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Article: `Cats' puts a little spring into step of venerable Chanhassen.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 9, 2003
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Byline: Graydon Royce; Staff Writer
Wild cats prowl the aisles, stopping to pat heads and tap shoulders in frisky interaction with the audience. The spectators respond moments later with loud, rhythmic applause as power-pop musical cadences soar through the room.
Baby, this is not your father's Chanhassen Dinner Theatre.
With his staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Cats," director Michael Brindisi and his artistic staff have blown the doors off the venerable playhouse with a zesty, modern musical unlike anything the place has served up since Lloyd Webber's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" in 1983.
Brindisi, choreographer Michael Matthew Ferrell and ...