Cats - The Musical Streaming
Dimanche, juin 6th, 2010 |
Cats - The Musical Streaming.
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The `Cats’ DVD is a cinematic recount of the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical as performed on the London stage in, I have, 1998 starring Elaine Paige in the `lead’ role of Grizabella, although the only aspect of her role which warrants calling it the starring role is the fact that this character sings the `show-stopper’ song, `Memory’ which, if you are to enjoy writer / director Kevin Smith’s bit in `Jersey Girl’, has become a staunch Broadway cliché. The reveal is the most truly `ensemble’ performance I can judge of. Few characters stand out for more than the length of a single fraction, yet practically all characters are on stage for over 50% of the two-hour performance. Aside from Paige, the only character / actor who is remotely familiar to me is John Mills who is on for but two scenes and who is more of a prop than a character.
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I gain a strong point of the fact that this is a recording of a stage performance rather than a conversion of the play to a more realistic environment. This conversion is done for most Broadway plays turned into movies, especially for spacious musicals such as `Oklahoma’, `The Sound of Music’, `My Heavenly Lady’, and `Chicago’. But this conversion is not always successful. That is, the very tall realistic setting is not always an enhancement. My best evidence for this is the film done of `The Fantasticks’ with a cast including such high powered talent as Joel Gray and others. As someone how has seen the play done on the live stage three times with three different interpretations, including a performance by the Modern York City cast, I can say that the movie failed to breath any life into the classic minimalist staging it gets in intimate cramped theaters. The movie was simply not as safe as the live performance. This is clearly not the case with this DVD represent. It gives us the stage fantasy that needs practically no embellishment with a steady ally or cinematic whiz-bang.
Like `The Fantasticks’, I have seen `Cats’ on the Original York stage sitting in a mezzanine seat about 4 rows from the succor of the Winter Garden theatre. And, while there is something about a live performance that simply cannot be recorded, I will say that this DVD (and VCR) recording is quite as genuine a portray as you can come by.
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My most primary criteria for evaluating a movie on DVD or VCR is whether or not the work wears well after the second or third or fourth viewing. For example, `Chicago’ was fun to peep once, but I have no burning desire to peep it again. On the other hand, `Singin’ in the Rain’ I can spy about once a year and level-headed gain the time well spent. I will say with tall conviction that I can inspect this recording of `Cats’ once a year and devour every little exhaust with the experience, because I have done so over the last few years. The performance and its picture are so durable that my second most vital criteria for a DVD, a capable commentary track, becomes unnecessary. And, the commentary track is basically a ruin of time for a musical anyway, especially a musical based on notorious poems written 65 years ago by the most indispensable poet, T. S. Eliot in `Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’.
The play has the thinnest of plots based on a once a year selection of one Jellicle cat to ascend into some station of grace, presumably at the conclusion of their legendary nine (9) lives. The only other station twist involves the kidnapping of the head cat, Musty Deuteronomy, thereby preventing this feline apotheosis from being carried out.
This accounts for four or five out of the nineteen numbers. All the rest are based directly on fourteen out of the fifteen poems in Eliot’s petite book.
One may assume that this work has but a single hit song and, therefore, the remaining musical numbers are second rate. This is certainly not the case. I derive myself tapping my toe to all numbers, with especial pleasure coming from `Jellicle Cats’, `Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser’, and `The Pekes and the Pollicles’. These are noteworthy more like stories in song than a simple ballad with easily remembered refrain.
Very highly recommended for anyone with a taste for musicals and worth a try for anyone who likes fantasy.
I am 77 years old-fashioned.
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My beloved behind wife and I were avid live theater patrons, both in GB and the USA.
My wife and I were lucky to have seen our first “Cats” performance in London the first month it opened.
Several years later we again revisited London and saw “Cats” again.
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Both times it was a powerful theatrical experience.
I unbiased received my “Cats (Ultimate Edition) ” DVD and it is the very best version of “Cats” I have ever seen.
The extra bonus DVD that comes with the “Unlimited Edition,” explaining in limited detail, how the play “Cats” was conceived and its production, is truly worth the heed of DVD alone.
Joe Levin, Las Vegas NV
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