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"Cats" and numbers

●More than 65 million people have watched the show

●Box office revenue Over ￡825 million

●Won 7 Tony Awards for Musicals

●Recorded 11 musical soundtracks in 8 languages

●At the same time 8 production companies are touring the show around the world

●Toured 150 cities around the world

●More than 170 singers have recorded the song "Memories"

●Used 40,136 condoms (used to protect microphones and attached to headgear)

●Took 159,000 aspirin

●Drinked 651 pounds of coffee

●Contained 179,712 lozenges

●Consumption of 1,248,000 pounds of dry ice

The bestseller of the musical "Cats", one of the four major musicals, is the result of a combination of multiple factors. It is wonderful There are many advantages, please read the following article

"Cats" is the most successful play in the history of musicals and once became synonymous with musicals. Created in 1981, the play is the longest-running musical in London and the longest-running musical in the history of American theater. It premiered on May 11, 1981 at the New London Theater in London's West End, with 8 performances per week, Mondays. After a break, it continued to perform until May 11, 2002, on its 21st birthday, at the same theater. "Cats" was performed in the United States for a total of 16 years and 2 months. The total revenue of this play alone exceeded 2 billion US dollars. By June 2000, when the show officially announced its suspension, it had already Performed more than 6,000 times around the world. The play is well-created and performed with superb performance. Each of the 36 actors has their own unique skills. The old cat Grizebella in the film is played by the familiar Jelena Page. She is called a British musical by some media. "First Lady".

Musical theater is a very young performing art. After nearly a hundred years of development, it has produced many works with different styles. "Cats" is a musical that is closer to the song and dance genre. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber adapted and composed the music based on the long poem "The Pretending Cat" by Nobel Prize winner TS Eliot. The story of "Cats" is very simple: The Jericho cat tribe holds a dance every year, and the cats will choose a cat to ascend to heaven at the annual grand party. As a result, all kinds of cats appeared on the stage one after another to express themselves to their heart's content. Finally, the cat Grizebella, who was once glorious back then but extremely slovenly today, moved all the cats present with his song "Memories" and became a cat that can ascend to heaven.

Character in "Cats": "Leader Cat". The leader of the cat tribe, full of wisdom and experience, must attend the annual cat meeting and finally decide which cat can ascend to heaven and be reborn; "Charming Cat", the representative of mature women in the play, at the climax of the dance party She is the lead dancer, and under the cyan-blue light, only her red fur is filled with warmth; "Charming Cat" was the most beautiful of the cat tribe when she was young. She was tired of the life of the cat tribe and went to work outside, but she tried After the harsh world, she was extremely ugly when she returned to the cat tribe - she looked the most like a human, with long hair shawl, wearing a black evening dress and a pair of high heels. The song "Memory" calmed down all the cats' hostility towards her and aroused deep sympathy and pity for her. There are also "Rich Cats", "Nanny Cats", "Theatre Cats", "Rock Cats", "Crime Cats", "Charming Cats", "Hero Cats", "Superman Cats", "Magic Cats", etc. This group of diverse, different and anthropomorphized cats make up the cat world. At the dance, they each showed their talents; singing, dancing or playing, they staged a soul-stirring "human tragedy and comedy", telling the theme of love and tolerance.

The dance and music in "Cats" are quite outstanding. In order to convey emotions, the directors did not hesitate to use a large number of dance scenes to express the different characteristics and personalities of the cats. There are both light and lively tap dance, solemn and gorgeous ballet, as well as dynamic jazz dance and modern dance. You can edit it however you want, without any limitations, be original and eclectic. Especially the ten-minute-long "Jerrick Ball" dance, the scene is grand and passionate, making people mesmerized to watch.

Like the dance, the music of "Cats" is very moving. The whole play lasts nearly three hours and consists of twenty pieces of music.

In addition to the dance music that matches different dance scenes, the theme song "Memories" that appears four times is a golden song that you can never tire of listening to. At first, on the eve of the premiere of "Cats", the director was still not satisfied with the music of the entire play, thinking that it lacked an emotional climax and a core aria. That night, Weber went home and thought hard all night, and finally wrote "Memories", which has since become one of the most popular songs in the world. The director recalled that the next morning, he (referring to Weber) said, "How about this?" At that time, we were having a meeting in the rehearsal room, and we played the music there. Then, I said to everyone: "Remember this day and this moment, because you have just heard a wonderful and extraordinary song." What's even more unique is that at that time, the song only had a melody and no lyrics. There were only a few days left before the performance. The director came to his house in the country and wrote the lyrics by himself: "It was late at night and the streets were filled with silence. The moon was looking for dreams, leaving behind a lonely figure... Memories are always there. Accompanied by the moonlight, only the beautiful scenery of the past in my dreams still shines brightly. Seeing the twilight in the east, I will welcome the rising sun and start a new life. "(Translated by Xue Fan) From then on, "Memories" spread all over the world. It has become a contemporary classic song and has been recorded more than 600 times and won multiple awards.

The stage of "Cats" is also very exciting. Its design concept is "the world seen through the eyes of a cat". The audience can see a garbage dump from their seat, with more than 1,500 toothpaste casings, broken dishes, bad credit cards, Coke cans, abandoned cars and other kinds of garbage piled on it, all enlarged to the size of a cat's eye. There is also a 5-ton overpass on the stage for cats to play up and down. During the performance, three staff members hide under the bridge to control the smoke, lights, and create "magic cats". The costumes in "Cats" are all designed according to the image characteristics of each cat. There are more than 250 sets, and the skin colors and fur patterns of cats of different ages and genders are realistically drawn on them. Each actor is drawn A cat face that matches its identity, coupled with more than 30 wigs of different colors and textures, vividly dress up cats with different personalities.