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Cats Tickets - Purring Into A Theater Near You This Year
Currently running at Los Angeles' historic Pantages Theater, Cats will close in late March 2010 after a month of performances only to open again in Boise, Idaho and Boston, Mass. by April. Recently celebrating its 27th anniversary, this award-winning play is doing more than just entertaining audiences all over the globe – it's helping to make a difference, too, in the world of felines.
With a name like "Cats," it seems fitting that this Tony Award-winning musical would adopt a philanthropic program that has to deal with the critter its story follows. In Seattle, the first 50 people who adopt a cat this March will get two free tickets to the March 31 performance of the show when it performs at the Comcast Arena in Everett. If you already have cats of your own but still want to celebrate one of Broadway's longest-running shows, pick up <a href="http://www.stubhub.com/cats-tickets/">Cats tickets</a> today from http://www.stubhub.com.
Apart from hitting Boise this year, for just one week this internationally respected and revolutionary show will visit Boston's Colonial Theater from April 13-18. The T.S. Eliot play, adapted for the stage with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, picked up the 1983 Best Musical Award at the Tony Awards, as well as Best Book of a Musical, Best Lighting and Best Costumes. The current national production is the only North American run performance sanctioned by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the famous English composer who has had his hand in everything from Sunset Boulevard to Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera and Evita.
Cats initially found success as a West End production and eventually turned into an international hit, carrying the tune as the first British play to invade Broadway. Its actors, who play cats dressed in full feline motif, must truly be triple threats, offering up the best dancing, acting and singing skills. Typically robed in full spandex costumes, the show's characters gather yearly to decide which cat will be reborn, and the final decision is made by Old Deuteronomy.
The play is most likely recognized for the Webber hit "Memory," which is sung by the lead female Grizabella the Glamour Cat. "[Webber's music] has that certain sound to it that's undeniable and very recognizable," Arizona Broadway Theater's Adam Berger said to Your West Valley. Berger, who has been a fan of the Webber production since he first saw it at age 12, brought the show to Arizona in February 2010, acting as the show's musical director. The success, even in its 27th year of national tours, is unprecedented – nearly every show has sold out since opening two months ago.
The national tour, which will continue to run through the summer and beyond, is produced by CATS-Eye, LLC. The original direction was done by Trevor Nunn with choreography by Gillian Lynne, and is based loosely on Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats." The show first opened at the New London Theater in the West End in May 1981, moving to Broadway in October 1982 after closing in Britain and earning the title of longest running show in British theater with over 3,000 performances. Currently celebrating 27 years of touring, the show has visited five continents and 26 countries and has been viewed by more than eight and a half million fans.
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