I love musical theatre. Not in the intense, passionate way that theatre students do – but as much as you’d expect from a person who spent most of their high school lunch breaks in a music classroom for lessons, practise and band. Cats doesn’t work as a movie though. It never was going to. It … Continue reading Cats: What a Cat-Astrophe
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