![]() Tom Hooper ("Les Miserables," " The King's Speech") has brought "Cats" to the screen, not doing much to it (what's to be done, really?), and over-producing much of it (the sets feel self-consciously referential, almost to the point of irony, but not quite). It was the second Broadway show I saw as a child), but obviously throngs of audiences have thrilled to it. The appeal of the show is somewhat mysterious to me (and I've seen it twice. After a triumphant run in London, it moved to Broadway, where it promptly smashed every record in the book, becoming the fourth-longest running show in Broadway history. How could you predict something like "Cats"' success? You couldn't. Andrew Lloyd Webber took these poems, wove them together loosely, initially envisioning it as a concert or a chamber piece.
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