Review: CATS

I'm not really one who goes to the theater often, however, for a friend's birthday, I bought tickets to see CATS, the famous musical. I had obviously heard of the musical before, but I really had no idea what it was about, I walked in expecting a cute story about cats that face some sort of obstacle in society and has cats in love an cat drama. But I sat there until the intermission waiting for the plot to start, however, there really isn't one, it's just cats singing about different kinds of cats, no dialogue. When the lights turned on and looked at my friend who was just as confused as I was. I sat there on my Blackberry trying to google what the story was about.

It's the story about a tribe of cats called Jellicle Cats who gather once a year to choose a cat to be reincarnated, that's about it. There's also a scene with a pirate cat, the fat leader cat gets cat-napped by the evil magic cat, but no worries, the good magic cat brings him back. In the end the old glamour cat who had left the tribe when she was young and beautiful in hopes of a better life returned old and ugly who is sunned by the other cats, but then she sings the famous "Memory" and the fat leader cat sends her to be reincarnated. Then there's a speech about how humans should be kind to cats and call them by their names, which there apparently are three original names for each cat that we're supposed to know. ...What?

Though the actual story/ plot of the musical just confuses and makes me laugh, the performance was incredible, the dancing and singing would have taken my breath away had the story not been that hilarious. I know that this show was on Broadway for really long and won lots of awards, but why? I mean, I could definitely come up with a more intriguing plot if I had the money and talented performers.

Regardless of the utter confusion and giggle fits through the show, it was money well spent and we had a good time, but what I really can't wrap my head around is why this became a success. The songs are catchy, the dancing is great, but that applies to hundreds of musicals. Is money the reason this became successful? It makes me sad to think that the less weathy talented writers don't get the fame and success of the ones with money, of course this doesn't only apply to writers but the entire world.