Science save us: Bodies is abiding to Broadway this summer. The acclaimed Andrew Lloyd Webber agreeable that captivated New York City's Winter Garden Theatre earnest for 18 years and about 7,500 performances — the fourth-most in Broadway history — is application one of its nine lives to date a comeback.
The aboriginal Bodies awakening on Broadway back the show's Sept. 2000 closing will clearly accessible at the Neil Simon Theatre on Aug. 2, with previews starting on July 14. Trevor Nunn will acknowledgment to direct, while choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler — of Hamilton acclaim — will abject the new show's moves off the original. Also abiding abaft the scenes is John Napier, who won a Tony in 1982 for his costuming and breathtaking design.
Cats is based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which follows a association (yes, bodies are tribal) of Jellicle bodies on the acute night that they accomplish "the Jellicle choice." The called cat ascends to the Heaviside Layer (which is a absolute thing) and allotment in a new life.
The appearance is conceivably best accepted for Webber's agreeable numbers, a abstruse accumulation of camp titles like "The Rum Tum Tugger," "Shimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" and the ballsy "Mr. Mistoffelees". EW accurately refers to the aperture number, "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats," as "the best Broadway song anytime accounting about jellicle cats."
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