Word: grizabella
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...assistant lie about her boyfriend to her producer? - this one is about whether a man who says he needs love really deserves it. And (POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT) the big ethical question is whether a hardened comedian will get all teary when he sees a 10-year-old dressed as Grizabella and singing "Memory" from Cats...
...dancers playing the secondary role of Alonzo (Ken Nagy in Washington, Stephen Moore touring) achieve the cool detachment of another species. The singing, although always vibrant, is uneven. In the peripatetic cast Andy Spangler glows as the Elvis-like Rum Tum Tugger and Leslie Ellis is haunting as Grizabella, the faded glamour cat, but in the Washington troupe the performers in those roles, Douglas Graham and Janene Lovullo, do not measure...
Dutka has collected some show business memories: "Cats Director Trevor Nunn giving me a mesmerizing reading of T.S. Eliot's 'Grizabella, the Glamour Cat'; Paul Newman letting me take a rare close look at his souped-up Volkswagen; South African Playwright Athol Fugard sitting in the Algonquin Hotel lobby and analyzing the tragedy of apartheid; Robert Redford asking for my opinions on President Reagan, the press and living in New York City before launching into a discussion of directing in Hollywood...
...penned a splendid processional, all pomp and circumference, for Brian Blessed as Old Deuteronomy, the group's sage and patriarch. For Elaine Paige, who was the original West End Evita and here plays a tattered cat of the evening named Grizabella, Lloyd Webber wrote the show's first hit single, a melancholy bolero called Memory...
...kaleidoscope of colorful costumes and Kabuki gymnastics. Rum Tum Tugger, the cool cat of rock (Paul Nicholas), tells the story of magical Mr. Mistoffelees (Royal Ballet Dancer Wayne Sleep), who displays twisting, spiraling, pirouetting feats of legerdepied. Finally, Old Deuteronomy bestows a rare gift on the down-and-out Grizabella: a tenth life. The stage becomes misty, an otherworldly light suffuses the theater, a giant tire rises eerily above the pussylanimous crowd, and Grizabella ascends, reborn and apotheosized, "up up up past the Russell Hotel, up up up to the Heaviside layer." This is heaven for cats and a stunning...
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