Fox
offers
St. Louis a Holiday Treat with 25th
Anniversary tour of ‘Cats’
By David
Clooney
For America’s Seniors at
www.TodaysSeniorsNetwork.com
The Fabulous Fox has
offered a colorful, eye-filling and satisfying
Holiday treat with the 25th Anniversary
Tour of ‘Cats’ now appearing through Sunday,
December 31.
It was a special ‘treat’
for me and my wife, Liz, since, although we love the
music, have sung and hummed it regularly and
listened to others talk about it, we have missed the
opportunity to actually see it. I hope that others
in St. Louis and within driving distance of this
wonderful production, don’t dally like we did.
The Fabulous Fox is the
perfect setting for the fast-moving production. The
Fox’ stage is large, even huge, and it always seems
to do best when filled with a large cast of quality
performers (It’s not enough just to have a lot of
people up there). Fortunately, ‘Cats’ provides a
quantity of quality performers.
It’s easy to understand
the staying power of ‘Cats’. It’s based on T.S.
Eliot’s ‘Old POssom’s Book of Practical Cats’, the
‘practical ‘ being an oxymoron when describing cats,
and therein lies the fun. As a cat owner over the
year, I know cats to be a lot of things—curious,
arrogant, playful, smart, lazy, fun, energetic, lazy
to name only a few qualities—and that’s just one
cat.
But, each and every cat
has one dominant type of personality, and, as ‘Cats’
reminds us, it’s seldom that we really get to see
the magic world in which cats live. Interestingly,
they also have some personality traits that remind
us that we’re really not so different from them.
That’s what makes ‘Cats’
so magical. It’s the first mega-musical (a
creation
of Andrew Lloyd Webber), it became the
longest-running show on Broadway and now, 25 years
later, performances on five continents before over
half-a-million audience members, and providing the
background music for countless karaoke bars, it’s
just as fresh and enjoyable as when it first
electrified New York audiences.
That’s why we suggest that
you take this opportunity to respond to the opening
number of the show, an invitation to Jellicle Cats
to come out tonight at attend the Jellicle Ball at
the Fabulous Fox.