well, at this stage i am quite happy with the music (after being so disappointed with Lion King)
It's a bit getting use to with most of the songs now in first person lyrics, and a somewhat semi British Taylor Swift. But it sounds great, so I couldn't care less how it looks. cant wait to hear the full score.
thankfully also they have stuck to the original Rum Tum Tugger song, and not the hiphop version. but it does have a more soulful take. (no longer an elvis type song)
sabrelady said: "Stop motion would have been a better medium."
regarding this and the comment about a pixar cats animation, these wont work because its a dance show. U cant have anatomical cats dancing, it just wont work, the whole point of it being a dance show is to have people dancing, even if it was full on cgi like Frozen, cgi dancing is not appealing as there is no apparent skill involved (dance) as the animators can make them do anything they want.
Lot666 said: "Justin D said: "when ever I see photos of the Mark Hellinger I can only imagine how awesome Phantom would have looked in there."
It does seem to have the Phantom aesthetic."
The only drawback would be when they need to paint around the stage black, but I guess they could do like what they did in Toronto and leave out some highlight details in gold so it wont totally clash
as a fan i can live with out the pollicle song (although I did like how they integrated it into the recent revival)
and am glad that atleast a tiny bit of growltiger is kept. (always prefered the italian bit to the ballad of billy mcaw) and always prefered the london version of Mungojerrie.
have to wait to the 26th here for it to be released.
I think this will only happen if the movie were to become insanely popular. The change of making Victoria the central character is an interesting change, but probably done just to give the movie more of a plot. and for a show thats been running since 1980 in some form or another, it seems unlikely to change. I am also not sure how in the stage show it would be placing that new song right after the show's most famous song, it would totally kill the momentum at that point of the show.
also its more or less all about victoria and her perspective as an outsider being let into the tribe and learning all about the ball and what its all about, that why she is in almost every scene with each song.
its supposed to he after memory (so they have said) its more of a "at least you got a full life to look back on, i have nothing, but hope now that i have been accepted into the tribe i will male memories of my own."
Any ideas what this Magical Gus might be and why it would end up on this and not left to a possible extended edition later? it seems to be something instrumental (but not the Jellicle Ball)
as for the mashups, yes the term is new, and people have been combining songs forever, but in the movie its only really done once (elephant song) and in the show almost every song is a mashup
morosco said: "I wonder if they have made any CGI alterations to the physical appearance of the cats after hearing the public's response when the trailer came out months ago? CGI is expensive though isn't it? So maybe not. Maybe the producers are just accepting the fact that audiences will be underwhelmed and it'll quickly go to streaming channels."
There was changes seen in the last trailer though, but very minimal, so I suspect that is the extent of the
