It was mentioned as a musical that Marsha Belsky dislikes, specifically due to the synced poems spoken by the characters and its general weirdness.
I hate, or I don't know if I hate it.
— Episode: "The Plot of The Bible" (w/ Marcia Belsk...
Episode: "The Plot of The Bible" (w/ Marcia Belsky)
It was mentioned as a musical that Marsha Belsky dislikes, specifically due to the synced poems spoken by the characters and its general weirdness.
I hate, or I don't know if I hate it.
I hated cats.
Cats traumatize me as a child.
Like whenever- Tyler Coates loves cats.
The part where they all speak in synchrony, like, synced in poem, I can't do it.
Episode: "Advanced Actresses" (w/ Tyler Coates)
Tyler discussed how 'Cats' became a formative experience due to the music and costumes, particularly after a childhood experience with 'Beauty and the Beast on Ice'.
It's based on poetry by T.S. Elliot, like adults. He wrote this and then other adults were like, 'this is good content'. What? Let's make a musical about it with other adults for the enjoyment of adults.
And then my mother surprised me with tickets to the national tour in Richmond and sat in the orchestra. I remember when the lights went down and like we're on the aisle. So like the cats come out and like they turn on their eyes and get the shit out of me and they were just roaming around and then they go up on stage and then I could only stare at their crotches.
Because it's all like because it's, you know, the majesty of watching performance like big performance. It's no Disney on ice. It's like for real. It's for real. It's dancing with their whole body with their whole body and the bodies that I could not stop staring.
So once a year in London, all the cats gather for the gelical ball. Yes, I know about this. There's like you see like there's like a couple of like cat burglars, Mongo Jerry and Ripple teaser. You have like a crazy like Auntie like Jenny and he dots who's like takes kittens under her wing and like all these rum tum tugger who's like horny and weird about it. I played him in a sketch.
And then you have Grisabella, who was like old bitch. Old bitch, but like on her last life. And she is the glamour cat and everyone hates her because she used to think her shit didn't stink, but then she got old and everyone's like, yeah, bitch. Yes, what? The same litter box as the rest of us.