bgoff60 Posted July 19, 2022 #1 Share Posted July 19, 2022 One thing you LIKED about CATS and one thing you did NOT like about CATS... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poocher Posted July 19, 2022 #2 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Liked that it’s not Grease or Mamma Mia!!!! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare xpcdoojk Posted July 19, 2022 #3 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Like the costumes, like memories. Makes me cry, just like Mama Mia. Grease makes me sigh, and wonder why I am different than the people who like that corny production. JC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDawg Posted July 19, 2022 #4 Share Posted July 19, 2022 38 minutes ago, bgoff60 said: One thing you LIKED about CATS and one thing you did NOT like about CATS... Liked - I was able to leave early. Did not like - It started. Hey, you asked. 😁 8 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverbeenhere Posted July 19, 2022 #5 Share Posted July 19, 2022 What I liked is locked in my Memory. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfaeric Posted July 19, 2022 #6 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Liked- the end Didn't like- everything before that. 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare ReneeFLL Posted July 19, 2022 #7 Share Posted July 19, 2022 29 minutes ago, DirtyDawg said: Liked - I was able to leave early. Did not like - It started. Hey, you asked. 😁 👍🏼 23 minutes ago, alfaeric said: Liked- the end Didn't like- everything before that. 👍🏼 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARandomTraveler Posted July 19, 2022 #8 Share Posted July 19, 2022 (edited) I haven't seen CATS on the ship, but count me as someone who really likes it. I just saw it for the second time in San Francisco last month and thought it was great 😂🐈 I like the music. I think it helps to see the DVD Hollywood version first because they do a better job helping to kind of explain the plot lines a little better then the on-stage versions do. Edited July 19, 2022 by ARandomTraveler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcur Posted July 19, 2022 #9 Share Posted July 19, 2022 1 hour ago, xpcdoojk said: Like the costumes, like memories. Makes me cry, just like Mama Mia. Grease makes me sigh, and wonder why I am different than the people who like that corny production. JC Me, too, JC. I liked all three of those productions. However, it helps to read TS Eliot's cat poems first. I even liked the movie, which got bad reviews. (Of course, as my husband used to say, "You are easily entertained".) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandma Petania Posted July 19, 2022 #10 Share Posted July 19, 2022 1 hour ago, pcur said: ...it helps to read TS Eliot's cat poems first. Absolutely! Knowing the stories behind the various numbers really helps. I saw CATS twice on Oasis some years ago when it was still the longer version with an intermission. I enjoyed seeing it from further back in the audience, and the second time from front row. Will be on Oasis again in November. Don't know if I will want to see it again then. Fortunately, I have more than three months to decide. 😄 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare perfect match Posted July 19, 2022 #11 Share Posted July 19, 2022 We love the whole show and the talented singers, dancers and actors who perform it. Didn’t like when they shortened it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyancho Posted July 19, 2022 #12 Share Posted July 19, 2022 It was odious. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrSea Posted July 19, 2022 #13 Share Posted July 19, 2022 My background: I have a degree in theater from a top 10 theater school in the US and am a classically trained actor. Like - I guess the use of space? Or maybe that it gives a voice or resonates with a very particular crowd (I'm thinking crazy cat ladies?) Hate - The lack of plot. It is an amalgamation of poorly strung together songs and dances inspired from a random collection of cat poems. It just doesn't translate well onstage. Very frustrating. If you seen crazy ex girlfriend, their parody of Cats is 1000x better than the actual musical (and the episode actually has a plot). Not saying that all musicals/plays have to have a plot. I get that is sometimes the point the author is trying to make. But when all other aspects are so poorly executed, lacking a plot for me is the lynch pin that really grinds my gears and frustrates me to no end. At that point, I am left asking myself why I wasted my time sitting through a show that made no sense. Others agreeing with me with the lack of plot and other related commentary: https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/crazy-ex-girlfriend-cats-itchy-hungry-funky-nostalgia.html There are more raunchy videos from crazy ex girlfriend with cat songs. But I didn't post it here bc IDK if it complies with the TOS. And don't get me started on the movie of the musical... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soremekun Posted July 19, 2022 #14 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Like: It keeps people employed Didn't like: Those people didn't walk off the job 3 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelblu Posted July 19, 2022 #15 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Don't know which is worse the "Gift" or "Cats."😄 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjb317 Posted July 19, 2022 #16 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I like Cats, have seen it twice in off Broadway productions and twice on Oasis. I do think it gets slow at times. Royal’s production is excellent, better than one of the off Broadway productions I attended. Having said that, I have never thought Cats seemed right on a cruise ship. It is kind of depressing, I can never get through it without getting teary eyed, throw in a glass of wine and I am sobbing.😂. I am on a cruise to relax and have fun, not contemplate the meaning of life. Entertainment on a cruise ship should be fun! Sherri🙂 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDawg Posted July 19, 2022 #17 Share Posted July 19, 2022 1 hour ago, soremekun said: Like: It keeps people employed Didn't like: Those people didn't walk off the job I spit my coffee all over my keyboard when I read your post just now. You win the Groucho award for this one! 🤣🏆 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
October17 Posted July 19, 2022 #18 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Like: it’s Cats a musical 😍😍😍😍 Do not like: The “new” CGI movie version 😳 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loman Posted July 19, 2022 #19 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I cant sit through anything more than one hour , let alone a musical . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yogimax Posted July 19, 2022 #20 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Great show... sit up front so you can see the facial expressions of the cats. Please read a summary of the show and plot (yes, there is a plot) before you arrive to know the basic story line. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renza Posted July 19, 2022 #21 Share Posted July 19, 2022 I liked that I got my best nap in during the show. Cons. Everything 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Oceansaway17 Posted July 19, 2022 #22 Share Posted July 19, 2022 12 hours ago, nelblu said: Don't know which is worse the "Gift" or "Cats."😄 Both have a story that some folks do not catch onto early on. So then they lose interests. But Cats has a lot of fun songs and costumes. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Bound4Bermuda Posted July 23, 2022 #23 Share Posted July 23, 2022 I just saw it a few days ago on Oasis, so this is fresh in my mind…like a nightmare that leaves you unsettled when it creeps back up to your consciousness in your quiet waking moments. I liked that it gave me something to do by myself for an hour and a half in the evening when my family bailed on me (daughter went off with friends and husband went to bed early). I didn’t like, well… Let’s just say I was warned by the members of this board, but I was curious to see it for myself—but you were right!! All I can say was for the first handful of songs, the audience was dead silent. No one clapped and I can imagine they were all sitting there like I was thinking What the f— am I watching?! What the f— is happening?! Then the feline solos started up, and at the end, each cat would put their arms out waiting for their thunderous applause, so the audience started giving polite golf claps. Mind you, the audience was fleeing after each song. I was stuck in the middle of the top row, so I was going to bail once one side or the other of my row opened up. But one side left an hour in, and at that point, I survived 2/3 so I decided to see it through. The Glamourpuss shunned cat sang Memories, and the audience gave more emphatic applause and even some “Wooo”s! Hey, we know this song! Then some other Cat sang pieces of Memories a couple of times, and okay, that’s the big song… Then the disheveled, shunned Cat sang Memories again, and jeez, Andrew Lloyd Webber really phoned it in only writing one big song… As a child of the 80s growing up in NJ, I saw that “Cats! Now and forever at the Winter Garden Theater!” commercial continuously for years and years, so there were moments that hit me—aha, that’s just like the commercial! So, I guess the rendition was true to Broadway. But all of those NYC tourists who got bamboozled because they had no idea of what they were getting themselves into—wanting to see a Broadway show in the big city, and hey, we have a pet cat… All I can say is that maybe it made sense in the 70s when people took psychedelic drugs and were prone to joining cults?? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsMidge Posted July 23, 2022 #24 Share Posted July 23, 2022 The talent of the cast was amazing as well as the costumes. The story not so much, but what do we know, there must be a lot of people that like the play for some reason, as it was one of the longest running plays on broadway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retired dude Posted July 23, 2022 #25 Share Posted July 23, 2022 allergic to the four legged variety and ditto for this so called musical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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