Cats, go to wasteland – France Info

A smiling evening, moving, entertaining, with what to dance, tap dancing to rap, through classical ballet, and large numbers sung by several voices, is the entertainment menu whose song the most famous is Memory popularized by Barbra Streisand. A Mogador is Prisca Demarez young artist we discovered in “Avenue Q”, who plays the role of an impeccably glamorous pussy became alley cat, a character who wanders into his suit in tatters and remembers his life .

“Cats” is a kind of review that takes place under a full moon in a vacant lot where broken furnaces and hang old giant tires, wide cats. Nearly 25 players with painted faces of a kitsch way on paper, but very successful, wandering feline way in costumes reminiscent of the colors of the breastplates chat, on the occasion of an annual ball. The sophisticated choreography unfold in blue or orange lights
Everyone is entitled to his great number.
– There is the theater cat who remembers his heyday on stage
– chat railway,
– the magician cat
– Siamese cats
… To each their style of music, the ride to jazz, through lyrical music in an elaborate staging that leaves little time out to viewers.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of Cats. In 1981 he decided to set to music a poem collection to popular child in England signed by TS Elliot. A cat portraist gallery around which he managed to weave a light plot. The show was a phenomenal success since remained on Broadway for nearly 20 years. A success, which nobody expected. As explained by Andrew Lloyd Weber:

“ At the first performance, we wondered if we were not going to go into the annals of the worst show with all these actors dressed as cats. When the actors are on stage, we felt some things in public. As in the evening, it took in depth and density. ON understood that holding something Special . “

In Paris, the show deserves to be refined. Some actors numbers and hang the leg. The rapper cat song falls flat. All choreographies are not clear. Everything is in French but we sometimes do not understand the words of cats. It’s embarrassing to follow the story. But in the end we clear away delighted to have been trained in this dreamlike and sensual dump by a show that sparkles with imagination

Cats at Mogador Theatre in Paris.