Episode 14 - CATS at the Pantages Theatre

WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.240 Well, how do you, folks, And good morning, afternoon, or 2 00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:14.039 evening, wherever and whenever you may be listening. My name is Tim and 3 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:18.960 welcome to One Day in so Cal. Whether you've lived here your entire life 4 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:23.239 or visiting from across the world, whether you only have one day in so 5 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:26.800 Cal or one month, I want to share some of the coolest, most 6 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.960 fun, and most unique things to do right here in southern California, whether 7 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:35.280 that's solo or with friends and family. So join me on my next adventure 8 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:47.399 and hopefully yours. Right now on One Day in so Cal, Welcome to 9 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:52.799 episode fourteen of the One Day in so Cal podcast. It's Friday, October 10 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:59.520 and I am recording from beautiful right with California. Visit me on the web 11 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.520 one day and social dot com one day at social dot com for the latest 12 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:08.640 episodes, travelog videos, interactive met social media links, and more. New 13 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:14.319 episodes of this podcast are at least every Friday morning. Now, let's get 14 00:01:14.359 --> 00:04:15.080 to this week's adventure than thank you, Yeah, you just heard the overture 15 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:18.759 of the hit Broadway show Cats. In this scene, the stage stays empty 16 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:23.680 and the cats will only start creeping out after the overture is completed and the 17 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:28.480 next song starts. So now that the cat is out of the bag. 18 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:32.720 This week I returned to Hollywood to visit the world famous Pantageous Theater for the 19 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:39.319 very first time. Pantageous was showing the Broadway musical Cats, and since Cats 20 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:43.160 is one of the really one of my favorite Broadway shows of all time, 21 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.240 I figured this was as good as any time to check out Pantagious. One 22 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:53.360 thing that amazes me here at episode fourteen is how many places, how many 23 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:57.160 how much stuff there is really to do here in Socale that I simply haven't 24 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:00.040 done yet. There's just so much to do here, and and they're better 25 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.199 be I guess considering the high cost of living to live here in the high 26 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:08.399 crime and everything else. Um, I guess we should get something back for 27 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:13.000 it. But um that all that aside. UM, I can't believe I've 28 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:16.319 never been to Pantageous yet, and it was just as awesome and exciting as 29 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:21.519 I was hoping it would be. UM. So throughout this episode, I 30 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:27.560 want to share some sound bites I recorded live. Actually, to be honest 31 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:31.399 with you here, I recorded this entire podcast already and I'm doing it again 32 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:36.680 because I was debating between either putting entire clips in this podcast or just partial 33 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:42.000 clips. In the end, I settled for partial audio clips with the performance 34 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:44.920 because I think a minute or two is enough to get a feel for it, 35 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:49.199 and simply hearing Kats on audio doesn't really do it justice. The exception 36 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:54.560 to that will be Memory sung by Grizzabella the Glamour Cat and Growl Tiger's Last 37 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:59.199 Stand. One cool aspect of this performance was the fact that this was the 38 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:02.680 first time I saw Broadway show with a live orchestra playing alongside the actors. 39 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:08.600 So there's just a lot of moving parts when that's going on, and it's 40 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.360 amazing to see it all come together. And and you know, a lot 41 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.959 of hard work went in the background before this came on stage. So I 42 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.759 don't think I'm gonna share audio for every scene of the entire show, but 43 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:26.079 I'll definitely share some of my favorite scenes, as I said, including Memory 44 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:29.480 by Grizabelle at the Glamour Cat towards the end. I know some of you 45 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.240 folks like listening to entire scenes, and some of you would rather I cut 46 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:38.439 them up into shorter scenes, So I think it's just gonna depend. Like 47 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.120 in the Hollywood bowl, I can do an entire scene. You've heard it 48 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.959 with the songs John Williams was performing, you know, or the Back to 49 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:46.639 the Future parts. You know, you've heard those scenes and we all love 50 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:53.000 those scenes, whether it's uh et or whether it's a scene from Back to 51 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.680 the Future. In this case, I know a lot of you have not 52 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:00.000 seen Cats, so UM in general, I think I think just getting a 53 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:03.120 minute or two of each little scene will give you enough to kind of get 54 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:06.120 a feel for what kind of cat they're singing about. You know, what's 55 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:10.879 his angle and uh if this might be something for you, which I hope 56 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:14.399 I can convince you at the end of this that it is. UM. 57 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.639 I will have the entire performance audio nonetheless on the video section of the podcast 58 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.240 website one Day and so cal dot com, as well as pictures of the 59 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:28.199 pantageous as always if interested. So let's get into how and why Cats became 60 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.120 a Broadway production in the first place, but up first as a short clip 61 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:34.879 of the old Gumby cat, who during the day seems like an older, 62 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:40.519 fat, lazy cat, but in reality she spends the entire night keeping house 63 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:43.839 for her owners and trying to civilize the mice and cockroaches that live there and 64 00:07:43.879 --> 00:08:07.680 run a muck. So here's the old gumby cat gonna be. I should 65 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:18.680 might her name Jenny and jaws for cools all the time, kindly and time 66 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:26.160 and shots and then when spots all day she says, being in the step 67 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:35.840 or on the steps or on the latch, she said, sassers so sis 68 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:46.720 and that's what makes her roll behind. That's what makes are about me caught 69 00:08:48.679 --> 00:09:03.960 that basis patty gun and I got t say shut the stars the best She 70 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:13.480 say nice and say your pass, but she trust not my text me to 71 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:26.639 say y. She happened a catch in bond. Her name is cha that 72 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:35.679 recording or she likes to watch and tie is you true? Saying not chs 73 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:45.639 so bona and don't see forre and we as soon and flat she says, 74 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:58.440 says ss. But that what makes a long a. That was me sa 75 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:15.320 he when he listen, that's where he say my sail and why she's short 76 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:26.200 and see it bas the top say want of the bay show, coping to 77 00:10:28.080 --> 00:11:22.639 shell Sosa se m. Now let's talk about the history of cats and the 78 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:28.120 production itself. In order to appreciate cats, you also you also need to 79 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.240 understand where the idea for this Broadway show came from in the first place. 80 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:35.759 Cats is based on a series of poems by British author T. S. 81 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:41.240 Elliott under his assumed name Old Possum, that he added at the end of 82 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:46.240 letters to his god children. These poems were collected and published in and the 83 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:52.159 children's books call a children's book called Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. In 84 00:11:52.279 --> 00:11:56.759 these poems, there's a series of extraordinary cats that performed jobs or complete tasks 85 00:11:56.039 --> 00:12:00.799 that are normally assigned to humans. There's the old gumby cat you just heard. 86 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:03.679 There's a theater cat that has performed incredible feats in the arts of theater. 87 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:07.240 There's a railway cat that ensures the train crew is keeping up with their 88 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:11.919 tasks and that the passengers are behaving and keeps mice off the train, and 89 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:18.600 more. British composer and musical theater impresario Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, a Phantom 90 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:24.000 of the Opera and Jesus Christ superstar musical compositional fame, then took the idea 91 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.480 and ran with it in his production of Cats. Today, Cats is a 92 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:35.840 standout, spectacular success. It's world box office grows, so over US two 93 00:12:35.879 --> 00:12:43.000 billion was made and it's the highest grossing musical in history at that time. 94 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:48.000 In the New York Post reported the musicals gross has had to reach three point 95 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.399 five billion. It's got to easily be at four billion at this point, 96 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:56.840 guys. Despite its long standing blockbuster success, Cats has a lot of controversy 97 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:03.039 associated with it, a lot of bad gets indeed. But first up next 98 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:07.159 is rum tug Tugger, the cat you love to hate, the one you 99 00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:09.840 know, the cat, the one that you can't decide, that can't decide 100 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.000 what side of the door it wants to be on, or the food that 101 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.759 you offer him. He doesn't want the food you don't offer him. He 102 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:20.960 does want He loves to be the center of attention. But despite all his 103 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:24.840 flaws, he is the bravest cat of the gelical tribe, even taken on 104 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:30.279 the main antagonist Cavity to defend his friends. Here's the rum tum Tugger. 105 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:11.799 There. You want grass in your back, smell time golf? Need to 106 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:37.759 shot by the cap when you don't want to go out, always the wrong 107 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:50.759 side of them? You like get I like by you? Plus I can't 108 00:14:50.799 --> 00:15:46.440 get out tis for you to do now when it comes to Broadway, A 109 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:54.159 few shows are a successful and strangely enough, as controversial as Cats. And 110 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.039 for those of you that haven't seen it, I don't mean there's a controversial 111 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:02.279 scenes or offensive things in the show, um, although some would argue otherwise. 112 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:07.879 I mean people just don't get it. They really really don't. I 113 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:11.600 think some folks are unfairly associated with the furry community, and nothing against those 114 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.120 folks in particular, but this has nothing to do with that. Then on 115 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:18.879 the other half, on the other end, half the people that give it 116 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:22.399 a try, I just don't understand what it's trying to do. Uh, 117 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:26.919 which is fair because I had the exact same experience the first time, and 118 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:29.879 uh, I pretty much swore up and down I'd never see that again. 119 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:36.240 But I would lump a lot of people pre judging Cats um with people that 120 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:40.399 saw the twenty nineteen movie and never saw the Broadway, which definitely doesn't do 121 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:45.960 the Broadway justice. Honestly, I think I think that is where most of 122 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:48.600 the hate for the show comes from. I we really do. And then 123 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.000 the rest of you probably just hate cats to prefer dogs. Admit it, 124 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:56.480 just kidding, but seriously, give cats a try. It's my favorite Broadway 125 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:00.039 show and the one I've watched most so far at four watches. But before 126 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:06.000 you do, let me explain how you're supposed to watch Cats first. I 127 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:07.599 know that kind of sounds strange. How are you supposed to watch a Broadway 128 00:17:07.640 --> 00:17:11.920 show? But there is a kind of I suppose a way to do it, 129 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:18.000 or a way to to interpret it. Um well, let me just 130 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:19.680 say this. The first time I ever heard there was a Broadway show called 131 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:26.039 Cats was in introduction to theater class at full Sturne College, all right around 132 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:30.440 or so. The first time I saw Cats proper was on a cruise in 133 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:37.359 January. I was on Norwegian Cruise Lines ship Epic for a seven day Western 134 00:17:37.519 --> 00:17:41.680 Caribbean cruise. I saw it on the program guide on a se day between 135 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.319 Cape Canaveral and Cozumel, and remember learning about it in college, so I 136 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:49.240 figured, what the hey? Why not? I still remember the intermission now. 137 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:53.920 I was headed to the bathroom and thinking this was one of the stupidest 138 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:59.680 Broadway performances I've ever seen. Andrew Lloyd Webber must have been high on narcotic 139 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.920 when you wrote this garbage. Why on earth did I bother to waste my 140 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:08.279 limited cruise time on this nonsense. And if this was the best Broadway has 141 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:12.839 to offer, you can count me out. I'm done. Where's the story? 142 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.920 Where's the protagonist? First the antagonist? Where's the tom cat going to 143 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.599 save the female cat from the pound? How is this leading to a happy 144 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:26.039 ending? A happy Disney ending? On the bathroom, washing my hands, 145 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:27.680 I remember hearing a kid, he must have been I don't know about ten 146 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:32.599 or so, complaining to his dad about the performance. He obviously wanted to 147 00:18:32.640 --> 00:18:37.960 go do something else, anything else, but Dad, I just don't get 148 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:41.240 it. And the dad said, look, you have to think about it 149 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:45.480 like a bunch of stories in one show. Each cat has their own story 150 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:48.680 and they're trying to tell it to everybody. As I was walking out, 151 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:51.680 I told the kid, laughing, don't worry man, how don't get it 152 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.359 either? And I was being truthful, but the dad's words stuck with me. 153 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:57.000 As I went back to my seat at the end of intermission, I 154 00:18:57.119 --> 00:19:02.119 kept thinking about that, um, it's a bunch of stories, and his 155 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:06.920 words of wisdom seeming true. I was trying to put this production together as 156 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:11.480 a single story, as the vast majority of stage performances are now. There 157 00:19:11.640 --> 00:19:15.559 is a loose story associated with the Broadway performance of Cats, specifically all the 158 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.359 cats meeting once a year and selecting a cat to go to the heavy Side 159 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:22.160 Layer where they will be reborn into whatever they wish to be, basically kind 160 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.359 of like a cat heaven. But the reality is each segment is a cat 161 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:30.960 trying to tell their story and background and what they do for the rest of 162 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.519 the year. Really, when they're not here once a year at the Jelical 163 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:40.319 Ball, this is the story of each amazing cat, and they definitely have 164 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:44.319 some stories to tell. Anyways, after the end of the show and back 165 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:48.079 to my cruise, I saw it performing again, you know, um one 166 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:51.200 more time later in the cruise. I saw it in the in the cruise 167 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:55.119 planner, and uh, I knew I wasn't gonna go waste my time watching 168 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:59.000 again, so I scratched that one off the planner and went about my cruise. 169 00:20:00.400 --> 00:20:03.400 But as the cruise went along over the coming days, I noticed something. 170 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:08.599 I was humming and whistling the songs constantly. Whether I was taking a 171 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:14.559 catamaran to Stingray City and grand came in to swim with Stingrays We're driving a 172 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:18.799 high powered mini speedboat and Cosumel are floating down the White River through a rainforest 173 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:22.880 and an inner tube in ot Rios. The song started chipping away at my 174 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:27.519 hardened faral heart, and on the second to last night of the cruise, 175 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:32.680 I convinced myself I would give it one more chance, and the rest, 176 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:36.839 as they say, is history for me. Anyways, it just clicked the 177 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:40.000 second time. I loved it, the whole thing, everything, the songs 178 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:42.559 of stories, Grizabella, sad Plight, and especially my favorite cat, skimble 179 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:47.880 Shakes the Railway Cat. I immediately downloaded the soundtrack after I got off the 180 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:49.599 ship, because you know how the WiFi used to be on those ships back 181 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:53.160 then, and I listened to it several times on my cross country drive from 182 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:59.759 back to Socale from Florida in my little Toyota priusc I still don't know why 183 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:03.599 the second time, but this kind of gave me a little less and hey, 184 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.599 you know, don't write things off immediately, give it a second chance, 185 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:11.000 give people a second chance, just like Vangelical Cats gave Grizabella the Glamor 186 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:15.720 Cat a second chance. And now it's it's up until this point, it's 187 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:19.079 my favorite Broadway show. I'm sure there's gonna be a Broadway I'm gonna see 188 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:22.599 later that that will finally top Cats. But at the moment, I don't 189 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:26.799 know what it is. Um. Yes, I am a cat lover, 190 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:29.759 as in, you know, I do have cats, and I love cats, 191 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:36.279 but um, I don't know. I I uh, it's just the 192 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:41.759 songs, the performance itself, um, the difference from it from traditional Broadway 193 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:45.799 shows. How you know, it's always a plot line and good and bad 194 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:49.519 and happy ending. It was just this. This has some of that, 195 00:21:49.720 --> 00:21:53.920 but mostly it's I just like the stories and a little uh, the little 196 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:59.359 tunes and the cats all dressed up dancing around and doing crazy things and uh 197 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:04.160 and um um, well let's get to the next cat. How about that? 198 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:07.920 The next cat is Buster for Jones, the rich and fat and nicely 199 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:12.400 dressed cat that loves to eat it the fine establishments in town and has a 200 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:18.000 taste for the finer things in life. He doesn't haunt pubs. He has 201 00:22:18.079 --> 00:22:22.720 eight or nine clubs for he used to St. James Street. Cat Um, 202 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.640 which I guess means I guess that's a nice neighborhood in London or something. 203 00:22:26.000 --> 00:23:03.920 But anyways, here's buster for Jonesy no commonly sells. Thats not construs 204 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:12.160 s say thet all a Daisy, the side of the mates, and air 205 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:22.559 fell alas and all less rather till not about fright, love and attempted life. 206 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:34.119 That in a season, all in a sum of lighting, my Prinson, 207 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:42.920 what unters can learn more? And just as all know, it's not 208 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:53.119 a hard to so for to drink out but rose when night you not very 209 00:23:55.039 --> 00:24:30.519 is probably creat that's the sims More coming right, all right, open up 210 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:36.359 that walle at nice and wide, lock, bust out that American Express card. 211 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:38.799 It's everywhere you want to be. Because if you are coming to see 212 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:44.279 Cats at Pantagious, or any show at this theater, you are gonna pay 213 00:24:44.359 --> 00:24:48.480 up. Since Pantagious is a premium Broadway experience, you can expect to pay 214 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:52.480 a decent price for the tickets based on a supply and demand for each show. 215 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:59.480 So I purchased my tickets through Ticketmaster. My seat was Orchestra left Row 216 00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:03.279 MS, seat three on four. My ticket came out to nine and eighty 217 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.240 cents. This includes ticket Masters order processing fee of four dollars and fifty five 218 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:15.599 cents. And they're outrageous service via fourteen dollars and cents in my humble First 219 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.400 Amendment protected opinion, of course, that's right. You can sit back down, 220 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:23.079 ticket Master lawyers. Uh Now, I know ticket Master is offering a 221 00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:27.559 service and has to make money, and I respect that, and they're going 222 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:32.160 to continue to raise prices because dopes like me keep buying from them. But 223 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:34.640 it still sucks to see that final grads hole at the end. That's much 224 00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:38.359 more than what it could have been. Ticketmaster might be the biggest name in 225 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:41.799 town, but it's not the only game in town. There are a ton 226 00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:45.839 of third party ticket sellers that will give you the same price um or I 227 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:48.200 should say, the same tickets for less. Some don't even have third party 228 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.240 fees. So if coming to see a show at Pantageous, make sure you 229 00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:55.319 do a Google search and check it out. And by third party ticket sellers, 230 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:59.839 I don't mean people in a trench coats standing you know, path of 231 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:04.240 lockdown from the theater looking back and forth for police. I mean you know, 232 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:10.079 uh, seet geek and just a ton of others. There's just a 233 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:14.680 ton that have popped up lately that cell tickets now, So do a little 234 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:18.319 search and try to comparacatrast and maybe save some money sys if you're bringing a 235 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:23.559 huge group. The next clip is a scene is the scene when Old Deuteronomy 236 00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:29.039 arrives. Old Deuteronomy is the leader of the jelical cats, and he's also 237 00:26:29.240 --> 00:26:32.680 very wise and the one that gets to choose which cat goes to the heavy 238 00:26:32.720 --> 00:26:36.880 side layer at the end. All the cats respect him very very deeply. 239 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:41.960 He also sympathizes for Grizabella from the get go, but chooses not to overturn 240 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:45.480 the will of the cats as a whole on this matter. By the way, 241 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:51.359 throughout this performance, Grizabella comes out twice before the end and basically tries 242 00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:53.359 to get repentance and tries to get accepted back into the fold, but the 243 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:59.200 cat's rejector. Some of the younger cats phil sympathies for her as well and 244 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:02.160 try to approach her, but the other cats block their path and tell him 245 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:07.279 no. And um. Unfortunately it's not really shown why um. That's one 246 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:11.839 of the mysterious of cats, one of the many um why the why the 247 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:17.400 cats rejected her in the first place, But they have and she's that outcast 248 00:27:17.519 --> 00:28:00.119 unfortunately, at least throughout mostly a performance, so here's old Deuteronomy, m 249 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:19.480 face, I feel yes, the ball all my game on f f a 250 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:41.559 mass by drawn me thet long time he's at canted to house money extensis ship 251 00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:52.359 spain as sin low and pain the skin line a long while before matring us 252 00:28:52.839 --> 00:29:03.079 at session. All chronomy is very nice, wave and more. I am 253 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:11.880 tempting to say in ninety nine and the few worrius progeny prospers and drives, 254 00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:21.240 and the lid just brought up its declined, and the size all that I'm 255 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:29.519 glad to say that place beyond me when he sends in the size of the 256 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:52.319 oldest in at change, well case me yes, no, my mine to 257 00:29:52.880 --> 00:30:47.599 wander must cry kindness, I mean sold tis yes soss s has I be 258 00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:29.319 all right? Let's talk about the pantage with itself now, because most of 259 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:32.319 the listening, most of you that are listening to this are not gonna be 260 00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:37.400 coming to see cats necessarily. Most likely you're gonna be coming if you're going 261 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.559 to pantageous to see another show. And I want to share a little bit 262 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.319 about what the theater experience is like. And maybe it's just a bit about 263 00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:48.880 the history of the theater itself. Uh So Anyways, now Pantageous has been 264 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:53.400 in Hollywood, and it's really a Hollywood Legends at first open in located right 265 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.920 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has a palatial Art Deco theme. And 266 00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:01.839 see it's two thousand seven and three people. I've been to many Broadway style 267 00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:07.759 shows in Socale, from college to the small theater troupe um, but I 268 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:10.240 have never seen anything that went toe to toe with New York Broadway like this 269 00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:15.359 place did. As you know, I've seen Cats many times, but this 270 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:19.200 was the best performance yet outside the fact they skipped the growl tiger scene, 271 00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:23.720 which is obviously obviously due to cultural sensitivity reasons. Um. Besides that, 272 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:29.400 nonetheless, these were top of the line actors, which shouldn't be surprising considering 273 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:34.119 how many actors live right here in SoCal. When the Great Depression started, 274 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.000 Pantagious was forced to adapt, start showing traditional movies over a projector as a 275 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.400 way to survive, and then from there things started going up. And I 276 00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:46.599 think four Academy Awards performed here, and this theater is absolutely the peak of 277 00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:52.400 today in New York Broadway style performances here in SOCl. In my humble opinion, 278 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:57.279 if you have a Broadway favorite Broadway style show, It's probably been here 279 00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.640 at Pantageous and will be again each year. There are multip shows that are 280 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.839 performed here, everything from Wizard of Oz to phouandom of the operat of Frozen. 281 00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:09.119 As you walk up into the Pantageous Um, you immediately feel like you've 282 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:14.759 been transported to nineties Hollywood. The art deco, glamour, the glitz of 283 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:19.200 them thirties and forties just completely envelops you. The huge fourier has two grand 284 00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:22.200 staircases to the left and right, which will transport you to the balcony. 285 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:25.680 This is the most beautiful theater I've ever walked into thus far, both stage 286 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:30.680 and film, and that includes theaters I've been to in New York. Once 287 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:32.039 you get to the door leading down to the aisle to your seat, the 288 00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:36.880 staff will point you in the right direction, but aren't really gonna show you 289 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:38.880 to your seat. There's just too many people and two few staff. From 290 00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:45.440 like Episode eleven at the California Theater in Samarandino. Um. At that theater, 291 00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:47.359 I was actually led to my seat by and not shore, but here 292 00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:52.039 they're just like, yeah, it's halfway down that way, so um not 293 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:57.400 my first time. I'm gonna interact with staff in a somewhat negative way. 294 00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:00.279 More on that later, but the art deck of theme continues into the main 295 00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:04.799 audience seating area, and this is probably the biggest theater I've been to outside 296 00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:09.320 the hYP period at Disney's California Adventure. So we skip ahead here to the 297 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:13.480 start of Act two, when Gus, the theater cat is let out by 298 00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:17.440 a kind and caring fellow gelical cat Um the meter I think or no, 299 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:23.239 gosh, which one was it? Um? Her name starts with a J. 300 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:28.039 But anyways, he's let out by one of one of his fellow cats, 301 00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:30.840 who kind of acts like his caretaker a little bit, because Gus is 302 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:35.840 an acting legend in the cat world, having taken part in many spectacular performances, 303 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:40.159 but he's showing his age now and essentially retired from acting, probably forced 304 00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:45.840 retired because he suffers from policy, which he kind of shakes from. But 305 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:49.440 he loves to regale you with his stories on the stage if you buy him 306 00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:53.920 a beer. Now. The original and best, in my opinion version of 307 00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:59.360 Cats plays Growl Tiger's Last Stand, which is Gus telling the story of when 308 00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:04.519 he played the pirate feline Growl Tiger, but instead of him sitting there telling 309 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:09.400 you it, it's basically acted out for you to view. UM. This 310 00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:14.639 scene of the original Cat Show is the most controversial of the entire production, 311 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:20.360 specifically because it talks about Persian as signed these cats and allegedly uses offensive accents 312 00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:27.079 to portray those cats. Uh, basically like an Asian accent, heavy Asian 313 00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:31.159 accent. I will not support council culture of any kind, not my personal 314 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:37.000 life, and not on this podcast. And that includes stuff like Cuckleberry Finn 315 00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:43.119 or just just other great works of art that are not trying to be offensive. 316 00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.360 They're just you know, they're from a different time, even one was 317 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:51.239 a different time. And I don't think it should be censored personally, but 318 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.880 obviously UH the Pantageous disagrees. UM. But in any case, Cats was 319 00:35:55.960 --> 00:36:00.400 meant to show the entire Growl Tiger seeming full and I will play at here 320 00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:05.719 um as opposed to the less impressive scene that they showed. And this scene, 321 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:09.480 Growl Tiger is visited by the beautiful grittle Bone while he is seen him 322 00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:15.440 and dancing with grittle Bone a and he basically tells his uh, his crew 323 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:17.039 to take a hike so he can just spend time with grit old Bone alone. 324 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:22.320 A rival Siamese pirate group surrounds him, and in the end griddle Bone 325 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:28.239 runs off terrified and the Siamese gang makes Growl Tiger walk the plank to his 326 00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:31.000 death. I will upload an example of this entire scene on my video section 327 00:36:31.119 --> 00:36:36.039 of this podcast website one day at social dot com, as well as you 328 00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:38.360 care to see it. In any case, this is the longest audio clip 329 00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:40.559 on this episode, and I hope you enjoy it, but as always, 330 00:36:40.679 --> 00:36:44.639 nothing beats going to see it in person. Take it away, Gus, 331 00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:36.960 because he's the cat at the theater tour. His name, as I ought 332 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:45.639 to have told you before, he's really Asparagus, but that's such a us 333 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:54.840 to pronounce that we usually call him just us. He's caught very shabby. 334 00:37:55.559 --> 00:38:01.920 He's thin as a rake, and he suffered hers from palsy that makes his 335 00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:08.719 plush shake. Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats, 336 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:16.960 but no longer a terror to mice and two rats. For he isn't that 337 00:38:17.280 --> 00:38:23.639 cat that he was in his prime who his name was quite famous, he 338 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:30.559 says in his time, and whenever he joins his friends at Bear Club, 339 00:38:31.119 --> 00:38:38.800 which takes place at the back of the neighboring pub. He loves to regale 340 00:38:38.920 --> 00:38:46.599 them. Someone else pays c the anecdotes drawn from his call me his stays, 341 00:38:47.239 --> 00:38:53.320 for he once was a star of the highest degery. He has acted 342 00:38:53.639 --> 00:39:01.000 with Irving, He's acted with Tree, and he likes to relate his success 343 00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:09.679 on the holes where the calor once gave him seven cat calls. But his 344 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:20.280 grandest creation, as he loves to tell it, was fire for our fiddle, 345 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:43.119 the fiend of the fair. I have played in my time every passha 346 00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:52.719 bull a plot, and I used to know seventy speeches by heart. I'd 347 00:39:52.800 --> 00:40:00.559 extend poor rise back chat. I knew how to gag, and I knew 348 00:40:00.679 --> 00:40:16.400 how to let the cat out of the bank. I knew how to act 349 00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:23.480 with my black and my tail. With an hour of a rehearsal, I 350 00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:34.639 never could fail in a voice that would often the hardest of hearts, whether 351 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:44.000 I took the lead or in character parts. I have a slat pie the 352 00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:52.360 bedside of poor little Knell. When the curfew was wrong, then eyes swaman 353 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:59.000 the bell in the pantom my season. I never fell flat, and I 354 00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:09.960 once under studied Dick Quittington's cat. That's my grandest creation, as history will 355 00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:29.599 tell, was Fine off Raw Fiddle, the of the fair. Then if 356 00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:34.639 someone will give him a toothful of jin, he will tell how he once 357 00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:39.400 played a part in East Lynne as a Shakespeare performance. He once walked on 358 00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:46.280 pat when some actors suggested the needful. And I say, now, these 359 00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:53.000 kittens, they do not get trained as we did in the days when VICTORII 360 00:41:53.679 --> 00:42:00.000 are reined. They never get drilled in the rank you la troupe, and 361 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:07.039 they think they are smart just to jump through a whoop. And he says, 362 00:42:07.280 --> 00:42:15.639 as he scratches himself with his claws, the theater is certainly not what 363 00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:23.519 it was. These modern productions are all very well, but there's nothing to 364 00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:38.679 equal from what I hear tell that moment of mystery when I made history as 365 00:42:39.000 --> 00:43:20.440 fine of all Fiddle Fair. I once crossed the stage on a telegraph wire 366 00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:28.960 to rescue child when a house was on fire. And I think that I 367 00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:38.239 still can much better than the most produce blood curdling noises to bring on the 368 00:43:38.400 --> 00:44:17.599 ghost. Ah. And I once played growl Tiger, could do it talk 369 00:44:17.599 --> 00:45:00.440 again, could do it talk? And call to Talkain Casager was a bravo 370 00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:05.119 catch who traveled on a barge. In fact, he was the roughest can 371 00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:12.719 that ever on that large from reason to upfurdly psut his he blames rejoicing in 372 00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:22.559 his title of terror off the tents. His man rend appearance did not calculate 373 00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:27.119 to please. His coat was torn and ced. He was baggy at the 374 00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:31.280 news one here was somewhat missing, No need to tell you why. And 375 00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:39.559 he scowled up on a hostile world from one forbidding night, hide you something 376 00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:45.800 off his same as almost hid the money be bothered as his name. He 377 00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:52.960 would wash by the handhouse, look up the cities. When the rumor ran 378 00:45:52.079 --> 00:46:01.639 along the shore of tigers on the loose, well to the weekendery that bladdered 379 00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:07.079 from its case. Won't you the papper pecan needs that baseball tiger's rage, 380 00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:14.360 wont to the bristly bandicoot that lurks on foreign ships and won't do any cat 381 00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:21.400 with whom row tiger came to grand for most of castle foreign racist hand in 382 00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:30.159 loud to castle for any name and race was aloud the version and the sionis 383 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:51.960 regarding every because it was a siony that mort no piece of southern nice own 384 00:46:52.119 --> 00:47:00.599 nature seemed that lay the tender moon was shining right the hartzy all in the 385 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:09.119 body moonlight, and lay rocking on the side. Last tiger was disposed to 386 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:59.119 show. He sent to mental side, keep me so clean in the four 387 00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:07.159 peak of that's the whole crowd tigers concentrating my attention on the lady grittle burn, 388 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:13.440 while my wrath is creul waschlape in their perils and their bunks, as 389 00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:21.199 they say, and easy creeping in. Little tiger had no iron here for 390 00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:28.440 roll, and the lady seemed in laptured by my manly, bonly tone, 391 00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:36.960 disposed relaxing, and the waiting, nor the birds and the inflected from the 392 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:47.119 house and deadly eyes and lost something and yet only endy there was not theself 393 00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:54.519 something to seemportant for love. Guys, And I say, then, as 394 00:48:54.719 --> 00:49:19.880 you went in danger not happy, thenty to start a lord k la natura 395 00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:30.800 and pa lawful god la fresco rochava. It's blendae marcharity, luona sopra lave 396 00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:50.239 its aora say, Harry, you're gonna be on the cora. Oh she 397 00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:58.679 lave me, she lends you nele bento profermato tell them I dell not feel 398 00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:07.599 you, said nomentic loto in quill that's happy, do not catch quick to 399 00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:17.480 all s con top or helped up and even to something. Then the top 400 00:50:30.880 --> 00:51:29.079 oh to see land event a mentelto to be on Inquire why then Gidneys gave 401 00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:34.800 the signal to his fierce Mongolian hard with a factfully burst of firewax. The 402 00:51:34.960 --> 00:51:40.599 same he swarmed a bad abandoning their sandpans, their polowais and janks. They 403 00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:46.760 battoned down the hatchets on the coop within their banks. Then Gelbon she gave 404 00:51:46.840 --> 00:51:52.199 a speech before she was badly skiing and sorry to admit it, but she 405 00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:59.679 quickly disappeared. She probably escaped with these I'm sure she was not drowned. 406 00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:12.239 That scessay thing U flashing steel How ti I did ses all was in sound 407 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:22.440 back on Clowe Tiker to his past prize force force to plock to park. 408 00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:43.119 It just has to to as his place was clost to gold. That was 409 00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:51.719 so when the through the lad I can't play that when he was starting on 410 00:52:52.000 --> 00:53:32.360 the side for sit holy paces and Victoria talk and you sellation was so h 411 00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:15.320 These more done. Productions are all very well, but there's nothing too equal. 412 00:54:16.519 --> 00:54:57.400 From what I hear that moment of mystery when I mais h All right, 413 00:54:57.480 --> 00:55:00.480 let's talk about how you're going to park when coming to see a show 414 00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:04.400 at Pentageous. Parking is and always will be a nightmare. In the big 415 00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:08.159 city, especially l A and especially Hollywood, there are just too many cars 416 00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:12.679 and not as cheaper free places to park. The truth is, however, 417 00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:16.320 there is plenty of places to park in Hollywood and Socale overall, if you're 418 00:55:16.360 --> 00:55:21.280 willing to pony up the money. As explained an episode three of this podcast 419 00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:24.519 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, parking is tough here. There is some 420 00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:28.960 street parking, but most of it is a red zone or loading zone that 421 00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:32.440 the tour companies use. In addition, city parking is generally two hours. 422 00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:37.320 Unless you want to run out during intermission to add time to the meter and 423 00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:40.360 hope you make it back in time. Your best bet is to pay for 424 00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:45.960 a parking garage. The part the lot I parked at is across the street. 425 00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:52.400 Um really, I guess kind of diagonally across the street from the Pentageous. 426 00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:55.320 As usual, I use the spot hero app and paid a solid twenty 427 00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:59.760 four dollars to park for a couple of hours. That's a pretty stiff price, 428 00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:04.079 but I couldn't beat the location. There are several garages and lots around 429 00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:07.639 the pantagies, so feel free to shop around for the best price, including 430 00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:10.800 that eleven dollar parking space that's at the complete other end of the Hollywood Walk 431 00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:15.039 of Fame. But that would have resulted in probably five minute walk for me 432 00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:20.719 and Grant. I need the exercise, but I was running just a bit 433 00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:23.320 late for the show and didn't want to risk it, so I decided just 434 00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:29.039 to go and pay up. There are several garages and lots around the pantages, 435 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:31.079 so like I said, feel free to shop around. The closer you 436 00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:34.360 get the pantages on the day of the show, though, the more you're 437 00:56:34.440 --> 00:56:37.880 going to be expected to pay. That's just supplying demand. That's just capitalism. 438 00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:43.039 That's just how it works. Uh. Now back to the show here. 439 00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:45.880 My favorite cat, given his job in the cat world, is skinble 440 00:56:45.920 --> 00:56:51.119 Shakes, the railway cat. You guys know I love trains, so skimble 441 00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:53.440 Shakes serves on the Northern Mill, which was a nightly rail service, presumably 442 00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:59.360 to Scotland from England. Skinball Shakes is a bit of a meticulous and uh 443 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:05.639 of a control freak, honestly and and uh nonetheless, he's a figure of 444 00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:10.559 great importance on the trains operation itself, so much so that the train crew 445 00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:15.920 will absolutely not leave without him. If they're ready to depart and he's not 446 00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:19.639 there, that train ain't going anywhere. He's almost become like a good luck 447 00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:22.239 charm, I guess. But any case, skimble Shakes frequently looks in on 448 00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:27.400 the passengers and crew to ensure the train is operating smoothly. Here's skimble Shakes, 449 00:57:27.440 --> 00:58:02.960 the railway cat a lot to all the quarters and the station as the 450 00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:09.800 thought for research she and below says, people still the price he's found in 451 00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:15.800 the open. The night fan just can't how you let more teaching with the 452 00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:22.719 single word and the asters of frantice. In my mind, that's why the 453 00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:32.159 mute you're looking crazy and no one to tea day one last the last day 454 00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:53.079 the singles allay he got least the nonart pars pull the cord sas s the 455 00:58:53.199 --> 00:59:00.440 fighting march people. You want a charge on the set car express, all 456 00:59:00.519 --> 00:59:06.719 the tiber and the doors. I'm got to playing our time super bob less 457 00:59:07.039 --> 00:59:23.679 as saying all the time he say so yet it's all they didn't have the 458 00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:38.599 second that it is I bass I let say a play all thanks ms, 459 00:59:39.400 --> 00:59:52.840 I don't have t god so that god sasa. It was very pleasant, 460 00:59:52.920 --> 01:00:00.800 but they felt there and mix say the name raising a st very neat and 461 01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:06.639 tiny wat and the sheet not just spending us to the gold. There was 462 01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:12.519 slight the big dog right and I'm watching people to everything. I do that 463 01:00:13.320 --> 01:00:16.960 and I'm funny and facing the Christus shore, facing the great to shut the 464 01:00:17.159 --> 01:00:24.000 indo se bach is plugly and we're that's very prudy day. I don't arm 465 01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:31.639 and say when my ailing him great thing like him were stample won't let anything 466 01:00:31.880 --> 01:00:51.199 the way and Sunday that's good to say no anybody mother my baby day a 467 01:00:52.880 --> 01:01:24.599 day. That guy's not ground at night Figer song u n after doing turn 468 01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:30.679 up the proper statalized people to watch the only stop here and very much of 469 01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:43.639 je PEPs the sleepers open conversation sells is halil. I had the station. 470 01:01:43.800 --> 01:01:49.599 After win they went to the aft breeze. We saw the noos. There 471 01:01:49.719 --> 01:02:59.639 was a they o no go by a little bit about food now I saw 472 01:02:59.760 --> 01:03:02.719 it. Total of three refreshment stands here. There's the main one in the 473 01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:07.599 in the main lobby, which mainly sold snacks and soft drinks. Then there's 474 01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:13.960 two on the second floor on each side of the staircase, and they mainly 475 01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:16.000 sold alcohol in a bar fashion, but they also had a few snacks. 476 01:03:17.400 --> 01:03:21.119 The ones on the second floor have a much smaller line, so if you're 477 01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:23.320 running out of the theater during intermission and the lines look long and scary, 478 01:03:23.400 --> 01:03:29.159 which they will be, try going upstairs to quench your thirst or grab a 479 01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:34.079 snack. It'll probably be faster. I did not buy anything here for this 480 01:03:34.199 --> 01:03:37.039 event. I elected to have a nice lunch and go to a dinner after 481 01:03:37.119 --> 01:03:42.360 the show. The only thing I tempted to buy during intermission was a water 482 01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:45.760 at one of the bars on the second floor, and crazy enough, the 483 01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:50.320 bartenderges gave the bottle for a charge, so I gave him a decent tip. 484 01:03:51.840 --> 01:03:55.000 Now back to the show. So when Cats mac Cavity is the only 485 01:03:55.079 --> 01:04:00.599 real antagonist of the show. Throughout the performance, Macavity makes seven attempts to 486 01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:03.920 scare off the tribe, to which someone will exclaim the Cavity as the cats 487 01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:08.480 look around and move around, terrified, sometimes hiding. At one point, 488 01:04:08.519 --> 01:04:11.679 Old Deuteronomy has even gotta like get you know, get your butts back out 489 01:04:11.719 --> 01:04:15.039 here. The ball is not over yet, uh in a very very tactful, 490 01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:18.519 nice way, of course. But this culminates in mccavity eventually actually showing 491 01:04:18.639 --> 01:04:25.760 up and kidnapping Old deuteronomy Um. A few moments later, Old Deuonomy reappears 492 01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:30.119 safe and sound, but one of the cats realizes, you know, it's 493 01:04:30.159 --> 01:04:33.159 a fake, and they take off the costume and in reality it's mccavity and 494 01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:38.079 disguises Old Deuteronomy. The other cats run in terror, but as I told 495 01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:41.679 you earlier, run tug Tugger has had enough of this bs and gets into 496 01:04:41.719 --> 01:04:45.840 a fight with mccavity and eventually successfully fends him off. Here are the female 497 01:04:45.920 --> 01:05:59.679 protagonists telling you the story of mccavity. M m M m m M Season 498 01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:06.440 a stray Cats. She's called the hand call for he's the master. You 499 01:06:06.679 --> 01:06:13.320 can't be by the law. He's the lot and the scot. The yard 500 01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:49.280 fly was fair to see the cop the chat. He's no say yatravity which 501 01:06:49.400 --> 01:06:56.800 all the like quick Avity, He's ever she can lave. He places the 502 01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:08.599 loves, his eyes at s and making ship which the scene of kind charity 503 01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:21.280 is not there, will seeking him in the basement. He the year not 504 01:07:23.079 --> 01:07:41.840 time mont once again machuityes and change songfore his sis option. His crown is 505 01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:47.000 steep beled. What his head, his hide with joe, his coat is 506 01:07:47.239 --> 01:07:55.039 dusty, blowing net, his whistle a love. He sweeze his head from 507 01:07:55.159 --> 01:08:09.320 side to sign. The woman has little he's he's always looks. So while 508 01:08:09.400 --> 01:08:20.920 I lays, he tak me like chi in a by street. You say 509 01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:34.760 a problem. The cavity is not there. He's awa man. I know 510 01:08:35.960 --> 01:08:50.800 he cheats at cards. I just WoT prints a recluse of Scott the jolt 511 01:08:54.159 --> 01:09:10.479 and will more the jo cans or random same bass is a little kid and 512 01:09:11.079 --> 01:09:42.159 just play someone off the the cavities not fairs and say go to sa teach 513 01:09:42.279 --> 01:09:48.840 took places the catchets listen fair and they say that all the casus because he's 514 01:09:48.880 --> 01:10:02.279 a b I touch Mama Jack, I'm attention criddle b born antients which alsize 515 01:10:03.000 --> 01:10:58.960 just control se are perishes at h house. He's see sorrytality mysy so nothing 516 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:04.520 yea, let's talk about the kiddos. Now, I had a family with 517 01:11:04.640 --> 01:11:11.840 two young kids sitting directly behind me. The kids love the anamorphic actors um 518 01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:15.720 on stage portraying cats, and we're constantly giggling at their antics, which I 519 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:19.720 kind of had to smile at. But nothing ruins a moment in Broadway performance 520 01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:25.720 like someone right behind you just talking and talking and talking. And these kids 521 01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:30.279 were allowed and noisy and distracting and talking. I think their parents told him 522 01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:33.760 once or twice to be quiet and then just gave up. Now, luckily 523 01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:38.319 for me, I've seen the show a couple of times, and I could 524 01:11:38.319 --> 01:11:42.319 appreciate the show and understand what was going on and didn't have to like focus 525 01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:45.279 on it. So you know, that was okay. But you know, 526 01:11:45.399 --> 01:11:49.359 keep your kids quiet, folks, you know, just respectful. You can 527 01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:53.800 be the judge of your keep your children your kids and know if you know 528 01:11:54.079 --> 01:11:57.439 they're mature enough to come and see a Broadway show. Um, I know 529 01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:00.680 you want to get them interested in early and all that, but you know, 530 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:02.199 either give them a little breaks in the four yer if you have to, 531 01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:06.920 in the in the lobby, or um we tell it a little bit 532 01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:11.439 older. These kids are like six or seven, so they watched, they 533 01:12:11.479 --> 01:12:15.520 love watching the cats, and we're asking questions. They weren't necessarily being rude 534 01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:16.920 on purpose. You know, there were a lot of times asking like what's 535 01:12:16.960 --> 01:12:20.039 going on? Or um kind of like I was the first time I saw 536 01:12:20.119 --> 01:12:24.560 cats but in my head? Uh, but also or just like is that 537 01:12:25.239 --> 01:12:28.600 you know? Is that the leader cat? Um? How does a cat? 538 01:12:29.479 --> 01:12:31.840 How does a cat get on a train? All kinds of weird questions 539 01:12:31.880 --> 01:12:35.399 that I'm just like halfway laughing and half like halfway like, you know, 540 01:12:35.479 --> 01:12:39.760 hey, quiet down, I'm trying to watch the show. But nonetheless, 541 01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:43.960 I think most kids will love to watch cats dancing around and singing and acting 542 01:12:44.039 --> 01:12:48.880 and doing acrobats and and acting like people and everything else. So uh, 543 01:12:49.159 --> 01:12:53.720 back to the play. Here to the performance. Now, as far as 544 01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:57.960 the uh, as far as this goes with old Deuteronomy gone, the cats 545 01:12:58.000 --> 01:13:00.079 are desperate to bring back their leaders, so he could select one of them 546 01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.439 to go to the heavy side, layer one of the cats. It's the 547 01:13:03.520 --> 01:13:09.039 idea to get Mr Mustopoles, a magician cat, to bring him back with 548 01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:16.520 magic, to which he successfully does so without further ado. Here's Mr must 549 01:13:16.560 --> 01:13:33.000 Apples, the original conjuring cat. You ought to ask magical Miss mustopol the 550 01:13:33.119 --> 01:13:44.279 original coring cats that please listen to me, and all inventions are his own. 551 01:13:44.600 --> 01:13:55.319 That there's stropolis. He holds all perhaps monopolies for performing surprising inclusions and 552 01:13:55.640 --> 01:14:05.800 creating eccentric confusion. The greatest positions have so many time from missing misstay call 553 01:14:06.079 --> 01:14:15.800 during a time and you'll all say, oh, I had the monster castle 554 01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:26.000 plimmer as manity costs. That's white, his small, he's black from his 555 01:14:26.079 --> 01:14:30.600 knees, in the tip of his teel. He can turn, he's crack. 556 01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:34.560 He could walk on the narrow whisper. He could packet any card from 557 01:14:34.600 --> 01:14:40.439 a hat. He is equally calling with the dice. He is always the 558 01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:44.960 same hum into the living that he is all the arty for a nice he 559 01:14:45.119 --> 01:14:50.479 can play that course a bit of miss day. Think you're up for a 560 01:14:50.640 --> 01:14:56.760 time to time and you think it's weary, Miss lace, you have seen 561 01:14:56.960 --> 01:15:01.680 more woman, and then it's gone. Why did next week flame out? 562 01:15:02.039 --> 01:15:35.720 All I never loved so sinking you would think them so by shots hurt, 563 01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:46.319 a w come, the blood comes wegger than a bout about And I say 564 01:15:46.520 --> 01:15:59.319 hear that so like bird conte from other sport well, and then all all 565 01:16:49.479 --> 01:16:54.199 so a few downsides to my trip to the Pantages, because, as you 566 01:16:54.279 --> 01:16:57.159 know on this podcast, I want you to have maximum value for your money, 567 01:16:57.800 --> 01:17:00.760 and I'm not afraid to show the some of the negative sides of attractions. 568 01:17:01.880 --> 01:17:05.800 Um definitely not here to paint a happy rainbow of so cal You know, 569 01:17:05.920 --> 01:17:09.760 we do have our problems and some of these attractions do have some ways 570 01:17:09.800 --> 01:17:15.520 to improve, and that includes Pantageous. So I only had really two complaints. 571 01:17:15.720 --> 01:17:19.760 My main complaint was their decision to skip Growl Tigers Last Stand. Um 572 01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:26.640 that is just probably the best scene in Cats in my opinion, and the 573 01:17:26.760 --> 01:17:31.479 fact that yes there's Siamese cats, and yes they're they're in heavy accent, 574 01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:35.520 you know, speaking like an Asian kind of style accent. Um. So 575 01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:41.560 what you know, it's it's a play. You know. If that offends 576 01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:44.520 you, then you know, I don't tell you. But in any case, 577 01:17:44.560 --> 01:17:49.359 they decided to cut that out and what they played and instead was you 578 01:17:49.479 --> 01:17:53.960 know, less than stellar, and I was just not impressed. And I 579 01:17:54.039 --> 01:17:57.800 wasn't impressed not because they skiped aloud Growl Tigers Last dand but it's just it 580 01:17:57.920 --> 01:18:01.960 doesn't do uh gust the theater at any justice at all his growl. Tiger's 581 01:18:02.039 --> 01:18:06.720 Last nap performance is just amazing. But in any case, one other thing 582 01:18:06.840 --> 01:18:10.720 that I had that kind of irked me a little bit at the end. 583 01:18:11.640 --> 01:18:16.399 Let me start by prefacing by saying this, I completely understand and completely agree 584 01:18:18.359 --> 01:18:24.960 that recording or taking pictures is not permitted during a performance like this, during 585 01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:29.960 really any Broadway. But up until this point, I have always been able 586 01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:33.960 to take photos at the very very end during encore. That's the part where 587 01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:38.960 all the characters are coming out and waving and bowing and saying goodbye, and 588 01:18:39.159 --> 01:18:42.079 the fans are cheering as each one comes out. You know, they really 589 01:18:42.279 --> 01:18:46.439 like, we really love that scene. Everybody cheers louder and um. And 590 01:18:46.720 --> 01:18:51.199 I've been able to do take photos at every performance at the end, from 591 01:18:51.560 --> 01:18:58.079 New York Broadway to college you know stage performance. Well, that wasn't the 592 01:18:58.119 --> 01:19:00.960 case here the moment I popped up my phone and started to try to take 593 01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:03.640 a picture so I could share some of you guys on the website. One 594 01:19:03.720 --> 01:19:06.760 day, it's okale dot com. Some female usher came up to me after 595 01:19:06.840 --> 01:19:12.199 the performer, came up to me after the performance was already over and told 596 01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:16.319 me to stop recording. Um, fine, it's their theater, it's their 597 01:19:16.439 --> 01:19:20.279 rules. I'm just a guest. I don't have my First Amendment right to 598 01:19:20.920 --> 01:19:26.880 take pictures on private property if they tell me no. But nonetheless I was 599 01:19:27.079 --> 01:19:29.560 I still was like, you know, she didn't. She kind of had 600 01:19:29.600 --> 01:19:30.359 to say it in that kind of rude way, and I'm just like, 601 01:19:30.479 --> 01:19:33.159 come on, you know. In fact, you know what else, there 602 01:19:33.239 --> 01:19:38.600 was actually an usher probably about fifteen ft away from me. She was kind 603 01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:42.079 of positioned at the front to kind of watch everybody and then that section, 604 01:19:42.439 --> 01:19:45.079 And that's what they're really doing here, they just watching to make sure nobody 605 01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:48.359 gets on their phone. Um, but she saw. I mean, I 606 01:19:48.399 --> 01:19:49.880 was like, yeah, you're at the end of the show, you don't 607 01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:53.880 worry about it. But this this girl came all the way from the back 608 01:19:53.960 --> 01:19:56.279 and this is a big theater, all the way up to me, and 609 01:19:56.359 --> 01:19:58.640 it was just like, you know, hey, turn that off. So 610 01:19:59.039 --> 01:20:03.880 what happens next is everybody else Almost immediately after that moment, after I put 611 01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:06.720 my phone away, everybody else in the audience just pulls out their phone and 612 01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:14.039 starts taking pictures and recording, and um, this power tripping usher immediately becomes 613 01:20:14.079 --> 01:20:16.680 overwhelmed and fades back to the back of the theater where she belongs. Um. 614 01:20:17.720 --> 01:20:20.800 So I don't think that's a policy at the Pantagis, but if it 615 01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:25.000 is, obviously you know it shouldn't be. Let people take pictures of the 616 01:20:25.039 --> 01:20:28.760 cast and they gather one last time when the performance is over and it's not 617 01:20:28.840 --> 01:20:32.800 on script anymore. Um, you know, come on, Uh. One 618 01:20:32.840 --> 01:20:36.680 of the little complaint about I guess most of my complaints are about staff unfortunately 619 01:20:36.760 --> 01:20:41.159 here, but they really do rush to get you out of the theater since 620 01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:45.119 it's over. You know, there was like, uh, about a minute 621 01:20:45.199 --> 01:20:47.119 or two after the performance, people are taking pictures in front of the stage, 622 01:20:47.640 --> 01:20:49.840 and then you know, the ashers come down to like, you know, 623 01:20:49.960 --> 01:20:54.600 the theater is now close. Everybody needs to leave immediately, blah blah 624 01:20:54.640 --> 01:20:57.560 blah, and uh, you know, okay, fine. You know, 625 01:20:57.640 --> 01:21:00.760 I took one picture of the empty stage and I go out to the lobby, 626 01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:03.600 and then about ten minutes later, they're calling for everybody to exit the 627 01:21:03.760 --> 01:21:08.560 entire theater and get back out on the street and people are trying to buy 628 01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:12.880 you know, souvenirs and everything else. Use the restroom one more time, 629 01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:15.840 and I'm just thinking, come on, guys, this is an S class 630 01:21:15.880 --> 01:21:18.000 theater. There's no need to rush the experience. We paid good money for 631 01:21:18.079 --> 01:21:21.399 this. Just you know, just let's take a few photos and enjoy the 632 01:21:21.479 --> 01:21:28.319 after theater, you know, experience and everything else. Um so, staff, 633 01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:30.520 staff, staff, you know, I don't know if you know. 634 01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:33.119 Most likely I'm assuming it's from higher management. It's making some of these policies, 635 01:21:33.199 --> 01:21:38.479 and maybe some of them are you know, a little over the top. 636 01:21:38.720 --> 01:21:44.359 But um, you know, this is a premium experience, so let's 637 01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:47.560 be you know, it's not like a Disneyland, right, it's rides over, 638 01:21:47.600 --> 01:21:51.960 get out, you know, it's it's uh, it's an experience, 639 01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:57.159 and I think people should have a chance to experience it completely and fully. 640 01:21:57.920 --> 01:22:00.680 Anyways, little gripes here and there, but for the most part I had 641 01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:06.079 a blast. Uh. And to move on. Here is Memory from Cats, 642 01:22:06.199 --> 01:22:13.439 that melancholy song that Grizzabella sings and eventually basically causes the entire tribe to 643 01:22:13.560 --> 01:22:19.199 remember her glorious past and plead for acceptance and and basically accept her again back 644 01:22:19.239 --> 01:22:24.600 into the tribe. Um. I guess this song is so good that everyone's 645 01:22:24.640 --> 01:22:27.880 like, oh wow, yeah, But I guess you know we should forgive 646 01:22:27.880 --> 01:22:30.840 her and bring her back in just for over one song. You be the 647 01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:34.399 judge if it's good enough. But it's considered the climax of the entire show 648 01:22:34.760 --> 01:22:40.000 and is to stand out hit for the entire Broadway show, having achieved mainstream 649 01:22:40.039 --> 01:22:45.039 success outside the production. Musicologist Jessica Sternfield even goes a step further, stating 650 01:22:45.800 --> 01:22:50.119 memory is, by some estimations, the most successful song ever from a musical. 651 01:22:50.920 --> 01:22:54.640 So on this scene, Grizzabella shows up for a third time. The 652 01:22:54.680 --> 01:22:58.279 first two times she's projected as I explained earlier and even made fun of by 653 01:22:58.319 --> 01:23:03.640 some of the cats. Um but she shows up a third time and basically 654 01:23:03.800 --> 01:23:06.479 one more time just ask, you know, please forgive me. And you 655 01:23:06.520 --> 01:23:11.079 know it used to be this great cat. I'm sorry whatever else in At 656 01:23:11.159 --> 01:23:14.760 one point halfway through her song, she just collapses to your knees, finally 657 01:23:14.800 --> 01:23:16.760 given up. I was like, okay, except that I'm done. You 658 01:23:16.840 --> 01:23:20.039 know, no one's gonna accept me. But that's when the youngest member of 659 01:23:20.079 --> 01:23:24.199 the tribe, Victoria, joins her in the song, moving the rest of 660 01:23:24.239 --> 01:23:28.479 the cats towards forgiveness and even more letting Grisabilla be chosen to go to the 661 01:23:28.560 --> 01:24:26.119 heavy side layer over the other cats. So here's memory like that? Or 662 01:24:26.520 --> 01:24:31.760 did you run just before? I don't the silence you feel you could catch 663 01:24:31.960 --> 01:24:42.399 from an analysis account and now well and come back to a different Jennico laugh 664 01:24:54.920 --> 01:26:16.920 yet ms tsht your and your you d are happy? Sis I it susan 665 01:26:17.199 --> 01:26:55.680 to REMI it's t s. There's Ally from SYS sit colste of the street 666 01:26:57.279 --> 01:27:35.439 fi a se So I've got what s songs I love to try to day? 667 01:27:39.439 --> 01:29:42.239 Yeah, so what time to so? M all right? So if 668 01:29:42.279 --> 01:29:45.000 you listen to this podcast long enough, you know I always add a little 669 01:29:45.079 --> 01:29:49.000 safety and security section at the end or towards the end. Um. The 670 01:29:49.079 --> 01:29:55.640 thing is, I think we've gone over in pretty great detail, um safety 671 01:29:55.680 --> 01:29:59.920 and security when it comes to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, specifically an episode 672 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:02.479 three of the One Dance So Cal podcast. So I'm not gonna harp on 673 01:30:02.560 --> 01:30:06.199 it too much, but to sum it up, there are vagrants here, 674 01:30:06.880 --> 01:30:13.720 and there's a lot and for reasons only politics can explain, l APD has 675 01:30:13.840 --> 01:30:16.880 taken a hands off approach to patrol of the streets here with uniformed officers. 676 01:30:17.720 --> 01:30:23.920 So that's not to say there's not undercover officers nearby or police aren't within striking 677 01:30:24.039 --> 01:30:28.119 distance to respond quickly. But as always, be aware your surroundings, even 678 01:30:28.199 --> 01:30:31.479 this heavily tourist area. UH, don't engage with vagrance. There's an army, 679 01:30:31.680 --> 01:30:36.399 a little army of people here in Los Angeles and endless nonprofits that are 680 01:30:36.479 --> 01:30:43.600 here to assist the homeless. Um. If you're gonna give money to some 681 01:30:43.760 --> 01:30:45.720 kind of homeless situation, don't give it directly to them. It's not going 682 01:30:45.760 --> 01:30:49.279 to help them. It's just not. In the fact, it's probably gonna 683 01:30:49.279 --> 01:30:51.600 make things worse. If you're gonna do that, you might as well. 684 01:30:53.239 --> 01:30:56.399 The best thing you can do is probably give money to a reputable homeless charity 685 01:30:57.800 --> 01:31:00.560 that's gonna their dollar is gonna go a lot farther than well, down to 686 01:31:00.600 --> 01:31:02.960 the liquor store. Um. That's just the reality of it. Whether you 687 01:31:03.039 --> 01:31:05.319 want to accept that or not, that's on you. Whether you want to 688 01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:09.840 give homeless um you know your harder money, that's on you. Take my 689 01:31:09.880 --> 01:31:14.840 advice or leave it. But the fact is a lot of these vagrants on 690 01:31:15.079 --> 01:31:19.239 on the Hollywood Walk of Fame or anywhere in Los Angeles or so cal are 691 01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:27.600 you. They're really severely A lot of them are really mentally ill, and 692 01:31:29.439 --> 01:31:33.319 a lot of them are hopelessly addicted to drugs and alcohol, sometimes both, 693 01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:40.479 and you don't know what state of mind they're in when you approach them or 694 01:31:40.520 --> 01:31:45.439 they come up to you. So things have happened here on the Hollywood Walk 695 01:31:45.439 --> 01:31:48.359 offe. People have been stabbed and murdered by vagrants on the Hollywood Walk Offee. 696 01:31:48.720 --> 01:31:54.840 Okay, So for your safety security, I do suggest that you don't 697 01:31:54.880 --> 01:31:57.000 engage with them, you don't give them money. You just move on, 698 01:31:57.880 --> 01:32:01.520 um and let the professional handle it. Good job they're doing, by the 699 01:32:01.560 --> 01:32:06.119 way, right, I know, but UM, take it or leave it. 700 01:32:06.239 --> 01:32:12.119 That's that's my advice, m from just from my opinion as well as 701 01:32:12.199 --> 01:32:15.800 my personal experience. UM. But in any case, the only other thing 702 01:32:15.840 --> 01:32:19.520 I will say about safety and security, specifically about the Pantagious theater itself, 703 01:32:20.680 --> 01:32:25.920 UM, is that it felt the test. There was a canine from a 704 01:32:25.960 --> 01:32:29.560 private security company at the front of Pantagious. I assume he was there to 705 01:32:29.560 --> 01:32:32.880 sniff out weapons, and I even pad the dog on the head and let's 706 01:32:32.960 --> 01:32:38.359 just say he failed miserably. And that's all I'm gonna say on that. 707 01:32:39.079 --> 01:32:42.880 So, moving on back to the theater, Grizabella, the glamour cat, 708 01:32:43.000 --> 01:32:45.119 having one over the jelical tried to let her back into the fold, is 709 01:32:45.319 --> 01:32:50.840 chosen by due to old Deuteronomy, to ascend to the heavy side layer. 710 01:32:51.600 --> 01:32:55.800 Now, it's never officially known what the heavy side layer is, but we 711 01:32:55.920 --> 01:32:59.239 know what's up past the Russell Hotel, which is a multi story hotel and 712 01:32:59.319 --> 01:33:01.920 cats, And we also know that in science and real life, the heavy 713 01:33:01.960 --> 01:33:06.720 side layer is an upper layer of the Earth's atmosphere. It's also interesting to 714 01:33:06.800 --> 01:33:12.560 note the translation and foreign performances of the word heavy side layer. In Japan, 715 01:33:12.640 --> 01:33:15.600 it's referred to as the heavens. In Paris, it's referred to as 716 01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:19.680 the feline spear. In China, it's referred to as the ninth layer of 717 01:33:19.720 --> 01:33:26.720 the sky. All that, I guess the best way to describe it, 718 01:33:26.720 --> 01:33:30.560 because again there's no official word on what exactly heavy side layer is, but 719 01:33:30.600 --> 01:33:33.239 the best way to describe it is kind of like a heaven light heaven like 720 01:33:33.399 --> 01:33:36.920 place of rebirth for cats. But in any case, here's the scene from 721 01:33:36.960 --> 01:34:31.760 Pantagis of Grizabella rising to the heavy side layer and its entirety kind lay hair 722 01:34:33.840 --> 01:37:01.439 to the main f So that's the sounds beside y t yeah, yeah, 723 01:37:20.359 --> 01:37:26.159 alright. So a couple of final thoughts here. I unapologetically love Cats, 724 01:37:26.680 --> 01:37:31.279 both the playful, warm blooded meal machine mammals and this production. I think 725 01:37:31.319 --> 01:37:35.960 you should give it a shot if you love Cats or Broadaway or both and 726 01:37:36.159 --> 01:37:41.000 you want to try something new that isn't the traditional Hollywood drama or stage production 727 01:37:41.079 --> 01:37:45.680 script Um. The poor recordings I played throughout this episode do not do it 728 01:37:45.800 --> 01:37:49.760 justice. The dancing and the acting and hearing it live and the acrobatics, 729 01:37:50.000 --> 01:37:54.600 especially with the live orchestra, is just one of those things you have to 730 01:37:54.640 --> 01:37:58.960 see. Throw away, completely, throw it out in the trash, put 731 01:37:59.000 --> 01:38:04.640 it down the blender that nine movie completely filled. Um to do any justice 732 01:38:04.640 --> 01:38:10.319 to Cats, and instead go see the stage production. It's so much better 733 01:38:10.560 --> 01:38:13.760 the way it was meant to be as envisioned by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Even 734 01:38:13.840 --> 01:38:16.800 Andrew Lloyd Webber has completely, you know, distance himself from the movie, 735 01:38:16.920 --> 01:38:21.039 saying, you know, he's disappointed everything else. And I think both people 736 01:38:21.079 --> 01:38:25.680 that have never seen Cats and fans of Cats are in the same boat, 737 01:38:27.279 --> 01:38:30.079 all right, So that's gonna do it for episode fourteen of the One Day 738 01:38:30.079 --> 01:38:33.279 at so Cal podcast. Per usual, here's your hint of what adventure awaits 739 01:38:33.319 --> 01:38:38.560 you next week on next week's episode. Well, I guess awaits me next 740 01:38:38.600 --> 01:38:43.720 week, but as always, um, hopefully it's your next adventure as well, 741 01:38:43.960 --> 01:38:47.199 and in piano fashion is always here's the hint. Where do you think 742 01:38:47.239 --> 01:40:01.880 I'm going next? Well, but now the the the the the the the ba