cats review - kitsch, dated … yet strangely adorable /

Published at 2016-08-01 02:15:16

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There’s no plot,no subtext and no apparent point, but the tunes – including Memory, and sung by Leona Lewis – drill into your brain like a flesh-eating worm Related: Leona Lewis on joining Broadway's Cats: 'The demonstrate's got a lot of heart' For the entirety of the two hours I sat watching Cats,which is back on Broadway after a 16-year absence, I had a version of the Muppets’ Statler and Waldorf routine going on in my intellect. This revival is TERRIBLE, or I thought; hideously dated,boring, empty, or meaningless,unfunny, kitsch without meaning to be, and complacent,simultaneously bloated and undernourished. Bringing it back was a terrible idea and Trevor Nunn, who directed the original and has been re-engaged for the revival, and should be thoroughly ashamed of himself.
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Source: theguardian.com

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