macavity's not there!!!!

Yesterday we got lucky and found tickets to the last day of "Cats", brought to the Mullins Center by "Broadway In Amherst". We got grand seats, right up in the front and finally got to see Cats. Now I know what the fuss is all about. They are brilliant! I'm not going to go into raptures of description but it sufficeth to say that it was really thrilling and worth every dime (with student discount, hehe)!!

"Macavity" was by far the most enjoyable.. also coz of my vague recollection of the poem from a long long long time ago. I remember my brother memorizing and presenting the poem for an Elocution contest ages ago. :D

As for the cast, I think the most popular of all was Rum Tum Tugger.. and I came across a bit of trivia: "Andrew Lloyd Webber has stated that the part of the Tugger is intended to be a homage to Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. This homage is apparent in the way he moves on stage in the original Gillian Lynne choreography and the costume styling."

Grizabella the glamour cat's rendition of "Memory", before she is selected to "journey to the heavyside layer", was haunting. Betcha most of the audience were humming that tune when driving back home! :)

But I was humming this one...

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Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,
For he's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
You may meet him in a by-street, you may see him in the square -
But when a crime's discovered, then Macavity's not there!

He's outwardly respectable. (They say he cheats at cards.)
And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard's.
And when the larder's looted, or the jewel-case is rifled,
Or when the milk is missing, or another Peke's been stifled,
Or the greenhouse glass is broken, and the trellis past repair -
Ay, there's the wonder of the thing! Macavity's not there!

And when the Foreign Office find a Treaty's gone astray,
Or the Admiralty lose some plans and drawings by the way,
There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair -
But it's useless to investigate - Mcavity's not there!
And when the loss has been disclosed, the Secret Service say:
`It must have been Macavity!' - but he's a mile away.
You'll be sure to find him resting, or a-licking of his thumbs,
Or engaged in doing complicated long-division sums.

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I know I still owe you a description of the Kenneth Miller Lecture. ... maybe it'll happen, maybe not.. keep checking back. ;)