‘Cats’ the Musical Makes Cynical Remarks of our Society - Musical 'Cats' Review
The writer got the chance to watch the original cast performance of ‘Cats’, a well-known musical in the West End and Broadway. The musical was performed in Sejong Centre Theatre, located in Seoul, Korea. For those who don’t know about this musical, it is a well-known musical produced by Cameron Mackintosh and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. The musical was first premiered at London in 1981.
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Musical ‘Cats’ uses ballet as the main choreography, with big props of rubbish scaled to the cats’ perspectives. The makeup and wardrobe of all the performers are amazing, with different kinds of makeups and wardrobes for each performer. The ‘cats’ stage is everywhere, where the performers appear at all parts of the theatre, sometimes sitting on the audience’s lap, meowing at them, and fooling around with them, like real cats.
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‘Cats’ shows the society that we live in a cat’s perspective. The musical tells how less creative humans are, by introducing different kinds of cats who claim themselves much more creative. By introducing different kinds of cats, the musical also portrays different kinds of perspectives and prejudices that the humans possess, like lookism, sexism, etc.
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The most remarkable song of this musical is ‘Memory’, where Grizabella, the so called ‘old and ugly’ cat, sings about her beautiful past and how she lives her life day by day, missing the past. The music touches all the audience because everyone has their own past memories, whether they were good or bad memories. The song gives the audience their own memories, making them tear up.
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‘Cats’ teaches us how humans should treat cats, but in a deeper way, it teaches that there is no difference between how cats and humans act, that they have similar traits. Cats are humans, and humans are cats. That is what the writer of this musical wanted to tell the audience. The musical is recommended to all people no matter how old they are. Musical ‘Cats’ gives us a great lesson about life.
