I like to give credit where it’s due, as well as making fun of the ridiculous, so here’s my ranking of the musical numbers in Cats from best to worst.
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Bay Area Musicals’ production of Violet is nicely cast, staged, and sung, but I never got pulled in emotionally to this story of a Southern girl with a scarred face.
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Glen Berger’s memoir of writing the libretto to the Spider-Man musical is the most page-turning, jaw-dropping, perversely fascinating book I’ve read in ages.
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Having just seen Sondheim rarity Saturday Night, I had to calculate how close I am to being a Sondheim completist.
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This is more than a curiosity for Sondheim fans. Its central premise – that young men come up with a lot of hare-brained schemes to pick up chicks and get rich quick – still rings true today.
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