CatsMovie hits theaters Friday. Variety reviews the, um, zany film
The instant a filmmaker comes along, blocking and framing all that dancing into medium and tight shots, the effect is lost.
When the show opened on Broadway, David Letterman picked on it constantly. A few years later, playwright John Guare used it as a running joke in “Six Degrees of Separation,” wherein a family of upper-crust Gothamites are taken in by a charming young con man who claims to be the son of Sidney Poitier, seducing them all with the promise of roles in the movie version of “Cats.
This allows him to visit cats in different habitats, from the vermin-infested kitchen where Old Gumbie Cat surveys mice and cockroaches dancing in Busby Berkeley-style formation to the stage where Gus the Theatre Cat sings of his exploits, and from which Old Deuteronomy will select a cat for reincarnation at the annual Jellicle ball.
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