For as long as I've been alive, Cats has been a musical theater punchline. How it got there is easy: It's a show about cats. It features performers dressed as cats. They sing songs wherein no less than five percent of the lyrics to any one song are the word "cat." The joke isn't hidden or difficult to find, embedded somewhere deep in the show's DNA; it is in fact its most earnest, outward-facing layer. Cats was ridic…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 08:49PM on December 20, 2019