Andrew Lloyd Webber is a dividing figure among the theater. There is a whole generation that considers (obviously a sober) devil -based, simplistic composer of ear melodies, which occupy the space of empty music music. "Jesus Christ Superstwar" and "Josephoseph and the incredible technician Dricoat" were exempted during the strange Christian revival of Broadway In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Webber hit his creative peak with Evita. Historically and politically, it's a blurred affair, but Webber and lyricist Tim Rice are looking at the audience with one show, before delivering one of the most surprising (and, according to the wild d'etime patti lupone, hard-to-singing) music numbers in the history of the genre.

What do you do for critical and commercial success like "Evita?" Webber split with Rice and decided a complete musical based on the poetry collection of TS Eliot "The Book of Practical Cats" at Old Postum "was what Broadway needed. He was, inexplicably, right." Cats "was a Broadway sensation. That was, at one point, the longest leading in the history of the great White Road, a tourism center that, for many, felt more substantial than travels to the Empire building, the World Trade Center or the Statue of Freedom. You haven't really visited Newouge if you left without seeing "cats". "Saturday night live" Even make a whole sketch Rifing this.

When I moved to Cyorc in 1996 to continue his career at the theater, the great playwright Milan Stit, with whom I worked with the repertoire company, was constantly encouraging me to hit the TCTS stand and see as much as I could. When I told him that I would skip "cats" (because I listened to the original footage of Broadway cast and found a shallow out of the only good song on the show, "Memory"), he fueled, answering: "Ereeremi, you have to see them. You have to see what works. "Meanwhile, Taylor Swift was seven years old when I bought my ticket at a reasonable price for a week of performing this weightless musical.

I followed the advice of Stit and I sat down through the weak musical, where the actors in the manja look, with fragrant suits, wrapped me in a miracle of ranking. (The winter garden was restored immediately after my visit.) It was a real difficult temptation. "Cats" was the forerunner of the spectacular phase of Jululey Timer's adaptation to "The Lion King", but its submersible qualities could not cover up its narrative and musical shortcomings. Webber was out of his game with textbooks, to the point that I could not imagine why someone loves this show in the first place.

Webber's show later boasts better melodies and more attractive stories (eg what makes them special is not translated on the big screen. The "cats" lacked their melodic juice, so I couldn't understand why Universal was moving forward with a movie adaptation. Moviegoers at Multiplex Theater and attack them with an ultra-significant, CGI-heavy production.

With the average trader Tom Houper at the head (the director of the "King's Speech" and Fatally compromised "Danish girl"), "Cats" received the adaptation of the film they deserved. Stunningly, Houper has entered some of the biggest actors alive, along with Godawful James Corden (whom even Webber couldn't stand in the movie) And, probably, the largest pop -starvisor on the planet -and, stunningly, Swift did not immediately determine its involvement in this massive bomb -bomb.

In January 2020 When the film opened up for savage negative checkups and bad treasury returns, however, it became clear that the "cats" were across the board as the Academy Award candidate.

Swift took over the role of a flirtatious bomb in "cats" and, according to her, played its role as the sensual wings. Unfortunately, the fact that it is a cat occupies its portrayal of all erotic power; It is disturbing because, as the owner of cats, I cannot start looking at an attractive pop star, all come as a hybrid-human hybrid. It's tricky, just like the rest of the movie around her.

Swift could be immersed in the studio "at this point (even if she did not actually wrote or record music), but, but, In an interview with Variety Before the Golden Globes ceremony, she stood beside her work in "cats". As she told the trade publication:

"I'm happy to be here, happy to be nominated and I had a really great time working on that strange movie.

It is a perfect diplomatic response. She paid tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber and shone a talented collection of dancers and "performers", the latest of which included Ian McKellen, Juddi Dench, Ennennifer Hudson, Idris Elba and Jason Derulo. Yes, it is a spoiled movie based on a musical that has long lost magic, but she responded to the accident as a champion. In the meantime, if we could get someone to fix the book on Webber's "Loveube Cuke", we might have a masterpiece.