
anything Cats related, but if you think about it, their name
is in Bustopher Jones (thanks, Zoe!).
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At this site, the name of one of the songs "In the Summertime"
was performed by a band called Mungo Jerry (thanks, Fleckenfell!).
By the way, Cat Morgan (Hector M.) has said that Mungo Jerry was a
band sometime in the 1970's.
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Just to add to the little snippet about the band Mungo Jerry: it was
a band who hit it big in 1975 with "In the Summertime". They wanted
to bring back skiffle, a type of jug band music that supposedly
started in England. I don't think their name is related to the
musical. One of the band members names was Jerry (thanks, Disco
Dawn!).
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In a newspaper article by Bill Elvirino (it ran in January 1999, and
was reprinted January 2000), he commented on how the Shop-Rite can
commercial runs every January, and has been for what seems like a
long time. He says "Probably longer than Cats." Thanks, Fleetpaw!
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I participate in NHS quiz team and at a tournament one of the
questions was, "What is the longest running broadway show?" Thanks,
Aurora!
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At Kings Island in Cincinnati Ohio, there is a show called the
Nicolodean show where a bunch of characters from Nick sing songs.
Well, Catdog comes out and sings this song about the beach, but
Angelica says it is an awful song. This is how it goes:
______Cat: You didn't like the song?
______Well, we can do that one from Cats!
______Dog: Which one from Cats, cat?
______Cat: You know . . . Memory?
______Dog: Erg, sorry I can't remember. Oh, wait! It's coming to me now! Nope, it's gone.
______Angelica: Who wants to see a stupid show about Cats anyway?
______[Everyone on stage jumps around saying, "Me! Me!"]
______DJ: Sorry, guys . . . it closed!
______Thanks, Kat Purr!
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View this Cats sighting
here.
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It is from January 22, 1999. The comic strip is by Mark Parisi
(thanks, Birana!)
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On this computer game, one of the overlap puzzles, it shows the
corner of Broadway *I think* and it has those HUGE billboards for the
musicals. They had 'Beauty and the Beast, a huge sky scraper, a
McDonalds joint *seriously!* and Cats! It was way down in the
corner, but it was their anyways (thanks, Cerrita!).
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In the features section the diary of Stephen Hanan (original cast
member). Very interesting read (thanks, R.J.!)!
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I was on my eighth grade quiz bowl team and at a tournament, one of
the questions was, "At the end of Cats, which cat is chosen to
go the Heaviside Layer?" Thanks, Colleen!
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This guy is talking to his sister or girlfriend or cousin, "Hey you
remember the time you danced in front of everyone in your poodle
skirt? Remember when you ate all the something I can't remember what.
Oh, oh how about when cousin Fred gave you his family heirloom
incrusted with rubies and you gave him your Cats souvenir T-shirt?!"
Thanks, Hailey!
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When I was entering Paris, France, they played "Memory" in English
on the radio. What was cool was I think it was sung by Elaine Paige
(thanks, Fleckenfell!).
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A restaurant I went to in Arizona had a New York theme. There were a
lot of posters from Broadway shows on the walls, Cats included
(the reddish one with the OBC in a pyramid). Cats and The
Phantom of the Opera had the honor of being painted on the
walls. The painted billboards were floating above a hot dog stand.
Cats was in front, had painted lights around it, and real
lights outlining the words (thanks, Birana!).
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They have a Mastercard Trivia Game. On the third question they ask,
what Rosie Perez's first big break in show business was, and one of
the choices is, "In a production of "Cats" of Broadway" (thanks,
Powder!).
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When we were down in Texas for Easter, we went to this store and
started looking around. The store was playing Cats music in
MIDI form. They played "The Jellicle Ball" and "Memory" (thanks,
Kari!).
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When you go on the escalator from the first floor to the second, they
have signs that look like they're from musicals, but with a Warner
Brothers twist. There's a black sign that says "Puddies" (Tweety's
word for "cats") in white, and Sylvester eyes with Tweety's shadow in
them (thanks, Fleetpaw!).
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At the Yankees party thing for when they won the world series this
year, the announcer was making fun of how many NY shows there were
there, like the Rockettes. Then he joked about how they would have
the cast of Cats next year (thanks, Froster!).
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The category was "Scoopin' Out the CatsTM
Box". The question was worth $4,000 and was a fill-in the blank
which goes as follows: It's so easy to leave me, all alone in the
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The category was "Champions With Accessories" (or something similar)
which also led up to the Jack Attack. One of the options that
continued to pop up was 'tickets to Cats!'
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This is from the comic "Zits." Hector was talking about how he had a
song stuck in his head and would only tell Jeremy it was a show tune.
Jeremy asked, "Is it from Cats?" Hector said, "No, it's not from
Cats." It turned out to be "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria"
from The Sound of Music (thanks, Centrylynna and CHRBroadway!).
