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Article: Right up their alley; The hit Broadway musical "Cats" might have more than nine lives. Its latest reincarnation hits the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 26, 2003
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Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer
When "Cats" hit Broadway 21 years ago this month, critic Frank Rich purred that the fluffy Andrew Lloyd Webber spectacle "believes in purely theatrical magic, and on that faith it unquestionably delivers."
"Cats" enjoyed a record run before going to Broadway kitty heaven in 2000, and has packed countless roadhouses in national tours. In a third life, it is being offered to regional theaters, and Chanhassen Dinner Theatre is one of seven producers to get the rights. It opens Friday in previews.
It's not the slight poetry of T.S. Eliot, or the evanescent plot about a tribe of Jellicle cats that made this the ...