'Cats' in Contra Costa is the “Cat’s Meow”; ‘Totally True Story’ – “Happy and Delightful”; REAF show -- a ‘Knockout’! … Raises Bucks for CharityBuzzin' Lee Hartgravebyline‚ Nov. 21‚ 2007CATS GETS A MAKEOVER IN CONTRA COSTA: The Junkyard is gone. In its place is a delightful, colorful classroom that looks like something from “Babes in Arms.” To say that this version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is better than the original staging of the hit show, would not be an exaggeration. In the original the actors wore tights that had designs on them to make them look more catlike. I never thought that they looked like Cats, but more like aliens. The Willows Theatre has given this production a fun airy feeling to it. They’ve taken the dreariness out of it and made it a fun playhouse for those mischief minded cats. The classroom is a Cat’s dream house. There are all kinds of curvy and round things, besides every cats delight high places for the cats to lounge or jump on. |