User:MaeliaC



French-speaking Belgian often in France, 30+ but still a teenager at heart, reads and writes in English and Italian but needs subtitles for their spoken forms, mostly likes French musicals but sometimes interested in others.

First impressions on Cats : To be honest, I wouldn't have wanted to go and see it if the French cast hadn't included dancers I knew from other shows (and that I called "ex-vampires" because two were in a French Dracula musical and three in the French production of Tanz der Vampire ). Then, after seeing it, I told a friend that half the songs were boring and the other half had the annoying tendency to stay stuck in my head (also, that the people who made the costumes obviously didn't know much about cats, or they wouldn't have put both black and red on about half the male cats' costumes, which is only slightly less of an aberration than the identical twins of different gender - not to mention all the things real cats would never be able to do, but at least that's because the story is based on poems that were aimed at children - so I concluded that they'd have to be an alien breed of cats, "which would explain the UFO-shaped thing they appear to worship" LOL ). But I loved the dancing (and was surprised to see that my favorite dancers somehow managed to look cute instead of ridiculous in a cat costume), so I wanted to see it again anyway. And now I'm used to the songs and attached to the cats - so much that I knitted plush versions of my favorites (I would have made more, but I really don't have enough space for about two dozens of cats, plush or not).

Favorite scenes: the Jellicle Ball dance, followed by the  Magical Mister Mistoffelees  number (Axel was just great as Misto - and I'm sure William was, too, but I only saw him once in that role - versus 9 times for Axel - and it was the first time, so I don't really remember), the Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer song (because Mungo was played by Stoyan, the dancer I most wanted to see again after the end of the previous season's show at Théatre Mogador), Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats (for the dancing, the fact that almost every cat has a solo line, and also just because it's a nice song) and the Rum Tum Tugger number (I know that many fans of the original version hate the "street cat" Tugger, but it's the only one I know, I thought it was fun even if I've never liked rap music at all, and Golan is another dancer I knew and liked before, so...).

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